Had to turn off! This film is propaganda!!! Anti BLM

BLM as a cause is not racist against white people. It is simply a movement to raise awareness that a lot of black people have recently been killed by police for no good reason, and that is not right. It is a call for a change in cultural attitudes and in police training, for which a lot of this is responsible.

That is the stated intention, and I've already said that there is nothing wrong with that. I was criticizing how it is being practiced, and I also have to wonder what ulterior motives and agendas lie beneath the stated intentions. I mean, if these people really, honestly believed that all police officers (especially white ones, but even black ones, too) were genocidal maniacs, then why aren't they afraid of getting killed by them while screaming in their faces (or worse)?

Now obviously these recent killings have caused a lot of fear and anger in some people, so it's only natural that this anger is going to come to the surface during any such protest or demonstration.

This fear and anger--which is one half of the vicious cycle of fear and anger between both police and the black community--has led to frequent instances of prejudice on both sides. Even when police officers justifiably defend themselves from armed subjects who resist arrest, the protesters still wave around signs calling them murderers and even literally accusing them of genocide. Either way, they don't wait for evidence or accept it--they automatically assume murder whenever a black man is shot and killed by police. This effectively makes BLM no better than those they accuse, and probably worse because BLM's prejudice is rather more constant.

It's a shame because it's not helping when it could be--ultimately it only helps promote the vicious cycle, and frankly it makes a lot of other people sick and tired, spreading hatred if anything.

It's not right that anyone should come to harm during such protests, and in all cases those individuals responsible should be punished appropriately, whatever side they're on.

That's not what I meant. I meant that BLM protesters are at least as guilty as those they accuse. Of course, generally, except for some really bad individuals, they don't shoot anyone, but then again they're not putting their lives on the line like police do. Sometimes certain cops do go too far, possibly for prejudicial reasons, and those potential cases of murder need the attention of BLM, but from what I've seen, repeatedly, BLM don't care about the facts of each case--they always assume guilt because of their own prejudice, and thereby undermine their own credibility, which helps get nothing good done.

But that doesn't mean the cause is wrong.

Again, to sum up, the basic, stated cause is perfectly legitimate--it's what these people actually do that makes them hypocrites and part of the problem instead of part of any potential solution.

There is certainly more to all of this, but I think I've said enough for this topic. The bottom line is that everyone--not just one "side" of this issue--needs to take a hard, honest look at what they're doing and try to do better. They need to recognize and break this vicious cycle. So far this has not been happening, and thus the cycle of fear and distrust on all sides is perpetuated.

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