Sunday, June 21, 2020

The avowed aims of the British arm of Black Lives Matter | Daily Mail Online

The avowed aims of the British arm of Black Lives Matter | Daily Mail Online
  • Who are Black Lives Matter? 
  • Where did they come from and what, exactly, do they believe in?
...Ask most people who have protested on Britain’s streets following the killing of George Floyd and you will probably get one of two answers.
    Ask most people who have protested on Britain’s streets following the killing of George Floyd and you will probably get one of two answers. Pictured: BLM protesters in London on June 13
  • First they will tell you that Black Lives Matter is a group appalled by police brutality against people of colour...
  • Secondly, Black Lives Matter’s UK supporters will tell you it exists to campaign against the systemic racism that still exists in pockets of British society.
...Indeed...the group’s leaders, who remain largely anonymous, can use its financial muscle to pursue a smorgasbord of far-Left aims.
...On the group’s GoFundMe page, a statement outlining the Black Lives Matter UK policy agenda was uploaded a few days ago. 
It explains that the organisation intends to be ‘guided by a commitment to dismantle 
  • imperialism, 
  • capitalism, 
  • white supremacy, 
  • patriarchy and the 
  • state structures that disproportionately harm black people in Britain and around the world’.
...Elsewhere on its GoFundMe page, Black Lives Matter UK declares that it wishes to spend cash it has raised on ‘developing and delivering’ what it calls ‘strategies for the abolition of the police’.
Yet abolishing, rather than reforming, the police is an extreme policy with almost no public support outside a tiny circle of far-Left anarchists...
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