Kanye West only really cares about getting attention. But even the worst attention hog can stumble across a good point: Black Lives Matter was a scam from the beginning.
“Everyone knows Black Lives Matter was a scam,” West said. He’s right. The Black Lives Matter movement was built on the lie that Michael Brown was a poor, defenseless victim of a racist police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, in 2015. The myth that he submitted and was shot anyway — “Hands up, don’t shoot” — was a lie. Physical evidence showed that Brown attacked Officer Darren Wilson and attempted to get his gun before he was shot.
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Democratic politicians wanted to stoke the flames of racial division heading into the 2016 election, and so they indulged the fiction that Brown was some kind of victim or martyr. But the Justice Department, under Attorney General Eric Holder and President Barack Obama, confirmed that Wilson did nothing wrong.
Despite being built on a lie, Black Lives Matter became the hobbyhorse of Democratic politicians, celebrities, and establishment media. Whenever an unarmed black person was shot by police — it happens slightly less often than unarmed white people getting shot by police, according to the Washington Post police shooting database — the media go out of their way to make it a national story. Sometimes, they’ll even make it a national story if the person in question was armed and dangerous.
Even incidents that spawned justifiable outrage were then warped to portray all police officers as racists and to insinuate that society at large is to blame for these deaths. But they aren’t. Police are not racists who hunt black people.
Ignored by Black Lives Matter were the thousands of black lives that didn’t matter to activists. The Washington Post database lists 145 unarmed black people killed by police since 2015. Some of those unarmed cases include incidents like Brown’s, but unmentioned go all the black people murdered by non-police officers every year. In 2019 alone, for example, 7,484 black people were murdered. Democratic politicians and activists will mourn a criminal like Brown, but 7,000 black murder victims killed by non-police just don’t matter.
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And then, of course, there is the actual financial scam. A Washington Examiner investigation found that millions in funds had gone unaccounted for at the Black Lives Matter organization. California and Washington, two states run by Democrats, ordered the organization to cease all fundraising. The BLM Global Network Foundation took in $77 million in 2020, which then went on to line the pockets of its executives and their families. That $6 million mansion in Los Angeles was necessary for racial justice, don’t you see?
From the beginning, Black Lives Matter was a scam. The movement was built on a lie and was channeled toward anti-police sentiment, exploited by Democratic politicians who think stoking racism helps them and know that talking about the homicides in the cities they run would not. The financial scam was simply the icing on the cake of the political scam, and it’s a scam that Democratic politicians and liberal activists (and journalists) will continue to push without a hint of regret or introspection.
