Revealed: The British arm of Black Lives Matter's full agenda - abolish the police, smash capitalism... and close all prisons

Who are Black Lives Matter? Where did they come from and what, exactly, do they believe in?

These may seem silly questions. But in a month when Premier League footballers have joined Sir Keir Starmer and other British celebrities in ‘taking the knee’ to express their ‘collective support for the Black Lives Matter movement’, it is important that we ask them.

Ask most people who have protested on Britain’s streets following the killing of George Floyd and you will probably get one of two answers.

First, they will tell you that Black Lives Matter is a group appalled by police brutality against people of colour. It wishes to reform America’s lopsided justice system, which allows the black community, who make up about 13 per cent of the U.S. population, to account for 37 per cent of its prisoners and a disproportionate number of the thousand-odd people killed each year by its police.

Secondly, Black Lives Matter’s UK supporters will tell you it exists to campaign against the systemic racism that still exists in pockets of British society.

As they point out, economic and social inequality regrettably still affect swathes of our black and other minority communities, just as they do almost everywhere else in the Western world.

Both these motivations are entirely noble. So it is little wonder that — besides sparking lively debate about vandalised statues, the legacy of colonialism and our nation’s historic role in the slave trade — the recent protests have prompted many well-meaning people to make generous donations to this modish political cause.

In just over a fortnight, some 33,000 people have used the crowdfunding website GoFundMe to donate to an organisation calling itself ‘Black Lives Matter UK’. The group has raised almost a million pounds in the process.

On paper, Black Lives Matter UK — known on social media as @BLMUK — is the semi-official British offshoot of its American counterpart. It has been formally ‘verified’ as such by Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and other sites that carry its content — and is therefore highly influential as well as suddenly rich.

Yet while our country’s branch of the lobby group campaigns against police brutality and structural racism just as its transatlantic sibling does, those are not its only specific goals.

Indeed, while most donors and supporters may assume Black Lives Matter UK exists to lobby against racism, the group’s leaders, who remain largely anonymous, can use its financial muscle to pursue a smorgasbord of far-Left aims.

Some are extreme and many appear to have nothing to do with advancing racial equality.

On the group’s GoFundMe page, a statement outlining the Black Lives Matter UK policy agenda was uploaded a few days ago. It explains that the organisation intends to be ‘guided by a commitment to dismantle imperialism, capitalism, white supremacy, patriarchy and the state structures that disproportionately harm black people in Britain and around the world’.

Which is highly contentious. For while few would disagree that ‘white supremacy’, such as it exists in Britain, is a bad thing, the idea that ‘capitalism’ is intrinsically racist is a minority view.

If those behind Black Lives Matter UK really do intend to ‘dismantle’ capitalism, what might they wish to replace it with? And how would that benefit people of colour?

The only alternative system practised elsewhere in the world is communism. But as China’s Uighur Muslims, or the 1.5 million people from ethnic minorities who were deported or sent to gulags by Josef Stalin, would attest, that system can be very racist indeed.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8441405/The-avowed-aims-British-arm-Black-Lives-Matter.html


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Most are far left antifa cretins...

Even the BLM here is designed to push the political needle to the left, not necessarily make policing better.

Well...they would like fewer murders of black people. But otherwise, the police are the white mans' problem.

I’m sickened to the back teeth of this BLM movement. As a British black man with a strong affinity to this beautiful country I feel that this subversive movement has set race relations back at least 50 years!

https://twitter.com/geehuse/status/1274950149899464706

Clearly, BLM has more relevance to Americans. We have black citizens. We have slavery in our history. We have racism as a perennial issue and point of division.

I think the British have no direction for BLM.

I wonder why the leaders of BLM are anonymous.
That seems really odd to me.

Wow, they've raised £1,034,070 so far. I'd say global capitalism is well on the way to being dismantled!

Saved lives? I wouldn't be so quick to pin on the medals, just because they wear a uniform.

Original Quill wrote:Saved lives?  I wouldn't be so quick to pin on the medals, just because they wear a uniform.

Well they still saved lives.

Four police officers were injured (stabbed) in that effort; others approached the attackers despite the fact that they appeared to be wearing explosive vests. That's heroism.