NBA legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar had a pointed message for celebrities who speak out against racism, but turn a blind eye to anti-Semitism, particularly that of Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan: you must acknowledge all forms of discrimination.
Abdul-Jabbar penned a scathing column in the Hollywood Reporter Wednesday, taking celebrities like Ice Cube, NFL player DeSean Jackson, and, most recently, television star Nick Cannon to task for embracing anti-Semitic conspiracy theories while publicly speaking out about anti-black racism.
According to Abdul-Jabbar, the &#8220;blind eye&#8221; many celebrities and sports figures are turning towards anti-Semitism puts the Black Lives Matter movement as a whole at risk and those who fail to correct figures like Jackson, who faced only a minor punishment from his team, are allowing discrimination to flourish.
&#8220;Recent incidents of anti-Semitic tweets and posts from sports and entertainment celebrities are a very troubling omen for the future of the Black Lives Matter movement, but so too is the shocking lack of massive indignation,&#8221; Abdul-Jabbar wrote. &#8220;Given the New Woke-fulness in Hollywood and the sports world, we expected more passionate public outrage. What we got was a shrug of meh-rage.&#8221;
“When reading the dark squishy entrails of popular culture, meh-rage in the face of sustained prejudice is an indisputable sign of the coming Apatholypse: apathy to all forms of social justice,” Abdul-Jabbar went on. “After all, if it’s OK to discriminate against one group of people by hauling out cultural stereotypes without much pushback, it must be OK to do the same to others. Illogic begets illogic.”
Among the top offenders, Abdul-Jabbar also lists Chelsea Handler and other white celebrities who recently posted a video from one of Louis Farrakhan&#8217;s speeches as a way of proving they&#8217;d received instruction in how to be better allies to minorities facing oppression.
&#8220;June continued to bust out all over with anti-Semitism when performer Chelsea Handler, herself Jewish, posted videos of Farrakhan to her 3.9 million followers,&#8221; he said. &#8220;That means almost 4 million people received a subliminal message that even some Jews think being anti-Jewish is justified.&#8221;
Abdul-Jabbar does not mention Nick Cannon, likely because Cannon&#8217;s rant, which was both anti-white and anti-Semitic, aired after Abdul-Jabbar had already turned in his column. Regardless, Cannon now finds himself out of a job after ViacomCBS terminated their relationship with the reality television star.
“While we support ongoing education and dialogue in the fight against bigotry, we are deeply troubled that Nick has failed to acknowledge or apologize for perpetuating anti-Semitism, and we are terminating our relationship with him,” Viacom said in a statement. “We are committed to doing better in our response to incidents of anti-Semitism, racism, and bigotry. ViacomCBS will have further announcements on our efforts to combat hate of all kinds.”
Abdul-Jabbar reached the same conclusion.
“No one is free until everyone is free,&#8221; he said. &#8220;As Martin Luther King Jr. explained: ‘Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality.’ So, let’s act like it.&#8221;
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Missouri Governor Mike Parson says he has spoken to President Donald Trump and that the pair are prepared to step in to help the McCloskeys, the St. Louis homeowners who had their guns confiscated – and may soon face arrest – for protecting private property from Black Lives Matter protesters.
The McCloskeys were caught on video brandishing a pair of firearms – a handgun and what looked to be an AR-15 – at Black Lives Matter protesters who had allegedly broken down a gate to enter their private community. Although the pair were not the target of the protest – the demonstration was headed to the nearby home of the mayor of St. Louis – they quickly became the subject of online ridicule and, subsequently, a criminal investigation.
&#8220;[Protesters said] that they were going to kill us,&#8221; Patricia McCloskey, the wife, told Sean Hannity of Fox News, adding that she feared for her life and had already secured her valuables before stepping out onto her lawn to protect her home. &#8220;They were going to come in there. They were going to burn down the house. They were going to be living in our house after I was dead, and they were pointing to different rooms and said, &#8216;That’s going to be my bedroom and that’s going to be the living room, and I’m going to be taking a shower in that room.&#8217;”
Although, initially, law enforcement officials indicated that they were investigating the protesters for wrongdoing, the St. Louis Circuit Attorney quickly added that the city was investigating the McCloskeys for unlawful behavior. Last Friday, law enforcement officers confiscated the AR-15 shown in the video and the McCloskeys&#8217; attorney turned the handgun over to authorities sometime last weekend.
Earlier this week, the pair <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/missouri-couple-who-defended-home-have-rifle-seized-during-police-search-report">told Fox News</a> that they expect to be indicted and arrested on charges that they threatened protesters without cause.
Parson <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/trump-st-louis-couple-wielding-guns-protesters-missouri-governor">told a press conference Wednesday</a> that he&#8217;d spoken to President Trump about the McCloskeys&#8217; plight and that the president &#8220;understands the situation in Missouri.&#8221;
&#8220;He understands the situation in St. Louis and how out of control it is for a prosecutor to let violent criminals off and not do their job and try to attack law-abiding citizens,&#8221; Parson said of the president.
&#8220;The conversation I had with the President, said that he would do everything he could within his powers to help with this situation,&#8221; he continued.
Parson has been vocal about the McCloskeys&#8217; case, tweeting last week that &#8220;Missourians have the right to protect their homes,&#8221; and that he found it &#8220;appalling&#8221; that prosecutors were &#8220;targeting the McCloskeys for defending their home.&#8221;
President Donald Trump tweeted a photo of the St. Louis homeowners to express his support for the pair.
The couple&#8217;s attorney told Fox News that, although the pair still expects to be indicted and arrested, the governor&#8217;s and president&#8217;s involvement comes as welcome news.
&#8220;The President has been restrained to date and has been kept up to date in virtually real-time. His support behind the scenes was vital to permitting local police to step back from prior directives to be &#8216;hands-off&#8217; protesters,&#8221; he said. &#8220;The support of the Executive Office appears to have motivated The Governor to garner a heightened degree of appreciation for implications and rights at risk in this situation.&#8221;
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Nick Cannon faced sharp criticism, especially from members of the black community, after <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-nick-cannon-white-people-are-a-little-less-closer-to-animals-true-savages">footage</a> hit the internet of him speaking openly and disparagingly about white people on an episode of his podcast, &#8220;Cannon&#8217;s Class.&#8221;
The 39-year-old former Nickelodeon star suggested whites are inferior to blacks, adding that white people are &#8220;savages,&#8221; the &#8220;only way that they can act is evil,&#8221; and they “have to rob, steal, rape, kill &#8230; in order to survive.”
Outkick the Coverage&#8217;s Jason Whitlock tied Cannon&#8217;s anti-white remarks to recent commentary from actor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/terry-crews-faces-backlash-for-saying-black-lives-matter-shouldnt-turn-into-black-lives-better">Terry Crews</a>, who warned against black supremacist ideology in relation to the far-left Black Lives Matter movement.
&#8220;This tweet took a lot of heat,&#8221; he said captioning Crews. &#8220;I thought of it today when reading about Nick Cannon&#8230;.. Teaching racism is at an all-time high. Don&#8217;t be a professor of bigotry.&#8221;
&#8220;If you are a child of God, you are my brother and sister,&#8221; the tweet from Crews read. &#8220;I have family of every race, creed and ideology. We must ensure [Black Lives Matter] doesn’t morph into [Black Lives Better].&#8221;
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This tweet took a lot of heat. I thought of it today when reading about Nick Cannon&#8230;.. Teaching racism is at an all-time high. Don&#39;t be a professor of bigotry. <a href="https://t.co/pd2rNJ3bKs">https://t.co/pd2rNJ3bKs</a>
&mdash; Jason Whitlock (@WhitlockJason) <a href="https://twitter.com/WhitlockJason/status/1283174497189654529?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 14, 2020</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Angry Black Girl&#8221; author Elexus Jionde noted that Cannon&#8217;s remarks are a &#8220;remix&#8221; on ideology that has rationalized past genocides.
&#8220;I&#8217;m adding a sixth point inspired by Nick Cannon: Thinking black people are a superior race, a remixed regurgitation of white supremacy and the same thinking that has rationalized genocide and abuse across the ages,&#8221; she said.
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I&#39;m adding a sixth point inspired by Nick Cannon: Thinking black people are a superior race, a remixed regurgitation of white supremacy and the same thinking that has rationalized genocide and abuse across the ages <a href="https://t.co/1p0jlJN97g">https://t.co/1p0jlJN97g</a>
&mdash; elexus jionde (@Lexual__) <a href="https://twitter.com/Lexual__/status/1283220116327395329?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 15, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Rapper <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSxoLJujM-k">Zuby</a> captioned the post of Cannon: &#8220;Yikes&#8230; Nick Cannon has gone full black supremacist. This is 100% certified racist.&#8221;
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Yikes&#8230; Nick Cannon has gone full black supremacist. 
This is 100% certified racist. 🤦🏿‍♂️ <a href="https://t.co/rGgVATPvNk">https://t.co/rGgVATPvNk</a>
&mdash; ZUBY: (@ZubyMusic) <a href="https://twitter.com/ZubyMusic/status/1283121203759198210?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 14, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Responding to backlash for calling out the racist remarks, Zuby posted: &#8220;My criticism of Nick Cannon has drawn a lot of weirdos to my page, who think what he said was right. To be 100% clear, I oppose racism in ALL directions. Anti-black, anti-white, anti-brown, anti-jewish.&#8221;
&#8220;If that bothers you, it doesn&#8217;t make me a &#8216;coon,’&#8221; Zuby added. &#8220;It makes you an idiot.&#8221;
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My criticism of Nick Cannon has drawn a lot of weirdos to my page, who think what he said was right.
To be 100% clear, I oppose racism in ALL directions.
Anti-black, anti-white, anti-brown, anti-jewish&#8230;
If that bothers you, it doesn&#39;t make me a &#39;coon&#39;. It makes you an idiot.
&mdash; ZUBY: (@ZubyMusic) <a href="https://twitter.com/ZubyMusic/status/1283290472463642624?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 15, 2020</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;This is a really great example of what racism actually sounds like. The word is misused so often that you can forget what it actually means. Luckily the bigot [Nick Cannon] is here to demonstrate!&#8221; wrote Daily Wire podcast host and columnist Matt Walsh.
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This is a really great example of what racism actually sounds like. The word is misused so often that you can forget what it actually means. Luckily the bigot <a href="https://twitter.com/NickCannon?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NickCannon</a> is here to demonstrate! <a href="https://t.co/5iRpgjNbgR">https://t.co/5iRpgjNbgR</a>
&mdash; Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) <a href="https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1283116619204632577?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 14, 2020</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Nick Cannon is an open bigot who literally called white people evil savages. A white person would be canceled in a heartbeat for saying that about another race and not one person on Earth would defend him. The same rules should apply to Nick and we should absolutely insist on it,&#8221; Walsh later added.
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Nick Cannon is an open bigot who literally called white people evil savages. A white person would be canceled in a heartbeat for saying that about another race and not one person on Earth would defend him. The same rules should apply to Nick and we should absolutely insist on it.
&mdash; Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) <a href="https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1283235837547892738?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 15, 2020</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Nick Cannon sure is a f***in&#8217; racist,&#8221; Human Events&#8217; Ian Miles Cheong stated bluntly.
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Nick Cannon sure is a fuckin&#39; racist. <a href="https://t.co/xkwP3xo0sE">https://t.co/xkwP3xo0sE</a>
&mdash; Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) <a href="https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1283116810959613952?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 14, 2020</a></blockquote>
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During the podcast, Cannon said &#8220;melanated people&#8221; have &#8220;power,&#8221; making those without it fearful.
“Melanin is so power[ful], and it connects us in a way, that the reason why they fear black &#8230; is because the lack that they have of it.&#8221; he said, adding, “When you have a person that has the lack of pigment, the lack of melanin, that they know that they will be annihilated.&#8221;
&#8220;So, therefore, however they got the power, they have the lack of compassion,&#8221; Cannon continued. “Melanin comes with compassion, melanin comes with soul. We call it soul. Soul brothers and sisters. That&#8217;s the melanin that connects us. So the people that don&#8217;t have it, and I&#8217;m going to say this carefully, are a little less.”
“When they didn&#8217;t have the power of the sun, the sun then started to deteriorate them, so then they&#8217;re acting out of fear, they&#8217;re acting out of low self-esteem, they&#8217;re acting out of a deficiency,” Cannon said. “So, therefore, the only way that they can act is evil. They have to rob, steal, rape, kill &#8230; in order to survive. [&#8230;] They had to be savages, they had to be barbaric, because they&#8217;re in these Nordic mountains, they&#8217;re in these rough &#8230; environments, so they&#8217;re acting as animals. So they’re the ones that are actually closer to animals; they’re the ones that are actually the true savages.”
The comments triggered <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/viacomcbs-terminates-nick-cannon-over-anti-semitic-remarks-does-not-mention-anti-white-remarks">ViacomCBS</a> to terminate their relationship with Cannon, though the company cited only the actor&#8217;s anti-Semitic remarks, saying nothing about his anti-white commentary.
“ViacomCBS condemns bigotry of any kind and we categorically denounce all forms of anti-Semitism,” the company&#8217;s statement said. “We have spoken with Nick Cannon about an episode of his podcast ‘Cannon’s Class’ on YouTube, which promoted hateful speech and spread anti-Semitic conspiracy theories.”
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Nick Cannon says white people are &quot;a little less,&quot; &quot;closer to animals,&quot; &quot;the true savages,&quot; &quot;acting out of a deficiency so the only way they can act is evil.&quot; When does he get canceled? <a href="https://t.co/vK3TBDW9i8">pic.twitter.com/vK3TBDW9i8</a>
&mdash; Adam Ford (@Adam4d) <a href="https://twitter.com/Adam4d/status/1283087941271801861?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 14, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/viacomcbs-terminates-nick-cannon-over-anti-semitic-remarks-does-not-mention-anti-white-remarks">ViacomCBS Terminates Nick Cannon Over Anti-Semitic Remarks, Does Not Mention Anti-White Remarks</a>
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‘Full Black Supremacist’: Nick Cannon Criticized For Racist Anti-White Remarks

