Current Events > D.C. Woman calls BLM "a joke"

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A woman who immigrated from Africa, now a D.C. resident, chides protesters for being hypocrites; calling their use of Black Lives Matter a joke. She goes on to criticize that BLM is never there when blacks kill other blacks in places like Chicago, saying "if black lives matter, they should matter all the time", not just when a white person kills a black person. She goes on to refute the idea she's oppressed, stating she is black and free, while calling the protestors lazy, not oppressed.

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

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She's an idiot

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runuts27 posted...

She's an idiot

Racist

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the protesters didn't know how to deal with her. most were just silent until they started marching at the end. >__>

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Well since she's from Africa is she an Africa African?

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Stupid woman

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Paid operative.

What about crime in Nigeria? Boko Haram?

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This idea that BLM doesn't care about Chicago is totallh false.

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I saw that she got interviewed by Fox News.
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She's not wrong.

I know some users have posted evidence that there are protests for black on black violence but its never as big nor is it associated with BLM.

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Random person said thing

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I find it funny that a white American woman is trying to tell an immigrant black woman how she should think about things.

TheRealDill2000 posted...

I saw that she got interviewed by Fox News.

She's a paid operative. It pays well to be a bootlick

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SapphireClassic posted...

She's not wrong.

I know some users have posted evidence that there are protests for black on black violence but its never as big nor is it associated with BLM.

Almost like we hold cops to a higher standard...

TwigsthePnoDude posted...

This idea that BLM doesn't care about Chicago is totallh false.

is it? do they actually organize and try to raise awareness/make a change when it comes to chicago?

legitimately asking btw. i haven't seen blm being covered in the media for a long time.

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African maid/wife of a local racist.

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2 different issues and one has far more over head and control than the other

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I can kind of see it both ways. Police injustice is a major social issue, so there's no particular reason a group can't make that their main cause. Proportionally, police related deaths are an infinitesimal amount compared to the overall deaths, so the proportional reaction can be seen as being off.

lolife67 posted...

Almost like we hold cops to a higher standard...

True, and the bad cops should be punished more than they are, some even aren't which I agree is madness.

That said, it shouldn't be the bigger issue here, all criminals are bad.

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nemu posted...

I can kind of see it both ways. Police injustice is a major social issue, so there's no particular reason a group can't make that their main cause. Proportionally, police related deaths are an infinitesimal amount compared to the overall deaths, so the proportional reaction can be seen as being off.

It's not just deaths by police, it's police misconduct in general. This has been going on for generations against black people in this country.

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It wouldn't matter if they're hypocrits or not. Their message is still correct.

If a priest tells folks not to harm children and it turns out he's a child abuser, he's still not wrong on his message of not harming kids. He's a piece of shit, but yhe message is still correct.

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Lmao, criminals are criminals no matter the race and innocent black people suffer under racism and at the hands of police.


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SHOCKED to see the typical right wing trolls here saying the woman is right

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she played the chicago deflection card in less than 20 seconds

does she expect to be taken seriously

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I don't get the "Why don't they talk about black on black violence!" talking point.

1. That's not a retort to systemic racism. It's like if someone goes "Just just crashed into my car and broke the engine" and you go "Yeah well what about those cranes in Japan that broke down."

Yeah what about them?

2. They do. There are vigils and gatherings and fundraisers and charities and shit doing this all the time. BLM like them are not are always on the ground for it. It just gets mimimal news coverage
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Black people who kill each other in Chicago dont do it because they are black.

Cops who brutalize and murder black people DO do it because they are black.

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SapphireClassic posted...

She's not wrong.

I know some users have posted evidence that there are protests for black on black violence but its never as big nor is it associated with BLM.

The Million Man March was the biggest march about Black on Black crime. Y'all just don't listen
https://youtu.be/ol3BIfAKqPI

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I wonder what her motive w--

TheRealDill2000 posted...

I saw that she got interviewed by Fox News.

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White people kill white people and Black people kill blacks due to proximity

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Owens is gonna be pissed when this woman is identified and immediately brought onto media shows over her

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It's just another "ignore this plight and look at this plight instead" stance.

Yes, it's an issue, but police brutality is one that can hopefully be more easily changed than crime.

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No news outlet would cover the black community helping the black community. White people don't care enough for it to get the views. If you don't think it's happening, it's because you're nowhere to be found when it's happening.

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ImAMarvel posted...

