#BlackLivesMatter

An administrative law judge has ruled that The Home Depot could prevent employees from wearing Black Lives Matter imagery on the clothing supplied by the company.

LeBron James, who has a history of whining about racism — even possibly fake racism — was unusually quiet after a white teen was beaten to death at his I Promise School in his hometown of Akron, Ohio. Now we may know why he was so tight-lipped about the gruesome killing. The three men arrested for murder are black, and that doesn’t fly with the narrative LeBron James has been pushing for years.

Mayor’s office confirms authenticity of body camera still frame from KCPD shooting

WTF??? – Family: 5 shot during funeral at cemetery in Wisconsin

The pair of radical lawyers who torched an empty NYPD vehicle amid protests in Brooklyn over the police killing of George Floyd pleaded guilty Thursday to conspiracy charges in a deal struck with federal prosecutors.

The firebug attorneys, Colinford Mattis and Urooj Rahman, each copped to counts of conspiracy to commit arson and to make and possess an unregistered destructive device for firebombing the police van in Brooklyn on May 30, 2020, a spokesperson for the US Attorney’s Office said.

Major corporations that made a show out of cutting checks to the national Black Lives Matter group in the aftermath of George Floyd’s police killing in May 2020 now have nothing to say about the charity’s alleged self-dealing.

Seventeen corporations that publicly committed at least $100,000 to Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation in the days following Floyd’s killing either declined to comment or did not respond to inquiries from the Washington Examiner asking if they approved of the charity’s use of their donations to purchase a $6 million mansion in Los Angeles secretly and award lucrative contracts to the family members and friends of BLM co-founder Patrisse Cullors, who had sole control over the charity until May 2021.

The issue isn’t school shootings, it’s crime.

After the Uvalde school shooting, the CDC and the media are pushing a misleading claim that, “firearms were the leading cause of death for kids one and older for the first time in 2020.”

There’s no statistical reason for the CDC to group infants and teenagers together into the same category except to push a gun control agenda. 1-year-olds and 19-year-olds don’t have much in common when it comes to gun violence. And when the numbers are broken down, teenagers have catastrophically high murder and suicide rates, while babies are much less affected.

On Feb. 26, 2012, a 17-year old African-American was shot to death in Sanford, Florida, triggering a wave of civil rights activism. Armed with a can of pop and a bag of Skittles, Trayvon Martin was gunned down by George Zimmerman, a Neighbourhood Watch volunteer who claimed he felt threatened by the unarmed teenager. Following Zimmerman’s acquittal, thousands of Americans protested the injustice. Although social activism was already prominent in the African-American community, this event propelled it onto the world stage. From there, the Black Lives Matter movement was born.

Sasha Johnson and the black lives that don’t matter

‘There’s been a wall of silence’, said one local campaigner I spoke to at a vigil dedicated to 28-year-old anti-racism campaigner Sasha Johnson. A year ago, on 23 May 2021, Johnson was brutally shot in the head. The vigil was held earlier this week in London’s Denmark Hill, a short walk from the hospital where Johnson continues to lie in a critical condition, with what have been described as ‘catastrophic and permanent’ injuries to the head. She has two children under the age of 13.

The vigil was small, attended by about 30 people, mainly old-school black-power and black-nationalist groups, such as the Nation of Islam. One group was notably absent: Black Lives Matter.

Ninety children have been shot this year alone in Chicago. Over 25 of them have been killed. It’s tough for a lot of these mothers, especially the single mothers who are trying to do the best they can to raise their children in such a violent environment. The stress these families are experiencing is overwhelming.

Guns are the leading cause of death among children, new CDC statistics show. But while the horrific massacre in a Texas elementary school rightly outrages the nation, such mass shootings are not the primary reason for that grim statistic.

Most young people killed by guns are shot in gang violence or other crime — which has only gotten worse since the George Floyd race riots and their long anarchic aftermath.

Homicides of youth between the ages of 10 and 17 rose 47% in 2020. That 47% increase far outpaced the record-breaking 29% spike in post-Floyd homicides across all age groups in 2020.

The media is pushing this misleading CDC press release because it fits the gun control agenda after the latest school shooting.

Firearms were the leading cause of death for kids one and older for the first time in 2020, the most recent year for which CDC data is available.

Why it matters: The firearm death rate among children is steadily rising, as more kids are involved in gun-related homicides like Tuesday’s mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas, as well as suicides and accidents.

Yeah, no.

A slogan? A movement? Or a scam?

It’s hard not to admire Patrisse Cullors, the co-founder of the Black Lives Matter foundation. Under fire over yet another set of revelations that suggest her world-famous anti-racism organization is in fact little more than a racket, she has admitted she made “mistakes.”

But what else could a poor girl do? An organization of BLM’s size was simply not equipped for the millions upon millions of dollars it suddenly received in the summer of 2020, when the locked-down world went crazy over the death of George Floyd.

It was all “white guilt money,” says Cullors. She’s absolutely right, of course. In those mad days of 2020, as protests spread and cities burned, nervous corporations threw fortunes at any “anti-racism” charity they could find. For instance, Airbnb split $500,000 between BLM and the more old-school National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. The luggage brand Away gave away a total of $700,000 to BLM, the NAACP legal defense fund, Color of Change and other groups.

Black Lives Matter donated $200,000 during its 2021 fiscal year to a radical Chicago group run by a defund the police activist who has repeatedly referred to cops as ‘pigs’ and has expressed delight over unrest against officers.

Richard Wallace, who heads black activist group Equity and Transformation (EAT), organized several anti-police protests, has called officers ‘b*****ds,’ and has shown support for late rapper Tupac Shakur’s aunt Assata Shakur – a terrorist wanted by the FBI for the murder of a New Jersey State Trooper.

He also believes that African-Americans are entitled reparations due to centuries of slavery and white oppression.

His killing saved America’s elite institutions

Was violent chaos inevitable in America in the summer of 2020? If it was not inevitable, it had at least been predicted. In a 2017 review of Bryan Burrough’s Days of Rage, an account of left-wing terrorism in the Seventies, the historian Peter Turchin suggested that a new era of civil disorder was on the verge of consuming America.

Writing in the early months of the Trump administration, he prophesied that at any moment, a “symbolic event” involving a “sacrificial victim” might ignite the powder keg of political violence and plunge the nation into bloody strife. Turchin cited the 1969 FBI murder of Fred Hampton, which inspired the insurgency narrated in Burrough’s book, and the 2011 self-immolation of the Tunisian fruit vendor Mohammed Bouazizi, credited with setting off the Arab Spring, as examples of such an event.