As an organization, Black Lives Matter is diametrically opposed to the majority of Americans of every race, creed, and color, not just the American way of life. With the help of mainstream media coverage, which sanitizes its radical views and goals, the organization has hoodwinked many well-intentioned Americans and will continue to do so with its particular brand of neo-Marxism, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/khan-faith-in-a-dark-time">deconstruction of traditional values</a>, and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/khan-cancel-culture-is-now-invading-the-american-workplace">calculated outrage</a>. Amid the rapid spread and scope of the movement in recent months, here are five ways in which the organization’s values and goals clash with the majority of Americans.
1. BLM seeks to abolish traditional family values 
With its repeated attacks on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heteronormativity">heteronormativity</a> and the nuclear family, BLM seeks to abolish not only traditional values as they exist in America, but, also, as they exist in nearly every culture around the world. The truth is the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_sexual_orientation#General_findings">vast majority of men and women are heterosexual</a> and most still believe in traditional notions of marriage and fidelity, especially among immigrant communities here in America.
Here is how <a href="https://blacklivesmatter.com/what-we-believe/">BLM’s official site</a> describes its goal of &#8220;disrupting&#8221; the nuclear family:
<blockquote>“We disrupt the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure requirement… When we gather, we do so with the intention of freeing ourselves from the tight grip of heteronormative thinking, or rather, the belief that all in the world are heterosexual…”</blockquote>
The massive blind spot in BLM’s antagonism toward traditional family values is that those very same values continue to serve as the bedrock for immigrant communities throughout America and have done so for centuries, whether it’s generations of Italian and Irish immigrants or, more recently, Asian, Latino, and Eastern European immigrants. Citing the Census Bureau, the <a href="https://ifstudies.org/blog/most-immigrant-families-are-traditional-families">Institute For Family Studies</a> reported:
<blockquote>“[C]hildren of immigrants are more likely, not less likely, than children of native-born Americans to be growing up in traditional families, i.e., with two married parents.” </blockquote>
Additionally — and crucially to the aims of the larger &#8220;black lives matter&#8221; movement (as opposed to the organization) — the traditional nuclear family is imperative for black prosperity in America now more than ever, as Glenn T. Stanton of <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2020/06/16/how-black-lives-matters-antagonism-to-marriage-and-family-hurts-black-americans/">The Federalist</a> points out:
<blockquote>“Beyond the mistaken assumption that the “nuclear family” is unique to the Western world, their position is profoundly concerning. BLM, as an organization, seeks to dismantle the very institution that mountains of published <a href="http://familyinamerica.org/files/3214/5806/3564/Stanton.pdf">academic research</a> has consistently demonstrated as most likely to strengthen and empower Black Americans and their children: the traditional, nuclear family.”</blockquote>
2. BLM seeks to cancel capitalism 
Capitalism has allowed the U.S. to become the greatest economy the world has ever seen. For centuries, generations of Americans and immigrants from all over the world have been afforded a far greater standard of living because of America’s capitalism-based economic system. It’s the driving impetus behind the American dream. Yet Black Lives Matter organizers <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/black-lives-matter-led-drive-to-defund-the-police-also-targets-capitalism">openly seek to dismantle it</a>.
In 2017, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/black-lives-matter-leaders-campaign-to-cancel-capitalism-shaped-by-marxist-upbringing">Melina Abdullah</a>, one of the most influential of BLM’s leaders and a professor at California State University, Los Angeles (CSULA), <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/black-lives-matter-black-christmas-capitalism-724309">declared</a> on her radio show, <a href="https://www.kpfk.org/on-air/beautiful-struggle/">Beautiful Struggle</a>:
<blockquote>“[W]e have to disrupt the white supremacist, capitalistic, patriarchal, heteronormative system that is really the root cause of these police killings.”</blockquote>
Anthony Ratcliff, another BLM leader and tenured professor at CSULA, echoed her assertion, declaring that capitalism is “just as nefarious” as white supremacy and thus must be eliminated as well:
<blockquote>“Black Lives Matter and other organizations have as much hatred or vitriol against capitalism… Until we start to see capitalism [is] just as nefarious as white supremacy, we will always be struggling.&#8221;</blockquote>
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3. BLM disallows anyone from transcending the superficial categories of race and color
According to BLM, one is hopelessly confined to the superficialities of race and color by supposedly overarching patriarchal strictures and structures. This is a classic Marxist trope promoted in the works of <a href="https://www.iep.utm.edu/fouc-pol/">Michel Foucault</a> and other radical theorists that refuses to acknowledge the volition and agency of each and every individual, regardless of color, creed, or circumstance.
It’s also a Marxist trope that the great and complex American writer, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Baldwin">James Baldwin</a>, summarily dismissed even as a gay, black man in the 1950s.
In the final lines of “<a href="http://faculty.gordonstate.edu/lsanders-senu/Everybody's%20Protest%20Novel%20by%20James%20Baldwin.pdf">Everybody’s Protest Novel</a>,” a scathing critique of Richard Wright’s Marxist novel, “<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_Son">Native Son</a>,” Baldwin dismantles the spurious notions of being confined to one’s race and class by some nebulous patriarchal structure with eloquent precision:
<blockquote>“The failure…lies in its rejection of life, the human being, the denial of his beauty, dread, power, in its insistence that it is his categorization which is real and cannot be transcended.”</blockquote>
The great failure of BLM is that it yields to an inherently flawed Marxist paradigm that disallows the individual to prosper, grow, and transcend regardless of race, color, or circumstance. Instead, it seeks to confine all people, particularly minorities, to narrow, external categories of race and color to further its agenda.
4. BLM marginalizes many shared values of minorities and immigrant communities
Whether by misandry or the constant derision directed at heterosexuality and values such as marriage, fidelity, traditional gender roles, and religious beliefs, most minorities in America are also targeted, directly or indirectly, by the agenda of the Black Lives Matter organization.
Most minorities come from immigrant communities that hold to values that are directly opposed to what BLM espouses. This includes most <a href="https://sojo.net/articles/importance-thriving-black-church">black communities</a> as well. These individuals and communities do not want their beliefs and ways of life challenged or ruined by the postmodern constructs, loose sexual mores, and gender-fluid values that BLM propagates.
In particular, the supposed “spirituality” that BLM promotes is really just a mishmash of New Age tropes that are anathema to the religious beliefs of many immigrant communities that have or are assimilating into the American way of life. For example, according to <a href="https://berkleycenter.georgetown.edu/responses/the-fight-for-black-lives-is-a-spiritual-movement">The Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs</a>:
<blockquote>“The movement [BLM] infuses a syncretic blend of African and indigenous cultures’ spiritual practices and beliefs, embracing ancestor worship; Ifa-based ritual such as chanting, dancing, and summoning deities; and healing practices such as acupuncture, reiki, therapeutic massage, and plant medicine in much of its work, including protest.”</blockquote>
It’s worth noting that, according to the <a href="https://www.pewforum.org/religious-landscape-study/immigrant-status/immigrants/">Pew Research Center</a>, almost 70% of immigrants to America are Christian. The New Age <a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/syncretism">syncretism</a> that BLM espouses is often considered sacrilege to the religious practices of these immigrants. Yet, the organization continues to indoctrinate the children of these immigrants through the media and on <a href="https://reason.com/2017/10/04/black-lives-matter-students-shut-down-th/">campuses nationwide</a> to oppose the beliefs of the religious teachings of their upbringing until it falls in line with their larger cultural and political agenda.
5. BLM is explicitly Marxist in orientation
BLM’s founders, <a href="https://blacklivesmatter.com/our-co-founders/">Alicia Garza, Patrisse Khan-Cullors, and Opal Tometi</a>, openly admit to being <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdpIIiBe7Wc">Marxists</a>. They draw almost exclusively from critical theory and its offshoot, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_race_theory">critical race theory</a> (CRT). Both theories are rooted in Marxist thought and have been a mainstay in left-wing academia for decades. <a href="https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/critical-theory/">The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy</a> offers a detailed analysis of critical theory while <a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/critical-theory">Encyclopedia Britannica</a> offers a more succinct definition: 
<blockquote>“Drawing particularly on the thought of <a href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Karl-Marx">Karl Marx</a> and <a href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sigmund-Freud">Sigmund Freud</a>, critical theorists maintain that a primary goal of philosophy is to understand and to help overcome the social structures through which people are dominated and oppressed…Since the 1970s, critical theory has been immensely influential in the study of <a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/history">history</a>, law, <a href="https://www.britannica.com/art/literature">literature</a>, and the social sciences.”</blockquote>
Writing for <a href="https://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2020/06/65132/">Public Discourse</a>, R. Albert Mohler, Jr. offers a necessary critique of why critical theory and BLM are in opposition to the American way of life:
<blockquote>“[G]uided by Marxist ideology that seeks to revolutionize our culture and society… Black Lives Matter operates from a worldview that undercuts human dignity. It sees each person’s identity as determined by externally imposed social structures, which are in turn determined by the human desire to seize power and oppress others. Such identity politics entangles human identity in subjective, materialist terms…”</blockquote>
It’s important to note that Mohler does not, at all, dismiss the notion of “black lives matter” as a sentiment. In fact, as the president of <a href="http://www.sbts.edu/">The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary</a>, he offers a broad and compassionate take rooted in the very American values BLM seeks to erase:
<blockquote>“Today, there are very real and urgent moral concerns about the lives and well-being of black Americans. It is not wrong in our context, therefore, to say ‘black lives matter’ as a sentence…But it’s not that simple…Black Lives Matter did not emerge merely as a sentence. Those three words function as a message and a platform making a significant political statement…”</blockquote>
Currently, BLM has far more to do with Mao and his violent <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Revolution">Cultural Revolution</a> that lead to the death of untold millions than Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement. King demanded an end to injustices rooted in the inequality and racism that were contrary to American values. Mao, however, sought and succeeded in uprooting an entire nation through violence and propaganda.
Like Mao, BLM seeks to uproot the very foundations of a nation with its Marxist goals. In this sense, they view our nation, in its entirety, with all its deep struggles and great achievements, as a lost cause.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/8-ways-black-lives-matter-activists-changed-the-nations-largest-criminal-justice-system">8 Ways Black Lives Matter Activists Changed The Nation’s Largest Criminal Justice System</a>
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On Monday, Fox News contributor Lawrence Jones went into Brooklyn to speak to the father and paternal grandmother of one-year-old Davell Gardner Jr., who tragically died after being hit by stray gunfire at a New York City playground over the weekend.
Davell Gardner Sr., in tears, pleaded with the community to come forward with information on who killed his baby boy, stating that people in the community know but are not coming forward (video below).
The heartbroken father also said that not enough is being done about the surge in New York City violence, adding that he feared this might happen to his son and wanted to get out of the city.
&#8220;I didn&#8217;t know if my son was gonna make it or not, and he didn&#8217;t,&#8221; Davell Sr. recalled in tears. &#8220;I was looking for answers&#8230; When the doctors came out and told me, I just lost myself.&#8221;
Anyone who says they believe his son&#8217;s life mattered &#8220;are just lying,&#8221; the father continued, &#8220;because if you know information, that needs to be said, and no information is being said.&#8221;
&#8220;Whatever information you know, you need to tell me, it needs to be known,&#8221; he pleaded. &#8220;I need this information, because these guys just took my son&#8217;s life. For what? He didn&#8217;t do nothing to nobody.&#8221;
The victim&#8217;s grandmother, Samantha Gardner, said the child&#8217;s killers can &#8220;go to hell.&#8221;
&#8220;For the cowards that did this, you should be ashamed of yourselves,&#8221; she said, adding: &#8220;Everybody talk about &#8216;Black Lives Matter.&#8217; What about baby lives? What about teenager lives? You took an innocent child from a mother and a father, and I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s fair.&#8221;
&#8220;I just finished interviewing Samantha &amp; Davell Sr. The grandmother and father of 1-year-old Davell Gardner Jr.,&#8221; Jones posted Monday, captioning a photo of the victim, who was set to turn two years old in two month. &#8220;He was in his stroller, when a group opened fire at a BBQ. A bullet hit baby boy in the stomach &amp; sadly he didn’t make it. I’m live from Brooklyn, NY tonight.&#8221;
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I just finished interviewing Samantha &amp; Davell Sr. The grandmother and father of 1-year-old Davell Gardner Jr. He was in his stroller, when a group opened fire at a BBQ. A bullet hit baby boy in the stomach &amp; sadly he didn’t make it. I’m live from Brooklyn, NY tonight. <a href="https://t.co/52gzciUH0A">pic.twitter.com/52gzciUH0A</a>
&mdash; Lawrence B. Jones III (@LawrenceBJones3) <a href="https://twitter.com/LawrenceBJones3/status/1282816338671669252?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 13, 2020</a></blockquote>
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As reported by WPIX, outraged members of the community echoed the father&#8217;s concerns, calling on those with knowledge to come forward.
&#8220;You know who pulled that godd*** trigger last night,&#8221; one woman pleaded. &#8220;It&#8217;s time to go to work, I need y&#8217;all to check in.&#8221;
&#8220;What I&#8217;m saying to you today, march hard, not just for police brutality, do this for this black-on-black (crime),&#8221; she added. &#8220;That could be your child!&#8221;
According to WPIX, community organizers announced a march set for Wednesday, across the Brooklyn bridge, &#8220;calling for a unified effort against gun violence.&#8221;
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Baby shot to death in <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Brooklyn?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Brooklyn</a>. 
Davell Gardner Jr. was just one year old when a bullet hit and killed him last night outside of a playground.
Now the community is begging for people to come forward with information. 
Story w/ <a href="https://twitter.com/jamesfordtv?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@jamesfordtv</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/NYC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#NYC</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/news?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#news</a><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/PIX11NEWS?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#PIX11NEWS</a> <a href="https://t.co/lrYY99VjDv">pic.twitter.com/lrYY99VjDv</a>
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1-year-old Davell Gardner Jr. was shot and killed in New York City as gun violence continues to surge.
His family spoke out to the <a href="https://twitter.com/seanhannity?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@seanhannity</a> show.
&quot;Everybody talk about &#39;Black Lives Matter.&#39; What about baby lives? You took an innocent child from a mother and a father&#8230;&quot; <a href="https://t.co/plynPXFbms">pic.twitter.com/plynPXFbms</a>
&mdash; Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) <a href="https://twitter.com/dcexaminer/status/1282851163738714113?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 14, 2020</a></blockquote>
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The gut-wrenching death of Davell happened on the same day Rep. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ocasio-cortez-nyc-crime-surge-maybe-due-to-people-being-scared-to-pay-their-rent-dont-have-jobs">Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez</a> (D-NY) suggested the massive surge of crime in New York City was a byproduct of pandemic-related poverty.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/one-year-old-baby-killed-by-gunfire-at-nyc-cookout">One-Year-Old Baby Killed By Gunfire At NYC Cookout Same Day AOC Rationalizes Crime Uptick</a>
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One-Year-Old Shot In Brooklyn Playground Amid NYC Gun Violence Uptick

