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I support BLM at the concept level.

Black people have been abused and discriminated against for centuries in the US. People act like its a thing of the past but its not

Both the effects of the past live on and racists still exist. Especially in the police and justice system.

The problem is BLM never had any official leaders or agendas. Which you might think is a strength since it means BLM can never go away but its actually a weakness because it means the movement becomes aimless and fragmented

You get the rioters,
You get the Grifters (enough BLM grifters to rival Trump)
And you get the lunatics who are calling for the return of segregation or tax immunity for black people.

And since BLM has no actual official voice or agenda, these guys have as much legitimacy to reflect the movement as anyone else

So now instead of talking about cops senselessly killing black guys you're instead talking about riots or taxes or gangs in Chicago or segregation or whatever and the entire conversation focus has shifted away from the point.

Compare to the Civil Rights Movement. It had very clear spokespeople and very clear tangible goals

You can try to derail it (and people certainty tried) but you couldn't muddy the clear goals

The civil rights movement can win, (and did)

What can the BLM movement do to "win"? what change can happen in policy to make the movement end? There is none, its too disparate

The exact same thing happened to Occupy Wall Street for anyone who remembers that

A HUGE outpouring of passion and energy for a good but vague cause but no clear plan or agenda

That's the weakness