Black Lives Matter Is Demanding Reparations And Legislation To Acknowledge The Effects Of Slavery

In case you weren’t already aware of how ridiculous #BlackLivesMatter is, there’s this.

According to that sourcelink, #BlackLivesMatter recently put forth six specific policy demands for “black power, freedom and justice.”

Black humanity and dignity requires black political will and power. In response to the sustained and increasingly visible violence against Black communities in the U.S. and globally, a collective of more than 50 organizations representing thousands of Black people from across the country have come together with renewed energy and purpose to articulate a common vision and agenda. We are a collective that centers and is rooted in Black communities, but we recognize we have a shared struggle with all oppressed people; collective liberation will be a product of all of our work.

Black power. Mhm. No word about the cultural rot destroying the inner cities. No mention of the deliberate slaughter of police officers. True unity? Pffffft. Divide, divide, divide. That’s what they do.

Anywho, #BlackLivesMatter has issued six different policy demands, and they’re positively ridiculous.

1. End The War On Black People

This includes ending the “criminalization and dehumanization of Black youth.” How do we do that? Easy! By ending capital punishment and the “war” on black immigrants, Black trans, queer and gender nonconforming people and ending the privatization of police. Duh!

2. Reparations

Yep. They demand them for “past and continuing harms.” It doesn’t matter that you’re not a racist and have never owned slaves. You owe the black community, because you exist.

3. Invest-divest

They want taxpayers to invest in the “education, health and safety of Black people, instead of investments in the criminalizing, caging, and harming of Black people.” How are we going to afford all that free stuff? Easy! By divesting from “exploitative forces including prisons, fossil fuels, police, surveillance and exploitative corporations.” Who needs a police force? Fossil fuels are dumb! Corporations are evil!

4. Economic Justice

They want black communities to have “collective ownership” of stuff. I’m pretty sure that’s code for socialism.

“Redistribution” of wealth. Yup. Socialism. For sure.

5. Community Control

They demand a world where “communities control the laws, institutions, and policies that are meant to serve us.” Also, Indigenous families must be respected. Because obviously.

Question– when will they start controlling the thugs in their own communities?

6. Political Power

They also demand “independent Black political power and Black self-determination in all areas of society.”

Oh, and deep in the details of those completely reasonable proposals, #BlackLivesMatter also demands legislation that would “acknowledge the effects of slavery.”

Marbre Stahly-Butts, who is part of the leadership team of the Movement for Black Lives Policy Table, which worked on the demands, said: “On both sides of aisle, the candidates have really failed to address the demands and the concerns of our people. So this was less about this specific political moment and this election, and more about how do we actually start to plant and cultivate the seeds of transformation of this country that go beyond individual candidates.”

No. This is absolutely about “this specific political moment.” This is all politics. They can pretend all day that this goes beyond it, but we know it doesn’t. This is about one thing: Political power. It’s about the worsening the racial divide and making the entire conversation about something it’s not. None of their proposals would fix anything. They don’t encourage unity. They encourage division. Not to mention that the proposals aren’t FAIR to the rest of the population. Seriously. “Free” college for black people but no one else? Who do these people think they are?

The groups worked on creating the demands for a year before making their demands known on Monday. They now plan to start local campaigns aimed at pushing for changes in law enforcement and community programs in cities across the country.

“We seek radical transformation, not reactionary reform,” Michaela Brown, communications director of Baltimore Bloc, another participating group, said in a statement. “As the 2016 election continues, this platform provides us with a way to intervene with an agenda that resists state and corporate power, an opportunity to implement policies that truly value the safety and humanity of black lives, and an overall means to hold elected leaders accountable.”

What about holding individuals accountable for their behaviors? #BlackLivesMatter agitators ignore the toxic culture causing these problems in the first place. In fact, they promote it. They’d rather yell at white people and try to guilt us into decriminalizing their crappy behaviors. They’d rather have us pay for their crap and call us racists when we tell them where to shove their proposals.

I don’t care. They’re ridiculous. You can’t preach about “equality” and demand special treatment at the same time. It doesn’t work that way.