WATCH: Family Speaks Out After Baby Killed During NYC Cookout: Everybody Says ‘Black Lives Matter,’ ‘What About Baby Lives?’

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In an interview Monday, a prominent Christian historian posited that the destructive chaos engulfing the country in recent months is likely rooted in a hatred of divine authority.
Speaking with Fox News host Tucker Carlson about the recent string of attacks against Christian churches, bestselling author Eric Metaxas first likened a <a href="https://twitter.com/GovHowardDean/status/1282013403238871040" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">recent anti-Christian tweet</a> from former DNC Chairman Howard Dean to the scapegoating behavior of the infamous emperor Nero, who blamed the Great Fire of Rome on first-century Christians.
Pivoting to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/catholic-churches-across-the-country-burned-vandalized-over-the-weekend">recent instances of church arson</a> and desecration of religious icons, Metaxas said, &#8220;I think a lot of the nastiness that is being directed at these statues, it really has to do with something deeper, Tucker. I hate to say it, but there&#8217;s something very dark. You saw this in the French Revolution. There was a hatred at the bottom of it of God, of any kind of authority.&#8221;
&#8220;These people are drunk with the idea that they can somehow be an authority themselves, that they can seize power,&#8221; Metaxas continued. &#8220;And if you really want to cut to the chase, you forget about statues of generals and things. You go right for God, you go right for the Virgin Mary. My goodness, you go right for churches. You cut to the chase.&#8221;
Going on to reference Captain Ahab&#8217;s rage against God in &#8220;Moby Dick,&#8221; Metaxas said, &#8220;That&#8217;s really where the source of hatred is coming from. It&#8217;s a hatred of God and a sense of deep injustice. That&#8217;s what we&#8217;re talking about here. We&#8217;re talking about something that goes way beyond Confederate generals.&#8221;
Carlson agreed with Metaxas&#8217; analysis, adding that &#8220;our leaders can&#8217;t stand&#8221; the idea of an authority higher than themselves. &#8220;I do think, though, that Christian leaders play a role in this,&#8221; Carlson continued, explaining that Muslim leaders would never countenance a mosque or Islamic monument being defaced. &#8220;I don&#8217;t see Christian leaders doing the same, and I don&#8217;t know why.&#8221;
Metaxas blamed widespread biblical illiteracy among Christian leaders as the reason behind their unwillingness to take a stand against evil. Referencing David killing Goliath and Elijah mocking the prophets of Baal, Metaxas said, &#8220;There are many instances of Scripture where people fight [&#8230;] That has been lost. There are many people that have got a watered-down kind of Christianity, they&#8217;re offended by Trump. They seem to think that being nice is what it means to be a Christian.&#8221;
Metaxas, who obtained fame for his 2009 biography of German pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer, appealed to Bonhoeffer&#8217;s legacy of resisting the mobs that roiled Germany during the Nazi regime. &#8220;When Kristallnacht happened, Bonhoeffer knew that this attack on the Jews by these who, as far as I&#8217;m concerned, were animated by the spirit of Antichrist — these were not just political mobs, there was something deeper and darker — he understood that this attack on the synagogues, it was an attack on God himself.&#8221;
&#8220;I don&#8217;t like to use the word too lightly, but there was something satanic about it,&#8221; Metaxas added, and suggested violent protesters and vandals are partaking of the same spirit.
Metaxas and Carlson echoed the sentiment of Rev. LeRoy Marshall, whose majority-black church in New Albany, Indiana, was recently vandalized when &#8220;BLM&#8221; graffiti was spray painted on their statue of Lucy Higgs Nichols, an escaped slave and Civil War nurse.
Marshall told <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/a-sign-of-the-times-black-pastor-laments-blm-vandalism-of-escaped-slave-statue" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Daily Wire</a> last week that &#8220;the church needs to be saying something. It’s been crickets, silent, about what’s going on. I think if anybody has something to say, it should be the church first. If you’re talking about justice, we believe that justice starts right here at the church. And as Christians, that’s what we believe. So why we’ve been so silent, I have no idea.”
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‘Hatred Of God’ Lies At Root Of Nationwide Vandalism, Christian Historian Says

