Black Lives Matter—Do You Agree With Their Philosophy?

by minimus 246 Replies latest jw friends

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  Anna Marina

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFZX6tmLrP8

  Is it really about skin colour? Or what's in your heart, what's in your head and how you act?
  
  (Colossians 3:9-11) . . .Strip off the old personality with its practices, and clothe yourselves with the new [personality], which through accurate knowledge is being made new according to the image of the One who created it, where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, foreigner, Scythian, slave, freeman, but Christ is all things and in all.
  
  (Luke 6:43-45) “For there is not a fine tree producing rotten fruit; again there is not a rotten tree producing fine fruit. For each tree is known by its own fruit. For example, people do not gather figs from thorns, nor do they cut grapes off a thornbush. A good man brings forth good out of the good treasure of his heart, but a wicked man brings forth what is wicked out of his wicked [treasure]; for out of the heart’s abundance his mouth speaks.
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  Sad-u-see

  I love the people on here who are using affirmative action laws, (that I don't agree with btw), that were created by white politicians to justify their hatred of black people. This one guy wants a break for pretty crimes, and I agree he should catch a break for youthful mistakes, but at the same time we know that black men don't generally get those breaks. Smoking weed is a college tradition, being a stoner is a joke. But black men have gotten long sentences just for having weed and some people use smoking weed to justify the deaths of black men. Mafia movies romanticize organized crime that costs citizens billions of dollars through corruption and Mob bosses are seen as cool. But black people are seen as dangerous thugs while committing relatively petty crimes like using a counterfeit bill.
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  Biahi

  I passed a car in my neighborhood, in the window was a handmade sign which read, “All lives don’t matter until black lives matter”. Wow
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  stillMS

  it's an old "Divide et impera" ("Divide and conquer") agenda.

  The moment you start dividing people to categories (black/red/white/rich/poor/atheists/muslims/christians, etc etc), you're already in this game, seeding plants of hatred and violence. Whichever side you take.
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  coalize

  “All lives don’t matter until black lives matter”.

  It's pure logic. If black lives don't matter, then all lives don't matter!
  
  
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  stillMS

  Kneeling down, humiliating, confusing the law enforcement and the army is a way to prepare your country to surrender/break.

  It has all started with the same BS here, in Ukraine, in 2014 ('antifascists' slash terrorists and looters, and propaganda brainwashed civilians harassing their own army - preparing way for the Russian machinery and troops).
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  Giordano

  The WT Society....... is proud of having 36 to 37% black members or members of color but makes sure those members are not often part of the Bethel family and seldom Elders.We have had just one black brother on the GB....... for ever.

  Before Civil rights became the law of the land........ in the USA JW's kept separate from the black brothers and sisters in the South.

  They called each other brothers and sisters but they kept their distance.

  Racism is racism... it's easy to see.
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  Anony Mous

  Okay for the unbeliever about BLM/Antifa being a racist cult:

  https://www.newsbreak.com/news/0PEMrEUB/its-a-cult-thousands-of-whites-grovel-in-front-of-blacks-begging-for-forgiveness-video

  https://www.newsbreak.com/news/0PEFpYoy/black-lives-matter-if-youre-white-pass-the-mic

  https://thewitnessbcc.com/pass-mic-white-ally/

  BLM and Antifa are working together:

  https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/7xqjv9/neo-nazis-are-giving-black-lives-matter-and-antifa-a-reason-to-work-together

  BLM telling white people to leave a University diversity center:

  https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-51506733

  As to your other points:

  - BLM was started in response to the killing of Trayvon Martin, not sure why you are implying he had been lynched but the killing was adjudicated in court and found legitimate and acted in self-defense. Trayvon Martin was yet another criminal. Rosa Parks wasn't. Dr. Martin Luther King had more than one opportunity to build his case but at least he waited for someone that was morally impeccable to build his case around.

  - KKK is considered a hate group and a terrorist organization. Unless the Ku Klux Act of 1871 was recently repealed.

  - Per Wikipedia: That night was a particularly violent in St. Louis, with 4 police officers shot and 55 businesses burglarized or damaged amid the Black Lives Matter and George Floyd protests.

  Unless you are going to make a no true scotsmen argument, BLM/Antifa was responsible for organizing the protests and the protestors, they are responsible for inciting violence during these protests, they are the ones that delivered bricks and t-shirts and banners. If you say showing up like this: https://d.newsweek.com/en/full/1082058/antifa-portland.jpg is planning a peaceful protest, then you're delusional.
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  Anna Marina

  Civil Rights

  Human Rights

  The Rights of Man

  The are all slightly different but I understand Civil Rights as referring to a city.
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  Simon

  Black Lives Matter is a movement within the black community that advocates for the human rights and equal treatment of black people.

  Can you point to any rights they don't have or way they are not treated equally?

  BLM is a human rights group that wants to put an end to cops getting away with things like this ...

  Then why the "black" part? Why be exclusionary and then demand support and accuse people of racism if they don't give it?

  But all lives don't seem to be in immediate danger of being turned into a piece of Swiss cheese in front of their loved ones just for reaching for a wallet.

  Again, this doesn't just happen to black people, why does BLM claim it does?. There are worse examples. Making it a "black" issue is misleading and unsupported by evidence.