I think the problem with social media is it is too easy to just assume an entire community agrees with everything a self proclaimed voice of the community says.


I'm a white male but have a variety of black friends and it makes me happy to see that none of those friends support Black Lives Matter as an organization.  They support the idea that the system hasn't exactly helped their community but they don't want to go around shooting cops because of it.  They aren't asking for reparations for something that happened to their ancestors 150+ years ago.  Mainly they are looking for the same opportunities as everyone else.


A crappy thing happened in baton rouge.  Police felt the need to shoot a guy.  So then 3 baton rouge officers get killed.  Now fast forward to the flooding thats been happening, I hate to say it but as awful as the flood is it has done more to repair that community than anything.  Cops, whites, blacks all working together to find and rescue people in the flood.  Then Black Lives Matter comes to protest the cops instead of helping the flood victims.


I'm all for civil rights and movements to protect those rights, but to me that isn't what BLM is.  They just appear to be a bunch of bullies who then cry woah is me, there is no accountability and if something doesn't fit the exact narrative they want it isn't used.


Marin Luther King Jr.,  Muhammad Ali, Joe Louis, Jackie Robinson, George Washington Carver.  These are all men to be admired they should be the face of any movement not a couple of criminals who got killed as the result of their actions.  


I would really like to see black people come together in a more positive MLK jr. style movement that focuses on rebuilding their broken communities from within.

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