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On Monday morning, a man splashed red paint over the Black Lives Matter mural painted on the street in front of Trump Tower in Manhattan on Fifth Avenue, the same mural that Mayor Bill de Blasio <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/de-blasio-suggests-ban-on-public-gatherings-like-parades-or-fairs-black-lives-matter-protests-are-different?%3Futm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=dwtwitter">helped paint last Thursday</a> as he yelled, “We are saying Black Lives Matter in New York City and Black Lives Matter in the United States of America! Let’s show Donald Trump what he does not understand; let’s paint it right in front of his building for him!”
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Have you ever seen a more useless politician than Bill de Blasio?
This is just pathetic. <a href="https://t.co/3hiTW2aCn7">pic.twitter.com/3hiTW2aCn7</a>
&mdash; Benny (@bennyjohnson) <a href="https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1281319361937117184?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 9, 2020</a></blockquote>
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With shootings <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/new-york-city-shootings-video">soaring</a> in his city and the growing cries for <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/07/01/new-york-city-budget-billion-nypd-defund-police/5354307002/">defunding the police</a> affecting the city, de Blasio made sure his list of priorities included making sure that the paint was removed from the mural as soon as possible, sending out a group of workers as he tweeted, “To whoever vandalized our mural on 5thAvenue: nice try. @NYC_DOT has already fixed it. The #BlackLivesMatter movement is more than words, and it can’t be undone.”
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To whoever vandalized our mural on 5th Avenue: nice try. <a href="https://twitter.com/NYC_DOT?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NYC_DOT</a> has already fixed it. 
The <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BlackLivesMatter?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#BlackLivesMatter</a> movement is more than words, and it can’t be undone. <a href="https://t.co/nlYTALCWxJ">pic.twitter.com/nlYTALCWxJ</a>
&mdash; Mayor Bill de Blasio (@NYCMayor) <a href="https://twitter.com/NYCMayor/status/1282798688943955969?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 13, 2020</a></blockquote>
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ABC News, which obtained a <a href="https://abc7ny.com/trump-tower-black-lives-matter-mural-vandalized-red-paint-in-nyc/6315320/">copy of the video</a> showing the man splashing the paint, reported, “The suspect was described as a white male wearing a black hat and black T-shirt who fled westbound on West 56th Street.”
Last week, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/de-blasio-suggests-ban-on-public-gatherings-like-parades-or-fairs-black-lives-matter-protests-are-different?%3Futm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=dwtwitter">appearing on CNN</a> with host Wolf Blitzer, de Blasio took aim at President Trump, who had said that the mural “denigrated” 5thAvenue. De Blasio <a href="https://www.mediaite.com/tv/pure-racism-mayor-bill-de-blasio-rips-trump-for-denouncing-nycs-black-lives-matter-mural-in-front-of-trump-tower/">called Trump’s remarks</a> about the mural “pure racism,” stating that the mural was “liberating” 5thAvenue:
<blockquote>De Blasio: Wolf, it was such an important message. The people of this city believe black lives matter, and we wanted to send that message to our whole city, but to our whole nation. And in fact, here was an opportunity for the President of the United States to show respect for the fact that that’s what we value here. And what did he do? He literally tweeted that writing “Black Lives Matter” on Fifth Avenue would “denigrate the luxury of that avenue.” That is pure racism. That is acting like an acknowledgment of the value of black people is somehow belittling, when in fact what we’re trying to do is lift up people who have built this city and built America and haven’t been given their respect. And it can’t just be words, Wolf, it has to be actions.
So we’re taking resources from our police department and putting it into youth programs. We’re acknowledging institutional racism and coming up with specific plans to tear it down. We need to take this transcendent moment and get the most out of it. But the president, rather than having a chance to acknowledge America’s original sin, he literally made it worse by suggesting that honoring black people on Fifth Avenue would somehow make it less valuable or luxurious. I gotta tell you, people are outraged by that, but more importantly, they’re speaking out, and folks today felt jubilant and triumphant. We were not denigrating Fifth Avenue; we were liberating Fifth Avenue by putting those crucial words right there in front of President Trump’s building.</blockquote>
De Blasio&#8217;s focus on the street mural amid the wave of violent crime in the city prompted blowback from commentators online:
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I’m sure this will be of great comfort to the family mourning their one year-old son and grandson tonight. <a href="https://t.co/hNIwVuibjo">https://t.co/hNIwVuibjo</a>
&mdash; Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) <a href="https://twitter.com/DLoesch/status/1282849592158105600?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 14, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Heya glad you fixed your painting. Any thought on the 4 kids shot over the weekend? <a href="https://t.co/faCtUu0yzu">https://t.co/faCtUu0yzu</a>
&mdash; Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) <a href="https://twitter.com/redsteeze/status/1282804572960899072?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 13, 2020</a></blockquote>
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You make David Dinkins look like <a href="https://twitter.com/RudyGiuliani?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RudyGiuliani</a> <a href="https://t.co/ZWrHqlb2eJ">https://t.co/ZWrHqlb2eJ</a>
&mdash; Larry O&#39;Connor (@LarryOConnor) <a href="https://twitter.com/LarryOConnor/status/1282805726486892544?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 13, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Massive surge in violent crime and this dolt is busy promoting murals to an unashamedly anti-police, neo-Marxist group. <a href="https://t.co/XJWr88yXub">https://t.co/XJWr88yXub</a>
&mdash; Rita Panahi (@RitaPanahi) <a href="https://twitter.com/RitaPanahi/status/1282849565238890496?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 14, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Really impressive turnaround. You guys couldn&#39;t have gotten to that any faster if it had been a lock on a Jewish neighborhood playground. <a href="https://t.co/YsqqJ6N0EK">https://t.co/YsqqJ6N0EK</a>
&mdash; Omri Ceren (@omriceren) <a href="https://twitter.com/omriceren/status/1282807537708957700?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 13, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Black Lives Matter Mural Painted On Street In Front Of Trump Tower

Paint Splashed On De Blasio’s BLM Mural. With Shootings Soaring, He Makes Sure It’s Fixed ASAP.

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Defund the Police

Murders, Gun Violence Increased In These 6 Major Cities As ‘Defund The Police’ Went Mainstream

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In late-June, Black Lives Matter activists marched through the posh area of Beverly Hills, California, yelling, “Abolish capitalism, now!”
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Black Lives Matter protesters in Beverley Hills, Cal. chant: “Abolish capitalism, now!” <a href="https://t.co/RgEdMfmyA1">pic.twitter.com/RgEdMfmyA1</a>
&mdash; Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) <a href="https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1276792358546239488?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 27, 2020</a></blockquote>
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It appears that in Washington, D.C., at the Black Lives Matter Plaza, those activists are getting their wish, as a notice went out that starting Monday, no vendors, including the many vendors selling Black Lives Matter paraphernalia, would be permitted to set up shop in the area.
Justin Hinton of ABC News tweeted: “Vendors have set up shop along Black Lives Matter Plaza for what appears to be the last time. Someone with DCRA was passing out this flyer saying ‘agencies will begin active enforcement of vending regulations …’ starting Monday. There’s also a no-vending sign. @ABC7News.”
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Vendors have set up shop along Black Lives Matter Plaza for what appears to be the last time. Someone with DCRA was passing out this flyer saying “agencies will begin active enforcement of vending regulations&#8230;” starting Monday. There’s also a no-vending sign <a href="https://twitter.com/ABC7News?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ABC7News</a> <a href="https://t.co/su7IFJh9tv">pic.twitter.com/su7IFJh9tv</a>
&mdash; Justin Hinton (@justinhintontv) <a href="https://twitter.com/justinhintontv/status/1282373027846651906?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 12, 2020</a></blockquote>
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The Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs’ notice read:
<blockquote>Pursuant to DC DCMR Title 24 §502.1, §524.1and §524.2,the Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs (DCRA), District Department of Transportation (DDOT) and other District agencies will begin active enforcement of vending regulations in and around the following areas as of Monday, July 13, 2020.</blockquote>
The DCRA then listed the boundaries of the area in question before continuing, “Any person found vending on or after July 13, 2020, will be subject to fines/penalties in an amount up to $2,093.00.&#8221;
Some Black Lives Matter leaders have openly slammed capitalism or championed Marxism, as <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/black-lives-matter-issued-demands-urged-crowd-to-disrupt-white-capitalism-at-weekend-l-a-rally">The Daily Wire</a> reported in early-June:
<blockquote>Dr. Melina Abdullah, lead organizer of Black Lives Matter’s L.A. chapter, led call and response chants of “disrupt white capitalism,” a concept she believes is the root cause of police violence in America. Abdullah, who is also a college professor, went on to drop a string of expletives that seemingly foreshadowed what was to come after the rally would end.
“F*** the police,” she shouted into the megaphone. “F*** white capitalism. F*** The Grove. F*** 3rdand Fairfax. F*** Beverly Hills.” By nightfall, stores at every shopping district Abdullah mentioned had been vandalized and looted, and several LAPD cruisers in the Fairfax District were reportedly set <a href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-05-30/protesters-march-toward-beverly-hills-demanding-justice-for-george-floyd">on fire</a>.</blockquote>
Abdullah <a href="https://lasentinel.net/blacklivesmatters-blackxmas-is-not-just-about-buying-black-its-about-saving-black-lives.html">wrote</a> in 2018:
<blockquote>In addition to investing in our own communities, #BlackXmas and the emerging economic empowerment work of Black Lives Matter is intended as a divestment from White corporations that contribute to the murder, death, abuse, and exploitation of Black people in real terms. We assert that White capitalism is killing our people in very real terms, most starkly through its utilization of a violent, racist, police force to protect its quest for profit. …
Black people, we must be radical in our approach, daring to get to the root of it all. White capitalism requires racist, violent policing to protect it. In order to eliminate police violence, and the killings of our people at their hands, we must also target the economic systems that built it and rely on it.</blockquote>
The co-founder of Black Lives Matter, Patrisse Cullors, <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/06/25/blm-co-founder-describes-herself-as-trained-marxist/">stated</a> of herself and co-founder Alicia Garza in 2015, &#8220;The first thing, I think, is that we actually do have an ideological frame. Myself and Alicia in particular are trained organizers. We are trained Marxists. We are super-versed on, sort of, ideological theories.&#8221;
H/T <a href="https://twitchy.com/gregp-3534/2020/07/12/blm-plaza-declared-a-capitalism-free-zone-blm-vendors-hardest-hit/">Twitchy</a>
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Protesters Demonstrate In D.C. Against Death Of George Floyd By Police Officer In Minneapolis

Black Lives Matter Activists Want To ‘Abolish Capitalism.’ Vendors Selling BLM Merch Just Got Shut Down In Black Lives Matter Plaza.

