Dear Founders of Black Lives Matter,
Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, Opal Temeti, and anyone else who associates themselves with this movement, you should be ashamed of yourselves! How dare you stand on a platform of equality and unity while playing the victim and being racist hypocrites! There are several things wrong with the Black Lives Matter Movement. Firstly,you're message is completely misguided, Roland G. Fryer Jr., a Harvard Professor, has published a study (find the link to the pdf. at the bottom) that examined 1,332 officer-involved shootings and found some pretty interesting information.
1.) Blacks and whites were equally likely to be carrying a weapon when involved in police shootings
This premise directly undermines everything Black Lives Matter claims--systemic bias when it comes to a police officer's use of deadly force. Fryer found they were equally likely to be carrying a weapon and seemed to be shocked by the results.
2.) Blacks are 20% less likely to be fired on
Fryer looked at instances where lethal force may have been justifiable--fleeing the scene, resisting arrest, and assaulting an officer. He found that blacks were about 22%-24% likely to be fired at when it would be justifiable to shoot.
3.) Police Officers' accounts are not largely biased
Fryer found that concerns for the reliability of police accounts were largely unfounded and largely just mythology.
When you take in to account how often blacks commit crime you find that the Black Lives Matter conspiracy theory is largely a myth. For example, in 2015, 50% of police shooting victims were white--26% were black. The usual argument is that this is disproportionate when you consider that black people make up only 15-20% of the population. However, as Heather MacDonald points out, black people were charged with 62% of all robberies, 57% of murders, 45% of assaults in 75 of the largest counties in the U.S. The real crime is ignoring the real problem black-on-black violence as MacDonald says,
"The Black Lives Matter movement has been stunningly successful in changing the subject from the realities of violent crime. The world knows the name of Michael Brown but not Tyshawn Lee, a 9-year-old black child lured into an alley and killed by gang members in Chicago last fall. Tyshawn was one of dozens of black children gunned down in America last year...Those were black lives that mattered, and it is a scandal that outrage is heaped less on the dysfunctional culture that produces so many victims than on the police officers who try to protect them."
The next problem with the Black Lives Matter Movement is that it and its founders are racist, destructive in nature, and do not truly want change. In every "protest"-- I can't believe I used the word protest because its really a riot. When you are burning down businesses, looting stores, smashing cars, ambushing and attacking Police Officers, and halting traffic in a way that an Ambulance cannot get to the hospital with a patient in the back you are not protesting you are rioting, showing how hypocritical and how counter-productive you are! The violence that stems from the Black Lives Matter Movement is not surprising when you take into account that the letters BLM actually stand for Burn, Loot, and Murder. It also isn't surprising when you take into account that one of the influences of the Black Lives Matter Movement is Assata Shakur who is a member of the Black Panther Party and Black Liberation Army. In May 1973 Shakur was involved in a shootout on the New Jersey Turnpike and is accused of killing one officer and assaulting another. In 1977, Shakur was charged with murder, attempted murder, armed robbery, bank robbery, and kidnapping--however she was dismissed of three charges and acquitted of three charges but was later convicted for first-degree murder for the killing of a New Jersey Trooper during the shootout and was convicted of seven other charges related to the New Jersey Turnpike shootout. Shakur escaped prison and fled to Cuba being placed on the FBI's Most Wanted Terrorist List.
The last thing I would like to address is the utter racism that spews from the Black Lives Matter Movement. Frequently at these riots you will hear chants like "What do we want? Dead Cops. When do we want it? Now!" or "Pigs in a blanket, fry em' like bacon". Calling for the death of cops and according to rioters the death white people. In Charlotte alone I witnessed on my t.v. the utter racism and the most despicable acts. At one point rioters kicked down a homeless man-- justification, he has "white privilege". Rioters knocked reporters down, threw rocks into highway traffic damaging cars, completely beat white men and women to near death, and at on point attempted to throw photographers into fires. The worst thing I saw was incredibly graphic (if you have sensitive ears I would skip this part), rioters doused white people in gasoline and lit them on fire...
You could hear the individual screams from these victims of racism and unjustified violence. The Black Lives Matter Movement is solely responsible for the crimes against innocent American lives. It really shows how upside down our Country is when we call thugs "heroes" and police officers who protect and serve us "villains"
If things keep going the way they are, we are on a path to the second Reconstruction Era.
Roland G. Fryer's Analysis: http://www.nber.org/papers/w22399.pdf
Heather MacDonald's Column: http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-myths-of-black-liv...
