Pulling back from BLM

Both merlot. I find football teams wearing black lives matter
on their football shirts - hypocrisy . For years black footballers
have endured verbal racist abuse but the teams play on , if they had stopped play it would have done more than wearing
the shirts.

merlotgran

I'm always amazed at how quickly some people, usually celebs or those with a 'platform' align themselves to causes that have burst on to the scene.

Do they bother with any research or available advice? Are they bowing to pressure from media bosses or do they just eagerly pin on the badge in order to up their own profiles?

What I've been saying all along, merlotgran

It baffles me that people do no research at all

American friends of mine, (not Trump fans/various ethnic backgrounds) are amazed to see our police and leaders of political parties dropping to their knees

BLM is an organisation

Their aim of stopping police brutality is laudable

But there's no denying it is also a far left Marxist organisation

nypost.com/2020/06/25/blm-co-founder-describes-herself-as-trained-marxist/

I'm always amazed at how quickly some people, usually celebs or those with a 'platform' align themselves to causes that have burst on to the scene.

Do they bother with any research or available advice? Are they bowing to pressure from media bosses or do they just eagerly pin on the badge in order to up their own profiles?

That’s very wise of them.

Maybe they have investigated the background of the BLM organisation and discovered that their aims include disbanding the police and emptying prisons.

It’s the same old anti establishment nonsense which rears it’s ugly head from time to time.

I wonder how many of the participants in the recent demonstrations knew exactly what they are campaigning for?

I do think the BLM UK website has been taken over by extremists, it it right to say that black lives matter, but perhaps without the capitals.

They are the few, not the many. It is essentially a good movement designed to try to make progress towards equal rights.

Not every black person will support it. Doesn't mean it's not a power for good.

There are extremists who attach themselves to most causes, and these people are examples of it.