Capitalism

Protesters from Black Lives Matter and supporters of law enforcement officials and President Donald Trump squared off in two separate incidents Saturday in New York City and its surrounding boroughs.
Nearly 400 people attended a &#8220;Blue Lives Matter&#8221; rally in Brooklyn on Saturday, challenging New York City mayor Bill de Blasio&#8217;s plan to cut around $1 billion from the New York Police Department&#8217;s budget and reroute the money to social service organizations. Protesters marched down Bay Ridge Parkway carrying signs affirming &#8220;that policing is needed to keep crime down and communities safe,&#8221; <a href="https://abc7ny.com/brooklyn-back-the-blue-rally-nypd/6313052/">according to NYC&#8217;s local ABC affiliate</a>.
&#8220;They have been there, and they will always be there &#8211; are they perfect? No, but are you? Hello, America &#8211; it&#8217;s time to wake up,&#8221; one protester told the network, noting that law enforcement officials have suffered in recent weeks.
The group drew the ire of Black Lives Matter protesters who, in recent weeks, have been pushing to defund, disarm, and even disband police departments across the country in the wake of George Floyd&#8217;s death while in the custody of Minneapolis police.
In Brooklyn, though, conflict between the two groups was kept to a minimum. &#8220;There were arguments between the two sides, as well as a few discussions, but their interaction fizzled out,&#8221; ABC reported.
In New York City, the scene wasn&#8217;t as peaceful, as dueling protests met outside Trump Tower in Midtown, arguing over a Black Lives Matter mural painted on Fifth Avenue just outside President Donald Trump&#8217;s former corporate headquarters.
&#8220;Supporters and opponents of President Trump clashed in front of his New York City residence on Fifth Avenue on Saturday just two days after a large Black Lives Matter mural was painted on the street next to the entrance,&#8221; the <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8514167/Showdown-Trump-Tower-MAGA-supporters-clash-protesters-outside-presidents-NYC-home.html">Daily Mail reported Sunday</a>.
&#8220;In Manhattan, about a dozen Trump supporters carrying signs that read ‘Trump 2020’ and wearing t-shirts emblazoned with the words ‘All Lives Matter’ gathered in front of Trump Tower on Saturday afternoon,&#8221; the outlet noted. &#8220;Several of them were wearing red Make America Great Again hats while wearing variations of the American flag. A few of them unfurled a huge American flag that had the words ‘Trump’ and ‘Keep America Safe’ scrawled across the stars and stripes.&#8221;
Trump opponents gathered outside the building as well, and both sides were seen throwing &#8220;middle fingers&#8221; at each other during the confrontation. Trump supporters also descended on an opposing protester with a bullhorn, arguing over the president&#8217;s agenda.
De Blasio authorized the &#8220;Black Lives Matter&#8221; mural last week, angering some New York residents who complained that the mayor was pressing anti-police protests even as the city was cracking down on other gatherings, including the yearly, traditional San Gennaro festival in the city&#8217;s Little Italy, over concerns about the novel coronavirus.
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BLM v. MAGA: Protesters Square Off In New York City Over Police Support, ‘Black Lives Matter’ Street Mural

Blue Lives Matter

Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms (D) is facing increasing pressure to resign over her handling of recent events around the city, including the death of a young girl who was shot and killed near a Wendy&#8217;s where a police officer fatally shot Rayshard Brooks after he resisted arrest.
The girl, 8-year-old Secoriea Turner, was killed as violent criminals opened fire on a car that her mother was driving as she was trying to pull a U-turn to get away from the rioters.
“They didn’t give us time to make a U-turn,” Turner’s mother <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/father-of-8-year-old-killed-near-atlanta-wendys-they-say-black-lives-matter-you-killed-your-own">said</a>. “They started shooting at my car before we could even make a U-turn. Shooting my tires out, like why?”
A social justice activist blamed Bottoms for Turner&#8217;s death, <a href="https://www.ajc.com/news/pandemic-protests-keep-atlanta-mayor-national-spotlight/6AkZtzVhakbGZ2y8PdBUtJ/">saying</a>, “Keisha we begged ya’ll for help. You said you’re schedule was so busy that you didn’t have time to meet with activists … You only got time when it’s good for you … If you would have been doing your job, if APD would have been doing their job then no one would have been killed … How is Secoriea’s blood not on your hands?”
Attorney Gerald Griggs, vice president of the Atlanta NAACP, agreed that Bottoms was responsible for Turner&#8217;s death on July 4.
&#8220;For Keisha to call you guys out and say blood is on your hands … it’s not true,” Griggs said, according to the <a href="https://www.ajc.com/news/local/protesters-march-wendy-where-rayshard-brooks-was-killed/oa5PUMFjjjK1XIWDeO9o6O/">Atlanta Journal-Constitution</a>. “The blood is on her hands.”
“Get off CNN. Get off MSNBC. Get off Fox. Get off ABC!” Griggs continued. “The community is down here. We want an end to police brutality on your watch, Keisha. If you can’t do it, you need to pack up your office.”
Bottoms initially tried to hold the community responsible for what happened, saying, “You can’t blame this on a police officer, you can’t say this is about criminal justice reform. This is about some people carrying some weapons who shot up a car with an eight-year-old baby in the car,” Bottoms said. “We got to stop this. We are doing each other more harm than any police officer on this force. We’ve had over 75 shootings in the city over the past several weeks. You can’t blame that on APD.”
The next day Bottoms <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/atlanta-mayor-keisha-bottoms-suggests-trump-responsible-for-8-year-old-girl-murdered-in-atlanta/">appeared</a> on CNN, where she suggested that President Donald Trump was responsible for what happened in her city.
CNN host Brooke Baldwin asked Bottoms how such a tragic incident could occur: “I want to just get right to Secoriea, 8 years of age. You said it over the weekend. She was a baby. How could this happen?”
“I was listening to [Chicago] Mayor [Lori] Lightfoot, she summed it up,” Bottoms said. “We talk about systemic racism and the trauma and anxiety and all these things that are happening in our communities. And it is this convergence.”
“And I hate to use the word a perfect storm, but it’s where we are in this country right now,” Bottoms continued. “And you think about the leadership or the lack thereof that we have coming from the highest office in the land. I think that you are seeing so many emotions play out. And so, too often, it’s playing out in violence in our streets.”
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Atlanta NAACP Suggests Democrat Mayor Keisha Bottoms Resign: ‘If You Can’t Do It, You Need To Pack Up Your Office’

Atlanta

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Last Sunday, a young mother from Indianapolis, Indiana, Jessica Doty Whitaker, was shot to death after allegedly getting into an argument about Black Lives Matter and language.
The incident started &#8220;with an argument over Black Lives Matter and language,&#8221; according to the victim&#8217;s family, <a href="https://fox59.com/news/crimetracker/indy-mother-becomes-2nd-homicide-along-downtown-canal-in-1-week/">Fox 59</a> reported. &#8220;Eventually the two sides separated and walked away from each other, until witnesses claim the killer opened fire from a nearby bridge and ran away.&#8221;
Fiancé Jose Ramirez, who was with Doty Whitaker, 24, at the canal at the time of the incident, told the news station, “It was squashed and they went up the hill and left we thought, but they were sitting on St. Claire waiting for us to come under the bridge and that’s when she got shot.&#8221;
Ramirez says he fired back but did not hit anyone.
<a href="https://www.bellmortuary.com/obituary/Jessica-Doty-Whitaker?fbclid=IwAR10o7x8-xwj_cwHhQe2DsrCU3cFy2iqJ7RcuJAt7iBvo-HvvqEbkg2bFNw">Robert J. Doty</a>, the victim&#8217;s father, told reporter <a href="https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/07/young-white-mother-killed-black-lives-matter-mob-allegedly-saying-lives-matter-national-media-fully-ignores/?utm_source=Twitter&amp;utm_campaign=websitesharingbuttons">Cassandra Fairbanks</a> that his daughter told the Black Lives Matter supporters that &#8220;All Lives Matter.&#8221;
The Daily Wire spoke to Mr. Doty to confirm. &#8220;Yes that is accurate,&#8221; Doty said when asked if his daughter said &#8220;all lives matter&#8221; during the argument about BLM.
Doty added that he &#8220;just wants justice&#8221; for his daughter.
Taking to Facebook, the grieving father showed off a tattoo of his daughter&#8217;s name on his back, which he got days after her murder.
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“She shouldn’t have lost her life. She’s got a 3-year-old son she loved dearly,” a tearful Ramirez told Fox 59. “It’s hard to tell him his mom is in heaven and if you want to talk to her you have to look up and say, ‘I love you mom.'&#8221;
“We’re going through a lot,&#8221; the fiancé added. &#8220;The 3-year-old boy doesn’t even understand really. I just want justice for Jessica and her son and her family.”
The victim&#8217;s grandfather posted to &#8220;Facebook that &#8216;multiple black assailants&#8217; shot her in the head,&#8221; Fairbanks reported.
&#8220;Why isn&#8217;t anybody outraged about this?&#8221; the grandfather asked. &#8220;Is it that BLM was involved or that it was white young adults that [were] the victims?&#8221;
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A week before Doty Whitaker&#8217;s death, two were shot along the same canal, including a 14-year-old black male who was killed while allegedly carrying out an attempted armed robbery, according to Fox 59.
Still, MPD Capt. Jerry Leary says the &#8220;canal is still a safe [place] to go.&#8221;
“Just recently the DMD is hiring two overtime officers to work the canal during those times nightly,” Leary said. “A combination of all those efforts we hope is going to make a difference and it can’t help to.”
The victim&#8217;s killer remains at large.
Police are asking citizens with any information concerning the incident to contact Crime Stoppers at 317-262-TIPS.
A <a href="https://www.gofundme.com/f/jessica-whitaker">GoFundMe</a> for the victim has been set up by Macie Dunn; The Daily Wire was able to confirm the account via the victim&#8217;s father Robert Doty.
&#8220;Jessica, was a wonderful mother, sister, daughter, fiancée, friend, aunt, cousin [and] coworker,&#8221; the GoFundMe reads. &#8220;Loved by many and will [surely] be missed by many.&#8221;
&#8220;She made sure everyone around her was happ[y],&#8221; the post says, &#8220;&#8230; She does not deserve this. She has passed away on July 5th, 2020 around 3:30 [a.m.]. She was walking the downtown canal with her fiancée a Friend and his girlfriend. And was shot.&#8221;
&#8220;We are asking for you to donate whatever you can to help our family give her the most beautiful service she deserves. Also to help with the beautiful son she left behind. That was her pride and joy . WE LOVE YOU JESSIE ❤WE ARE THANKFUL.&#8221;
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Young Mother Shot To Death After Telling BLM Supporters ‘All Lives Matter,’ Family Says

