What makes them racist exactly? I respect everyone right to protest, to an extent. The way I see it , if you wanna make a difference violence is NOT the answer. Stopping traffic, burning flags, looting, ect. Is not going to get your voice heard. People now days give up to easy, stand on Capital Hill and make your VOICE heard, but it won't happen overnight, it will take months, maybe even years. At the point when someone is watching the news and people are saying "Damn, their still standing out there." That's when you'll be heard, that's when people will actually respect your movement.

ZachArts wrote What makes them racist exactly? I respect everyone right to protest, to an extent. The way I see it , if you wanna make a difference violence is NOT the answer. Stopping traffic, burning flags, looting, ect. Is not going to get your voice heard. People now days give up to easy, stand on Capital Hill and make your VOICE heard, but it won't happen overnight, it will take months, maybe even years. At the point when someone is watching the news and people are saying "Damn, their still standing out there." That's when you'll be heard, that's when people will actually respect your movement.

It's difficult to pin any single belief on the BLM movement because they are leaderless.
You can only say with certainty that - aside from the core belief that less innocent black people should be killed by police - some people in the movement believe 'x.'"

For example, some people in the movement are racist by any dictionary definition of racism. They say things like, "Kill all white people" and I even saw one recently where they said, "Any of you greasy haired white kids feel like assassinating Trump?"
They have attacked white people who have been caught up in their protests simply because they are white.
These things are blatantly racist. If I were to say, "Kill all black people" I would be lambasted into social oblivion and almost certainly banned off whatever platform I said it on.

These people believe that racism is about power and that because white people have more privilege in society they have more power.
Their conclusion is that black people cannot be racist because black people don't have a position of authority over white people.

This is patently absurd considering the only real metric of privilege is money.
Money is the only thing which holds absolute power over everyone. You find no homeless people in mansions, you find no rich people in soup kitchens, but you do find white people, black people, asian people, hispanic people, men, women, etc. in both of those places.

So yes, some of them are racist but they don't realize it and if they do realize it then they don't care.
The question is simply to what degree is the entire movement racist and as far as I know no polling data has been done on BLM supporters to find their specific views.

This is somewhat true, they only come out when its white on black violence, but black on black and black on white is ok. If black lives really mattered they would care about black on black violence too. They just want to find a way to put race on something

I never understood the whole thing. I mean, first and foremost, don't all lives matter? The blacks fought for how long to be included with whites and other races, and now you want to exclude yourselves again? Also, if I call someone black (for example someone asks me who to talk to and I say "the black guy"), I'm considered racist because it's not politically correct, instead we are supposed to say African-American.

Black Lives Matter is not a racist group. The movement isn't even a movement created to hate against any other races. It's to uplift black people.

Who and what you are talking about and have seen are the extremist of the group who are racist and who are complete idiots.
Every social movement is ruined by these people,the same happens with feminism and femi-nazi's or whatever they are called.

I agree though the extremists of the groups are complete idiots and are causing damage for no reason.
Causing destruction won't help in anyway

Acne wrote Black Lives Matter is not a racist group. The movement isn't even a movement created to hate against any other races. It's to uplift black people.

Who and what you are talking about and have seen are the extremist of the group who are racist and who are complete idiots.
Every social movement is ruined by these people,the same happens with feminism and femi-nazi's or whatever they are called.

I agree though the extremists of the groups are complete idiots and are causing damage for no reason.
Causing destruction won't help in anyway

yeah I agree

002 wrote I never understood the whole thing. I mean, first and foremost, don't all lives matter? The blacks fought for how long to be included with whites and other races, and now you want to exclude yourselves again? Also, if I call someone black (for example someone asks me who to talk to and I say "the black guy"), I'm considered racist because it's not politically correct, instead we are supposed to say African-American.

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If a white person says black, its racist. If a black person says white, its ok. Complete double standard

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002 wrote I never understood the whole thing. I mean, first and foremost, don't all lives matter? The blacks fought for how long to be included with whites and other races, and now you want to exclude yourselves again? Also, if I call someone black (for example someone asks me who to talk to and I say "the black guy"), I'm considered racist because it's not politically correct, instead we are supposed to say African-American.

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If a white person says black, its racist. If a black person says white, its ok. Complete double standard

Black people don't get offended when you call them black lmao I've never seen a black person get mad at that

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002 wrote I never understood the whole thing. I mean, first and foremost, don't all lives matter? The blacks fought for how long to be included with whites and other races, and now you want to exclude yourselves again? Also, if I call someone black (for example someone asks me who to talk to and I say "the black guy"), I'm considered racist because it's not politically correct, instead we are supposed to say African-American.

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If a white person says black, its racist. If a black person says white, its ok. Complete double standard

Black people don't get offended when you call them black lmao I've never seen a black person get mad at that

you must not get out enough then. or live where alot of black people live