I also am pro human rights. Very much so. And yet I think that BLM does it all wrong, and all that will come out of their protests are more police, more government, more bigotry against the blacks, and more slums.
I suspect that there are a lot of people like myself.
BLM is showing us uncomfortable reality, which is how poor black people are treated in the US. For anyone slightly better off, all this pain, anger and the violence which stems from it is difficult to process and can lead us to cognitive dissonance to avoid these feelings. "they're doing it wrong! BLM is violent thugs and terrorists, if they wanted results they would be 100% peaceful. They're working against these causes!" is that cognitive dissonance.
Turns out, human rights activists have been peaceful. For decades. It did nothing. Even filmed in broad daylight, with people begging him to stop and with the whole world watching it on the internet, a police officer can still murder a black man and get away with it. Which they would have without the protests. Now, each time that happens, there will be a wave of righteous anger through the country. Until that doesn't happens anymore I hope.
MLK's protests weren't peaceful. There was the same stuff happening, looting, violents elements, confrontations with white nationalists, and they've changed things, tremendously for the better. I hope the same happens with BLM.
I also am pro human rights. Very much so. And yet I think that BLM does it all wrong, and all that will come out of their protests are more police, more government, more bigotry against the blacks, and more slums.
I suspect that there are a lot of people like myself.