Indiana

The city council for Montpelier, Vermont, unanimously rejected a petition to paint an American flag and the phrase “Liberty and Justice for All” in front of the Vermont State House.
The city council made its decision in a contentious Wednesday night meeting where the members heard arguments for the murals from GOP gubernatorial candidate John Klar and several other supporters. Klar wanted to paint the flag on one side of an existing “Black Lives Matter” motto on the street, and the phrase “Liberty and Justice for All” in red, white, and blue painted on the other side.
The council rejected the petition on appeal after the Montpelier city manager’s office rejected a petition by Klar to close State Street in order to paint the mural. The office said the city needed at least 45 days to approve a street closure, according to the <a href="https://vtdigger.org/2020/07/09/montpelier-city-council-denies-candidates-mural-proposal/">VT Digger</a>.
On June 12, the city council appeared to forgo the 45-day rule in an “emergency” meeting to approve painting the phrase “Black Lives Matter” down State Street in front of the State House the next day.
“Today, at the June 12th &#8211; Emergency City Council Meeting, Montpelier City Council approved closing State Street between Taylor Street and Bailey Ave from 7am- 2pm tomorrow June 13th, 2020 for the purpose of having volunteers paint the phrase Black Lives Matter on State Street in front of the State House,” the city wrote on Facebook.
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Klar has pledged to take the city to court for favoring one type of political speech over another in a public venue.
Tensions between council members and Klar began building well ahead of the Wednesday vote. After Klar appealed to the council a week prior, one city councilman, Conor Casey, <a href="https://vtdigger.org/2020/07/03/gop-gubernatorial-candidate-requests-for-new-state-street-mural-denied/">dismissed</a> Klar’s petition as a “stunt” and that he would vote against it. The motion has gotten support from Vermont Gov. Phil Scott, a Republican, who called the proposed message “very patriotic, fitting for the Fourth of July.”
At the meeting, Klar called on Casey to recuse himself from the vote for bias.
“As a city councilor has weighed in on this rather recklessly and maligned my intentions and those of other people who are behind this application,” Klar said, according to VT Digger.
Casey responded by calling Klar a racist, saying “I don’t think all conservatives are racist either, John. But I definitely think you are, so I’ll absolutely oppose this.”
“Until we can recognize that Black lives matter, I don’t think ‘liberty and justice for all’ is alive and well in America,” Casey continued. “So I apologize, Mr. Klar, if I am doubting your intentions with coming in here with this request but I read some of your commentary pieces and I find them offensive.”
Casey did not respond to requests for comment or to substantiate the charge against Klar.
Klar has written <a href="https://www.americanthinker.com/author/john_klar/">45 commentary articles</a> for the website American Thinker, most dealing with Vermont politics. Of the articles, a Daily Wire review of the materials found six that mentioned <a href="https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/03/racebaiting_in_vermont.html">race</a> <a href="https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/02/oh_xusana_racist_property_redistribution_hits_vermont.html">or</a> <a href="https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/08/vermonters_strive_to_preserve_their_culture_against_false_charges_of_racism.html">Black</a> <a href="https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/07/vermonts_governor_calls_his_own_states_people_irredeemably_racist.html">Lives</a> <a href="https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/04/white_vermont_schools_display_black_lives_matter_flags.html">Matter</a>. The most recent, written July 8, is an <a href="https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/07/black_lives_matter_vs_the_us_flag_at_the_vermont_capitol.html">article</a> on Klar’s fight with the Montpelier city council to paint “liberty and justice for all” alongside the “Black Lives Matter” message on State Street.
“I stand by all my articles,” Klar told The Daily Wire in an interview on Friday. “I want the country to look at what Vermont is doing so that&#8217;s why I write for American Thinker, to warn the rest of the country about the progressive front line here &#8230; They are completely out of control.”
“I&#8217;m a former public defender, and I&#8217;ve raised over $25,000 for Ugandan children over the last five years. I&#8217;m anything but a racist,” Klar said in an email, adding that he regrets having to defend himself from the charge leveled by Casey.
Klar said he has partnered with a Ugandan pastor, Simon Peter Otudo, since 2016, to support financially through personal donations and fundraisers a school for orphaned children that Otudo runs. A review of financial documents given to The Daily Wire showed that since October 2018, Klar has donated over $1,700 to <a href="http://www.gbchapel.org/uganda.html">Otudo</a>.
“To call somebody the n-word is a horrible offense and to call someone a racist without evidence is comparable, if not equal, in its content for a fellow human,” Klar told The Daily Wire.
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Vermont City Council Rejects American Flag Art After Pushing Through ‘Emergency’ BLM Street Mural

Patriotism

Vermont

Law enforcement officials in St. Louis have allegedly served a warrant on the St. Louis couple who recently defended their home when a large mob of angry demonstrators allegedly trespassed onto their private property.
“5 On Your Side has learned St. Louis police officers executed a search warrant Friday evening at the home of Mark and Patricia McCloskey, the Central West end couple who confronted protesters with weapons in June,” KSDK News <a href="https://www.ksdk.com/article/news/local/mccloskeys-served-with-warrant-police-take-rifle-shown-in-viral-pictures-st-louis-protests/63-c6059a94-528c-4fa5-8fea-4a87fba31f1c">reported</a>. “Sources tell 5 On Your Side police seized one of the weapons, the rifle, from the couple and they told police their attorney has the pistol seen in photos.”
Fox News host Shannon Bream confirmed the news in a tweet, writing, &#8220;BREAKING: Warrant reportedly served on St. Louis couple who stood outside their home with weapons as protesters approached. We&#8217;re told weapon(s) seized. We&#8217;ve got the warrant and pictures for you at 11p &#8211; PLUS, Missouri @AGEricSchmitt joins us LIVE&#8230;”
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BREAKING: Warrant reportedly served on St. Louis couple who stood outside their home with weapons as protesters approached. We&#39;re told weapon(s) seized. We&#39;ve got the warrant and pictures for you at 11p &#8211; PLUS, Missouri <a href="https://twitter.com/AGEricSchmitt?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@AGEricSchmitt</a> joins us LIVE <a href="https://twitter.com/FoxNews?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@FoxNews</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/foxnewsnight?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@FoxNewsNight</a>
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Attorney Harmeet K. Dhillon responded to the news by tweeting, &#8220;Missouri is a Castle Doctrine state, permitted among the broadest latitudes of any state in using even deadly force to protect yourself or your property. This couple used NO force, despite the imminent threat from a trespassing mob. The seizure of weapons is government overreach.&#8221;
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Missouri is a Castle Doctrine state, permitted among the broadest latitudes of any state in using even deadly force to protect yourself or your property. This couple used NO force, despite the imminent threat from a trespassing mob. The seizure of weapons is government overreach. <a href="https://t.co/CZI3w3GhpE">https://t.co/CZI3w3GhpE</a>
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The left-wing demonstrators returned to the couple&#8217;s home last week and were met by private security that was guarding the home.
&#8220;When about 300 protesters returned Friday — holdings signs reading &#8216;Black Lives Matter. Period&#8217; and &#8216;No Justice, No Peace&#8217; — a more subdued Mark McCloskey could be seen peering out from his balcony while his wife appeared to be shooting video of the marchers on her mobile phone,&#8221; the New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/07/05/st-louis-couple-stay-on-balcony-as-protesters-return-to-mansion/">reported</a>. &#8220;The photos also show private security guards setting up barricades and securing the gate prior to Friday’s new demonstration.&#8221;
Mark McCloskey, who guarded his private property with an AR-15, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/homeowner-sounds-off-rioters-threatened-to-kill-us-take-our-home-rifle-only-thing-that-saved-us?%3Futm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=dwtwitter">told</a> a local news station following the incident, “We were threatened with our lives, threatened with the house being burned down, my office building being burned down, even our dog’s life being threatened. It was about as bad as you can get. You know, I really thought it was the storming of Bastille, that we would be dead and the house would be burned and there was nothing we could do about it. It was a huge and frightening crowd and they broke in the gate and they were coming at us.”
St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kimberly Gardner, a Democrat, claimed that the McCloskey&#8217;s defending their private property was a &#8220;violent assault&#8221; and that authorities “will use the full power of Missouri law to hold people accountable.”
Albert Watkins, the McCloskeys’ attorney, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/st-louis-gun-couple-investigated-clash-protesters">told</a> Fox News that &#8220;If Kimberly Gardner wants to press charges against two attorneys who are protecting their home and their family and themselves on their own property, I will tell you that it will be nothing short of the proverbial cluster f***.&#8221;
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Couple points guns at protesters marching to St. Louis mayor&#8217;s home to demand resignation

Warrant Served On St. Louis Couple Who Defended Private Property, Rifle Confiscated

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A small-town Indiana church is reeling after their statue of Lucy Higgs Nichols, an escaped slave and Civil War nurse, was defaced with &#8220;BLM&#8221; graffiti last week.
Rev. LeRoy Marshall, who is pastor of the historic, majority-black <a href="http://www.townclockchurch.org" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Second Baptist Church</a> in downtown New Albany, Indiana, told The Daily Wire that he nevertheless hopes good will come out of the situation, which he said has shocked his small congregation and the wider community.
The Lucy Higgs Nichols statue was <a href="https://www.wave3.com/2020/07/09/new-albany-church-install-security-cameras-after-slave-sculpture-is-vandalized/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">desecrated</a> by an unknown vandal who fled on a bicycle during the early morning hours of July 3, exactly one year after it was <a href="https://www.newsandtribune.com/news/statue-of-new-albanys-lucy-higgs-nichols-unveiled/article_efd1ffa6-9deb-11e9-a28f-e3becbb4942e.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">first unveiled</a> in front of the church that once served as a stop along the Underground Railroad. The 10-ton statue, carved from Indiana limestone, commemorates one of the most celebrated figures in the history of New Albany, a city along the Ohio River where Nichols settled after the Civil War.
Born in 1838, Nichols escaped from a Tennessee farm in 1862 with her young daughter, Mona, and traveled several miles to the Union line across the Hatchie River. She joined the 23rd Indiana Infantry Regiment as a nurse and followed them throughout the war, eventually taking part in the victorious Grand Review of the Armies in Washington, D.C.
Beloved by the troops who referred to her as &#8220;Aunt Lucy,&#8221; Nichols was the only woman to receive an honorary induction into the Grand Army of the Republic, and she was buried in an unmarked grave in New Albany with full military honors in 1915.
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Vandal paints &#39;BLM&#39; on New Albany statue celebrating woman who escaped slavery <a href="https://t.co/onOaHnZ3eC">https://t.co/onOaHnZ3eC</a> <a href="https://t.co/m1QbrzMtQJ">pic.twitter.com/m1QbrzMtQJ</a>
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BLM out of control.
African American Lucy Higgs Nichols fleeing slavery with her infant daughter in her arms <a href="https://t.co/rTf1aAFI1T">pic.twitter.com/rTf1aAFI1T</a>
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&#8220;Obviously we were very upset about it,&#8221; Marshall said of his community&#8217;s response to the <a href="https://www.tribstar.com/indiana/news/statue-of-escaped-slave-turned-civil-war-nurse-vandalized-in-new-albany/article_1a33f3ae-e531-56b8-8ed3-2136e658b726.html#utm_campaign=blox&amp;utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">statue&#8217;s vandalism</a>, which has prompted a <a href="https://www.gofundme.com/f/underground-railroad-town-clock-church" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">GoFundMe</a> to support the installation of more surveillance cameras around the church. &#8220;It seems to be a trend all over the country, but in a small town like New Albany, most people don&#8217;t think that something like this could happen. We&#8217;re well aware it&#8217;s a sign of the times.&#8221;
Marshall went on to explain how &#8220;very disturbing&#8221; it was that the turmoil roiling the country reached his 25-member congregation. &#8220;These kind of things really are setbacks for us during the pandemic, when some of our folks aren&#8217;t working.&#8221; He said that given the circumstances already straining his community and the entire country, the apparently racist act against the Nichols statue is &#8220;really more of a problem even than it would have been isolated by itself,&#8221; adding, &#8220;We&#8217;re praying that things get better, because if they don&#8217;t, I don&#8217;t how much more we can take.&#8221;
Marshall is nevertheless thankful at the opportunity the incident has offered for churches nationwide to join with his in speaking out against the problems afflicting American culture. &#8220;We have been just flabbergasted,&#8221; he said regarding the number who have reached out to him in the past week, ranging from Catholics and Presbyterians to representatives from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. &#8220;If you&#8217;re asking what&#8217;s going to come out of it, I think the churches are going to wake up, that we need to be saying something about what&#8217;s going on.&#8221;
&#8220;I can&#8217;t speak for other churches,&#8221; Marshall said, &#8220;but I do say the church needs to be saying something. It&#8217;s been crickets, silent, about what&#8217;s going on. I think if anybody has something to say, it should be the church first. If you&#8217;re talking about justice, we believe that justice starts right here at the church. And as Christians, that&#8217;s what we believe. So why we&#8217;ve been so silent, I have no idea.&#8221;
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BLM Graffiti Justice

‘A Sign Of The Times’: Black Pastor Laments ‘BLM’ Vandalism Of Escaped Slave Statue

