Super Bowl champion and Utah congressional candidate Burgess Owens voiced strong criticism of the Black Lives Matter movement, calling it a “Marxist organization.”
“We are at a very clear crossroads in our country,” Owens, who is currently running to represent Utah’s 4th Congressional District, told Fox News host Martha MacCallum Thursday night. “We have one vision that says we the people are empowered by education, and we will give that power to the people and the other side is they want to empower themselves by stealing our education, stealing our history. Which should not be a surprise, and for those who can go to Google, you’ll find out that BLM inc. is nothing but a Marxist organization.”
Owens continued: “They hate God, they hate the family unit, the nuclear family, and they hate capitalism, so of course they are going to feel this way.”
The former NFL defensive back also referenced “mayhem and death” occurring in major cities across the country and “black business owners going out of business and black people being killed in the streets of Chicago.”
“We need to fight for our country against these Marxists and these bullies and cowards that are destroying everything they touch,” Owens added after referring to antifa rioters as “cowards.”
“We can’t stand by and let this happen.”
Owens has been joined in his criticism of Black Lives Matter as a Marxist movement by several other prominent black political commentators and media personalities, including Jason Whitlock, Niger Innis, and Carol Swain.
Patrisse Cullors, one of the co-founders of the Black Lives Matter organization, has openly referred to herself as a “trained Marxist.”
“The first thing, I think, is that we actually do have an ideological frame. Myself and Alicia, in particular, are trained organizers,” Cullors said in a 2015 interview, referencing fellow co-founder Alicia Garza. “We are trained Marxists. We are super-versed on, sort of, ideological theories. And I think that what we really tried to do is build a movement that could be utilized by many, many black folk.”