It's not really off the mark that maybe after we win the fight against police brutality, we'll start protesting en masse against black on black crime again too. That shit was only 25 years ago.

The next step is Reparations. There'd be no need for petty crimes if people had the resources due to them in the first place

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Lost_All_Senses posted...

No news outlet would cover the black community helping the black community. White people don't care enough to get the views. If you don't think it's happening, it's because you're nowhere to be found when it's happening.

Pretty much.

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Lost_All_Senses posted...

No news outlet would cover the black community helping the black community. White people don't care enough to get the views. If you don't think it's happening, it's because you're nowhere to be found when it's happening.

Right there are plenty of Self Improvement organizations in the Black community. But the media doesn't show it nearly as much

http://www.economicblueprint.org/


The NOI helped squash gang beefs between Mexican gangs and the Crips in LA

This organization helps stop Gang violence and is actually effective in Brooklyn


They do exist and people are working around the clock. The white woman was correct and tried to the lady in the first video

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ImAMarvel posted...

Oh shit, that's a good point too. With most of the Democratic nominees for the 2020 election supporting reparations, I really think they're probably inevitable by this point, though idk if ol' Biden will actually bother with them. I don't even know if I want him to support them just because I feel like he'd half-ass the shit out of it. But it's fucking crazy how America has awarded reparations to Japanese-Americans and not African-Americans, no offense to the former.

Because the Japanese Americans that were affected by the war were still alive, and the funds were part of the war recovery effort. Doing reparations now would be political suicide. "Tax race X and give to race Y" is extremely, extremely racist and I shouldn't have to even tell you that.

Funkydog posted...

It's just another "ignore this plight and look at this plight instead" stance.

Yes, it's an issue, but police brutality is one that can hopefully be more easily changed than crime.

Also crime has dropped by a massive amount since the peak of the early 90s
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Annihilated posted...

Tax race X and give to race Y" is extremely, extremely racist and I shouldn't have to even tell you that.

There's no pool of white people's tax money. Everybody gets taxed.
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ImAMarvel posted...

That's fucking horseshit, if anyone would be taxed the most, it'd be white Americans and they're the ones who benefited the most, by far, from slavery. I don't think that's racist in the least, to ask for everyone in America to chip in to pay blacks what they're owed.

Less than 1% of white Americans are descendants of slave owners. Most are immigrants. Everyone alive today has equal opportunity under the law, no one is "owed" anything.

Antifar posted...

There's no pool of white people's tax money. Everybody gets taxed.

You're splitting hairs. Only one race is the beneficiary in the transaction, which means the transaction is racist. Doesn't even matter if they're rich or poor, they still get the money because of the racist government.

She's correct.

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less "reparations to black people", more "giving money to poor areas in general to help stabilize & elevate them"

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Annihilated posted...

Because the Japanese Americans that were affected by the war were still alive, and the funds were part of the war recovery effort. Doing reparations now would be political suicide. "Tax race X and give to race Y" is extremely, extremely racist and I shouldn't have to even tell you that.

The state is a contiguous entity. Claims against it don't expire. Just a few days ago the last Civil War pension was just paid out. Reparations isn't just about slavery but Jim Crow and the years of inequality. From the early 1900s to now Blacks lost 10+ million acres of land due to violent mob attacks forcing people to migrate from the South to the North. All of that has an impact. It would be for Black Wall Street. It would be for the MOVE bombing. (In 1985 Philadelphia bombed a Black community movement that focused on repatriation back to Africa) . It's for all our assassinated Civil Rights leaders. Martin Luther King. Malcolm X etc.

Reparations isn't stealing anything from anyone. Its giving us back what we rightfully our owed. And with it we can build communities for ourselves where we wouldn't need welfare, or any police from the main society, we could do it all for ourselves.

Statements show that some Americans care more about taxes than our lives and freedom. Tax money goes to Israel, the EU NATO etc. And nobody complained about it. The Marshall plan rebuilt Europe after WW2. Our people fought in that war. (My grandfather did). Europe for rebuilt. Japan got rebuilt, but after all the damage done to us people still tell us suck it up you get nothing. That's disrespectful and not right at all.


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I can speak to this a little. Growing up elsewhere, it took me years to really understand racism here in America. She must not understand.

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Antifar posted...

There's no pool of white people's tax money. Everybody gets taxed.

Fact. Black people would actually be paying for their own Reparations when you think about it.

We didnt complain when Europe and Japan was rebuilt with our tax dollars. Why cant we be rebuilt when we are living in America?

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