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On Friday, Senator Josh Hawley fired off a <a href="https://www.hawley.senate.gov/sites/default/files/2020-07/Hawley-Letter-NBA-China-Jersey-Messages.pdf">letter</a> to NBA Commissioner Adam Silver in which he slammed the league for deciding players could emblazon social justice messages on their jerseys while he claimed the league didn’t approve any messages supporting the beleaguered people of Hong Kong, other victims of the Chinese Communist party, or law enforcement.
That prompted ESPN reporter Adrian Wojnarowski to email Hawley this elegant response: “F*** you.”
Hawley responded on Twitter: “Don’t criticize #China or express support for law enforcement to @espn . It makes them real mad. @Outkick.”
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Don’t criticize <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/China?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#China</a> or express support for law enforcement to <a href="https://twitter.com/espn?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@espn</a>. It makes them real mad ⁦<a href="https://twitter.com/Outkick?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Outkick</a>⁩ <a href="https://t.co/WJDxrotUBD">pic.twitter.com/WJDxrotUBD</a>
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Wojnarowski later offered an <a href="https://twitter.com/wojespn/status/1281650976319868930">apology</a> for his email.
According to <a href="https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/29405787/source-nba-union-agree-list-social-messages-put-jerseys">ESPN</a>, the approved messages included: Black Lives Matter; Say Their Names; Vote; I Can&#8217;t Breathe; Justice; Peace; Equality; Freedom; Enough; Power to the People; Justice Now; Say Her Name; Sí Se Puede (Yes We Can); Liberation; See Us; Hear Us; Respect Us; Love Us; Listen; Listen to Us; Stand Up; Ally; Anti-Racist; I Am A Man; Speak Up; How Many More; Group Economics; Education Reform; and Mentor.
Hawley began his letter by writing: “On July 3, the National Basketball Association (NBA) came to an agreement with the NBA players union allowing players to wear certain social and political messages on their jerseys, almost all aligned with the message of recent anti-police protests. Conspicuously missing from the list of approved phrases are any in support of the victims of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), including the people of Hong Kong, whose remaining freedoms are being extinguished by the CCP’s newly-enacted national security law.”
He continued by citing the NBA kowtowing to the Chinese Communist regime: “Given the NBA’s troubled history of excusing and apologizing for the brutal repression of the Chinese Communist regime, these omissions are striking. Last October, you no doubt recall, you chose to apologize to the CCP after Daryl Morey, General Manager of the Houston Rockets, spoke up on behalf of the Hong Kong protestors.”
Then Hawley outlined the NBA’s response when he called them out:
<blockquote>Following that shameful display, I encouraged you to reverse course. Instead, you have spent the intervening months deepening the NBA’s ties to the CCP. Just last week, you described the October incident as “a bump in the road” in the NBA’s relationship with the Chinese government. You went on to say that you understand that the CCP has “a different view of &#8230; how things should be done,” and that you hope the NBA and the CCP will be able to “find mutual respect for each other.”</blockquote>
He laced into Silver and the NBA: “What offensive nonsense. No amount of profit can justify collaborating with a regime for which violent suppression and enslavement are routine tools of governance. The league’s new policy suggests a newfound commitment to enhanced employee expression. But that free expression appears to stop at the edge of your corporate sponsors’ sensibilities. And for woke capital today, profits from the Chinese market are more popular than patriotism. The truth is that your decisions about which messages to allow and which to censor – much like the censorship decisions of the CCP – are themselves statements about your association’s values.”
Hawley continued, “If I am right – if the NBA is more committed to promoting the CCP’s interests than to celebrating its home nation – your fans deserve to know that is your view. If not, prove me wrong. Let your players stand up for the Uighurs and the people of Hong Kong. Let them stand up for American law enforcement if they so choose. Give them the choice to write ‘Back the Blue’ on their jerseys. Or ‘Support our Troops.’ Maybe ‘God Bless America.’ What could be more American than that?”
He threw down the gauntlet:
<blockquote>With your new policy, you have crossed the line of sanctioning specific political messages. There is no avoiding the work of clarifying the association’s values now. This is a time for you to make clear what your league believes about human rights and about the nation that is your home. Your silence on these questions speaks volumes.
With that in mind, I request your response to the following questions by July 29, 2020:</blockquote>
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<li>Is the NBA prepared to allow its players to wear phrases in support of the United States, the American military, and U.S. law enforcement personnel, such as “God Bless America,” “Support Our Troops,” or “Back the Blue”? Will it censor players wearing such messages on their jerseys?</li>
<li>Are public reports correct that the list of phrases approved for display on NBA players’ jerseys does not include messages in support of victims of the Chinese Communist Party?</li>
<li>If a player chooses to display a message of support for victims of the Chinese Community Party on their jersey, will the NBA allow the player to wear their jersey or will it censor that player in order to avoid drawing Beijing’s ire?</li>
<li>How does the NBA plan to defend NBA players and employees against retaliation by the Chinese Communist Party if they choose to speak out against the Party’s actions in Hong Kong, Xinjiang, or elsewhere?</li>
<li>Is the NBA prepared to publicly condemn any attempt by the Chinese Communist Party to silence or punish these individuals?</li>
</ol>
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Secretary Mnuchin Testifies In Senate Hearing On CARES Act Implementation

GOP’s Hawley Rips NBA For Approving Social Justice Messages While Reportedly Excluding Supporting Hong Kong, Law Enforcement. ESPN Reporter Snaps, ‘F*** You’

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On Thursday evening, the death of 24-year-old Robert Fuller was officially ruled a suicide, following weeks of social media outcry and protesting demanding &#8220;justice&#8221; for Fuller, who was rumored to have been the victim of a racist lynching.
Fuller was tragically found hanging from a tree in a Southern California park on June 10. According to Los Angeles County Sheriff&#8217;s Department Cmdr. <a href="//abc7.com/society/officials-rule-robert-fuller-death-suicide/6309572/">Chris Marks</a>, the young man had a history of mental illness.
&#8220;There were no signs of a struggle. No defensive wounds observed, and no other signs of trauma visible to Mr. Fuller,&#8221; said Marks during a press conference, adding, &#8220;The DNA results were returned from the ligatures and the fingernails of Mr. Fuller. The quantitative results for each tested sample indicated that the predominant contributor for each sample belonged to Mr. Fuller.&#8221;
Marks also outlined three hospitalizations of Fuller since 2017 in which the young man &#8220;told doctors he was considering taking his life,&#8221; the <a href="https://www.dailynews.com/2020/07/09/authorities-say-death-of-robert-fuller-was-a-suicide/">Los Angeles Daily News</a> reported.
Last November, Marks said, Fuller &#8220;disclosed that he did have a plan to kill himself&#8221; while he was being treated for depression. Additionally, Fuller “allegedly tried to light himself on fire&#8221; during a February incident, which was investigated by the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department.
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The <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/LosAngeles?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#LosAngeles</a> county sheriff’s office and medical examiner made a official statement on the death of <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/RobertFuller?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#RobertFuller</a>. He was found hanging from a tree June 10, in Palmdale, CA. Authorities officially rule the death a suicide. RIP Robert Fuller 🙏 <a href="https://t.co/LqyUpUJsMp">pic.twitter.com/LqyUpUJsMp</a>
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In the wake of Fuller&#8217;s death, protests against racism erupted and accusations of foul play were suggested.
Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) posted a report on Fuller&#8217;s death and demanded further investigation. &#8220;Robert Fuller&#8217;s family and the entire Palmdale community deserve answers,&#8221; she wrote. &#8220;There must be further investigation.&#8221;
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Robert Fuller&#39;s family and the entire Palmdale community deserve answers. There must be further investigation. <a href="https://t.co/G6kyAKMOyt">https://t.co/G6kyAKMOyt</a>
&mdash; Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) <a href="https://twitter.com/KamalaHarris/status/1271900150928216065?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 13, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Musical talent Jaden Smith posted, &#8220;JUSTICE FOR ROBERT FULLER!!!&#8221;
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JUSTICE FOR ROBERT FULLER!!!
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The incident also sparked protests in the area.
&#8220;Palmdale residents have been grappling with the death of 24-year-old Robert Fuller, a Black man found hanging from a tree in the California city earlier this month,&#8221; a Morning Edition report said. &#8220;The community&#8217;s decades of entrenched racism have fueled the outcry.&#8221;
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Palmdale residents have been grappling with the death of 24-year-old Robert Fuller, a Black man found hanging from a tree in the California city earlier this month.
The community&#39;s decades of entrenched racism have fueled the outcry: <a href="https://t.co/ktAtH0q7p2">https://t.co/ktAtH0q7p2</a> <a href="https://t.co/vrhjlKvCyP">pic.twitter.com/vrhjlKvCyP</a>
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City officials in Palmdale, California, said they support calls for an independent investigation into the death of Robert Fuller, a black man whose death was deemed a suicide after he was found hanging from a tree in a public square this week <a href="https://t.co/df9fHu4SNH">https://t.co/df9fHu4SNH</a>
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Actor Damon Gupton suggested Fuller was the victim of a racism lynching, invoking the term &#8220;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strange_Fruit">strange fruit</a>.&#8221;
&#8220;While people &#8216;celebrate&#8217; America today with the rah rah cis boom bah, I find myself remembering Robert Fuller found hanging from a tree 51 minutes from where I live three weeks ago,&#8221; he wrote on Independence Day. &#8220;Strange fruit.&#8221;
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While people “celebrate” America today with the rah rah cis boom bah, I find myself remembering Robert Fuller found hanging from a tree 51 minutes from where I live three weeks ago. Strange fruit. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/america?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#america</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/independenceday2020?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#independenceday2020</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/unsolvedmysteries?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#unsolvedmysteries</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BlackLivesStillMatter?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#BlackLivesStillMatter</a>
&mdash; Damon Gupton (@DamonGupton) <a href="https://twitter.com/DamonGupton/status/1279543245358284800?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 4, 2020</a></blockquote>
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American rapper Russ seemingly promoted racial ties to Fuller&#8217;s death, as did government-subsidized NPR.
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RIP ROBERT FULLER <a href="https://t.co/Ku7VwuV07J">https://t.co/Ku7VwuV07J</a>
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Robert Fuller was found hanging from a tree in Palmdale, Calif., this month. Many are skeptical his death was a suicide.
For decades, neo-Nazis and skinheads have been a threat in the area—linked to hate crimes including the firebombing of a Black church.<a href="https://t.co/PYTHG8vnYk">https://t.co/PYTHG8vnYk</a>
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A <a href="https://www.change.org/p/los-angeles-sheriff-s-department-palmdale-station-justice-for-robert-fuller?recruiter=592769966&amp;utm_source=share_petition&amp;utm_medium=twitter&amp;utm_campaign=psf_combo_share_initial&amp;utm_term=psf_combo_share_abi&amp;recruited_by_id=f53631e0-7154-11e6-81ca-0df1c57dd557">Change.org petition</a> signed by nearly 900,000 people calling for &#8220;justice for Robert Fuller&#8221; said the 24-year-old might have been the victim of a lynching.
On Friday, Daily Wire columnist and podcast host Matt Walsh highlighted how the tragedy of Fuller&#8217;s death was exploited by some on the Left.
&#8220;The sad case of Robert Fuller is instructive,&#8221; Walsh wrote in a series of posts. &#8220;He was a depressed and suicidal man who had been hospitalized three times for suicidal thoughts and had attempted suicide at least once recently. But when he was found hanging his family insisted that he wouldn&#8217;t have killed himself.&#8221;
&#8220;The media and Democrats jumped in, grotesquely exploiting his death by openly speculating that he might have been lynched. He wasn&#8217;t. It was an obvious case of suicide. No signs of struggle. No sign that anything happened against his will. He used his EBT card to buy the rope,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;The very idea that a man might have been lynched in public with no witnesses, nothing on video, no evidence left behind, was always patently ridiculous. Some people in the mob might have been dumb enough to really believe it, but the media and elected Dems knew better.&#8221;
Still, Democrats and their allies in the mainstream media, argued Walsh, &#8220;were happy to exploit this tragic situation for their own ends. They are so desperate to support their narrative of America as a racist and oppressive country that they will even swoop down like vultures on the dead body of a suicidal man. These are truly evil people.&#8221;
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The media and Democrats jumped in, grotesquely exploiting his death by openly speculating that he might have been lynched. He wasn&#39;t. It was an obvious case of suicide. No signs of struggle. No sign that anything happened against his will. He used his EBT card to buy the rope.
&mdash; Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) <a href="https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1281576720282329088?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 10, 2020</a></blockquote>
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They were happy to exploit this tragic situation for their own ends. They are so desperate to support their narrative of America as a racist and oppressive country that they will even swoop down like vultures on the dead body of a suicidal man. These are truly evil people.
&mdash; Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) <a href="https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1281576721981071361?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 10, 2020</a></blockquote>
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US-CRIME-RACISM-PROTEST

