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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The Bell Tolls for Thee" data-source="post: 131826656" data-attributes="member: 1812660">You know nothing of what you speak.  BLM leadership has stated openly they are Marxist.  BLM included in their manifest extraneous left leaning talking points like anti-Isreal demands.  BLM ignores that less unarmed black men were killed than white men in 2019.  BLM ignores that a white person is MORE likely to be shot unarmed by a police officer per police encounter than a black person.  BLM ignores that in 2020 less than 15 unarmed black men were killed by police.  Many of those were fighting at the time and at least one was using a car as a weapon.  BLM claims obviously justified uses of force such as the Bryant or Blake cases warrant massive protests that breed riotous behavior.  BLM believes in "anti-rascism" which does not mean the same thing as not being a racist.  It means being an activist for what BLM says you must be an activist for lest you be guilty of racism. If you are a white Appalachian male from a long line of generational poverty without a single college educated member you are still to acknowledge your privilege and take a back seat to a college educated, multi generational middle class or better "marginalized" group.  As the great thinker Ibram X Kendi writes in his book "How to be an anti-rascist" ... "The only cure for past discrimination is current discrimination."  Aka BLM believes people of certain skin colors regardless of whether their family has any direct ties to oppression should be able to negatively discriminate AND have systemic structures in government that enforce that discrimination against people with differing skin colors regardless of latter's personal or family ties to past oppressors.  The esteemed Kendi also postulates that where there is disparity, there must be racism.  He and BLM of course take exception to this rule if the disparity shows positive over representation of minorities such as sports or entertainment media.  BLM ignores that high rates of single motherhood results in poor outcomes for EVERY racial group in the US.  Two parent black households have a 7% chance of being below the poverty line while a single white mother has a 22% chance to be below the poverty line.  High rates of substance abuse results in poor outcomes for EVERY racial group.  Low respect for education and civic duty results in poor outcomes for EVERY racial group.  BLM ignores that behaviors of individuals as even affecting outcomes and just points 100% to "racism with the system"So here we are where a white, "educated" (aka indoctrinated) liberal such as yourself is calling me a racist for not supporting an organization that openly wants government power to give advantages and disadvantages to individuals based upon their race.  I'm advocating for a system that protects the ultimate minority which is the individual.  Each individual whether they be black, white, Hispanic, Asian, woman, gay, transgender, etc... or any combination there of.  A system that allows freedom of individuals to make personal choices and to either suffer the loss or reap the rewards of those choices.  A system that despite your claims of racism has allowed Asians and even black Nigerian immigrants to prosper more than whites.  A system where the day to day actions you take have more impact on your life than government enforced policies.  A system where Asians are dropped into the same bigotry and ghettos as other groups, but personal life decisions allow them to nearly universally rise out of that poverty over the generations despite having the same disadvantages.  A system that doesn't reward continued patterns of negative behavior by forcibly distributing the negative consequences of those behaviors amongst everyone thus breeding and subsidizing more of that negative behavior.  A system where the terrible decisions to embrace debauchery and substance abuse while eschewing civic duty and critical thinking results in negative outcomes.  A system that shows these things result I'm generational negative outcomes as it has in rural Appalachia just as much as the racially different inner cities.</blockquote>

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