Black Man Found Dead Hanging From Tree, Sparking Protests, Lynching Claims, Ruled A Suicide

Former &#8220;Bachelorette&#8221; Rachel Lindsay, the first black American to lead a season of the franchise, opened up Thursday about her struggles with overcoming her personal opposition to interracial dating.
Speaking on the YouTube series “<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qjc95uGeJ6Q&amp;" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Uncomfortable Conversations</a><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qjc95uGeJ6Q&amp;" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"> with a Black Man</a>” on Thursday, Lindsay said she used to be &#8220;so against&#8221; dating men outside her race.
“I’ve always been told that I wasn’t black enough and I’m not even [biracial],” Lindsay said, as highlighted by <a href="https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/rachel-lindsay-says-she-was-once-against-dating-outside-of-her-race/">Us Weekly</a>. “I’m a black woman and I’ve always been told that I wasn’t black enough because of the way that I grew up, the experiences that I had. So I, you know, to be 100 percent honest it was something that I fought before I came on to &#8216;The Bachelor.'&#8221;
“Up until I was 30 I really didn’t date seriously outside of my race because I felt like society – not my parents, not my friends – society was telling me I had to pick a black man,” she added.
When it came to choosing her man to marry, Lindsay said she did not want to meet people&#8217;s expectations by falling for a man simply because he looked like her.
“I feel like they expect me to pick someone who looks just like me, but that’s not fair. They should just want me to fall in love with whoever it is that I vibe with,” she said.
Lindsay eventually chose Bryan Abasolo, a man of Colombian descent. They were married in August 2019.
As the &#8220;Black Lives Matter&#8221; protests erupted nationwide in early June, Lindsay <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/former-bachelorette-rachel-lindsay-says-show-needs-more-diversity">called on the show</a> to promote more diversity.
“In 40 seasons, [‘The Bachelor’] had one black lead,” Lindsay said. “You are almost on par to say you’re more likely to become the president of the United States than you are a black lead in this franchise. That’s insane. That’s ridiculous.”
If the franchise does not change course, Lindsay said that she is prepared to step away from it entirely. Just recently, she appeared as a judge on the “Bachelor” spin-off show “<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/entertainment/genres/reality" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Listen to Your Heart</a>.&#8221;
“It’s been asked of me: ‘Will I continue in this franchise if it continues in this way?&#8217;” Lindsay said. “I can’t. I have to see some type of change. It’s ridiculous. It’s embarrassing. At this point, it’s embarrassing to be affiliated with it.”
Lindsay also said in an Instagram post that black women are not appreciated enough in this country.
“We are BLACK WOMEN…we build…we don’t tear down other black women…for many years we have felt the pain of not being seen for our undeniably beautiful skin, instead, we are looked down upon,” she said. “But right now in this moment, we will acknowledge each other! We will uplift each other today! We can see how they portray the black women on the media and what affect that has had on our beautiful black girls. The fighting, the screaming, and the judging has run its course. We are beautifully the same. Upload 1 picture/video of just you and tag as many beautiful black queens as you would like. Please let’s keep this challenge going!”
This article and its headline have been revised for clarity. 
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Dr. Oz, Meredith Vieira And Rachel Lindsay Visit Extra

‘Bachelorette’ Rachel Lindsay: I Used To Be Against Dating Outside My Race

On Thursday, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio suggested on CNN that gatherings such as normal parades and fairs would be restricted in his city, but Black Lives Matter protests would not be shut down.
On Thursday, de Blasio helped paint a Black Lives Matter mural in front of Trump Tower in Manhattan, and yelled, “We are saying Black Lives Matter in New York City and Black Lives Matter in the United States of America! Let’s show Donald Trump what he does not understand; let’s paint it right in front of his building for him!” Later, the mayor appeared on CNN with host Wolf Blitzer, who asked him, “What about protests? If people want to march down Fifth Avenue, are they going to be allowed to do so?”
De Blasio answered, “Look, Wolf, this is always an area of real sensitivity. If you’re just talking about health, we would always say, ‘Hey, folks, you know, stay home if you can.’ But we understand at this moment in history, people are talking about the need for historic changes. I mean, today, in New York City, recognizing the power and the meaning of the message Black Lives Matter, which we did in front of Trump Tower today, this is a historic moment of change; we have to respect that, but also say to people, the kinds of gatherings we’re used to – the parades, the fairs – we just can’t have that while we’re focusing on health right now.”
Later, de Blasio declared that painting the mural was not “denigrating” Fifth Avenue, as President Trump had tweeted, but “liberating&#8221; it.
President Trump had tweeted on July 1:
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&#8230;.horrible BLM chant, “Pigs In A Blanket, Fry ‘Em Like Bacon”. Maybe our GREAT Police, who have been neutralized and scorned by a mayor who hates &amp; disrespects them, won’t let this symbol of hate be affixed to New York’s greatest street. Spend this money fighting crime instead!
&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1278324681477689349?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 1, 2020</a></blockquote>
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De Blasio <a href="https://www.mediaite.com/tv/pure-racism-mayor-bill-de-blasio-rips-trump-for-denouncing-nycs-black-lives-matter-mural-in-front-of-trump-tower/">called Trump’s remarks</a> about the mural “pure racism” as he stated:
<blockquote>Wolf, it was such an important message. The people of this city believe black lives matter, and we wanted to send that message to our whole city, but to our whole nation. And in fact, here was an opportunity for the President of the United States to show respect for the fact that that’s what we value here. And what did he do? He literally tweeted that writing “Black Lives Matter” on Fifth Avenue would “denigrate the luxury of that avenue.” That is pure racism. That is acting like an acknowledgment of the value of black people is somehow belittling, when in fact what we’re trying to do is lift up people who have built this city and built America and haven’t been given their respect. And it can’t just be words, Wolf, it has to be actions.
So we’re taking resources from our police department and putting it into youth programs. We’re acknowledging institutional racism and coming up with specific plans to tear it down. We need to take this transcendent moment and get the most out of it. But the president, rather than having a chance to acknowledge America’s original sin, he literally made it worse by suggesting that honoring black people on Fifth Avenue would somehow make it less valuable or luxurious. I gotta tell you, people are outraged by that, but more importantly, they’re speaking out, and folks today felt jubilant and triumphant. We were not denigrating Fifth Avenue; we were liberating Fifth Avenue by putting those crucial words right there in front of President Trump’s building.</blockquote>
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Have you ever seen a more useless politician than Bill de Blasio?
This is just pathetic. <a href="https://t.co/3hiTW2aCn7">pic.twitter.com/3hiTW2aCn7</a>
&mdash; Benny (@bennyjohnson) <a href="https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1281319361937117184?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 9, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Bill DeBlasio has completely blown NYC’s budget, and his wife “misplaced” $800K through her Thrive NYC program that was supposed to help minority children but had had nothing to show for itself. This—painting—is how they try to distract from that. <a href="https://t.co/OUaE2DSWbf">https://t.co/OUaE2DSWbf</a>
&mdash; Allie Beth Stuckey (@conservmillen) <a href="https://twitter.com/conservmillen/status/1281348883210174465?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 9, 2020</a></blockquote>
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De Blasio Suggests Ban On Public Gatherings Like Parades Or Fairs. Black Lives Matter Protests Are Different.

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Attorney General William Barr weighed in on the current Black Lives Matter debate raging across the nation by agreeing that Black Americans have been policed differently than White Americans while rejecting the idea of systemic racism in law enforcement.
Speaking with <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/unfair-policing-african-americans-widespread-phenomenon-attorney-general/story?id=71673284">ABC News</a>, Barr said this unjust policing was a &#8220;widespread phenomenon&#8221; that deserves further examination.
“I do think that it is a widespread phenomenon that African American males, particularly, are treated with extra suspicion and maybe not given the benefit of the doubt,” Barr said. “I think it is wrong if people are not respected appropriately and given their due, and I think it’s something that we have to address.”
On George Floyd, a black man killed after a white Minneapolis police officer used his knee to pin Floyd’s neck to the ground for more than eight minutes, Barr said he hoped that Floyd will be &#8220;a catalyst for the kinds of changes that are needed.&#8221;
&#8220;I think before the George Floyd incident, I thought we were in a good place,” he said, later adding, “I think that this episode in Minneapolis showed that we still have some work to do in addressing the distrust that exists in the African American community toward law enforcement.&#8221;
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Barr, however, rejected calls to &#8220;defund the police,&#8221; arguing that law enforcement needs more investment.
“We have to think about more investment in the police,” he said. “So one of the things we’ve been talking about is trying to direct some of the [Health and Human Services] money and grant programs and sync it up with law enforcement spending so we can enable the departments to have co-responders. That is, social workers and mental health experts who can go on certain kinds of calls to help.”
Barr noted that the DOJ investigated a drug unit in Springfield, Massachusetts, that engaged in civil rights violations.
“We found, in that case, that there was a drug unit in the Springfield (Mass.) police department that was engaged in a pattern and practice of using excessive force,” Barr said.
Though Barr agreed with some of the tenets expressed in the Black Lives Matter movement, he made sure to separate the radical organization from the movement itself.
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&#8220;I make a distinction. I&#8217;d make a distinction between the organization, which I don&#8217;t agree with. They have a broader agenda,&#8221; Barr said. &#8220;But in terms of the proposition that black lives matter, obviously black lives matter. I think all lives, all human life, is sacred and entitled to respect. And obviously, black lives matter.”
&#8220;I also think that it&#8217;s being used now &#8230; sort of distorting the debate to some extent, because it&#8217;s used really to refer exclusively to black lives that are lost to police misconduct, which &#8230; have been going down statistically. Five years ago, there were 40 such incidents. This last year it was ten. So at least it&#8217;s a positive trajectory there. But then you compare it to 8,000 homicides in the African American community. Those are black lives that matter, too. And those are lives that are protected by the police,&#8221; he added.
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