Black Lives Matter Co-Founder: 'All Lives Matter' is a Racial Slur
"What it's gonna take to dismantle white supremacy is white folks actually gotta give up something."
2.24.2016
Posted on 02/25/2016 5:06:49 AM PST by SJackson
Jerome Hudson at Breitbart reports that Black Lives Matter co-founder Marissa Jenae Johnson told Fox News correspondent John Roberts that the phrase "all lives matter" - used to counter the "black lives matter" mantra - is a "new racial slur."
In a recent interview with Roberts, Johnson explained why "all lives matter" is a racial slur:
"White Americans have created the conditions that require a phrase like 'Black Likes Matter. Do you know how horrific it is to grow up as a child in a world that so hates you? While you're literally being gunned down in the street, while you're being rounded up and mass incarcerated and forced into prison slavery?"
Roberts didn't bother to challenge her on this, even though America is not "a world that so hates" blacks, even though prison is not the same as slavery, and even though there is no "mass incarceration" of blacks here. That phrase suggests that blacks are being rounded up en masse and herded into internment centers simply for being black, like the Japanese in World War II. The fact is that blacks who are incarcerated got there by committing serious crimes and being convicted of them as individuals in a court of law. Are blacks sometimes wrongly convicted? Tragically, yes, and that's something that must never be tolerated or left uncorrected. But Johnson does not acknowledge that blacks are a disproportionate number of convicts because they commit a hugely disproportionate number of crimes. She does not acknowledge that the vast majority of blacks "gunned down in the street" were violently resisting arrest like Ferguson's Michael Brown. She does not acknowledge that the black community bears any responsibility for its own condition.
"Black Lives Matter is not a strong enough statement for me," she added. If she really cared about black lives, she would acknowledge the scourges of black abortions and black-on-black crime. But those black lives don't push the proper narrative.
You may recall Johnson as the BLM activist who stormed the stage to interrupt candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders at a campaign rally last year. When Fox's Roberts asked her why she targeted "the far-left candidate" to protest, Johnson replied that Sanders is "left for white folks. He's left for the needs and concerns of mainstream white America."
"The Democrats have always been reliant on the black vote," Johnson added. "Part of what we're doing is waking black voters up to their power as a voting bloc within the Democratic party."
"Has the Democratic Party taken African-American voters for granted?" Roberts asked naively.
"Consistently, always," Johnson replied, laughing. "Always and forever."
And yet Roberts didn't ask her the next obvious line of questions: Then why not vote Republican for once? Why not get off the Democrat plantation if you're tired of being a victim? Why not reject the Democrat party's failure to elevate the black community? Of course, the notion of voting Republican would be unthinkable to her, because the right has been so effectively demonized as the party of rich, white racists.
When asked what needs to happen for progress to be made, Johnson threw out some vague proposals about taking down white supremacy:
"What it's gonna take to dismantle white supremacy is white folks actually gotta give up something. You have to actually sacrifice yourself. You have to be willing to give up the things that you currently benefit from."
She didn't specify what, but in any case there is no mainstream white supremacy in America. This is a country with a black President and First Lady, black Supreme Court justices, black attorney generals, black generals in the military, black CEOs, black Congresspeople and Senators, black attorneys, black judges, and on and on. There is no white supremacy apart from marginalized pockets of racist fools (remember, this is a country in which racist murderer Dylann Roof couldn't find anyone in person or online to join him in his massacre of Charleston churchgoers), nor is there any systemic white racism in America, where discrimination is illegal.
But that's how the Black Lives Matter movement must characterize America in order to justify its activism and its self-victimization.
Black racism doesn’t exist.
Ask any democrat.
alternatively, if black racist rabble rousers are exiled to lower slabovia, the imagined problems will cease to exist
Hillary agrees with this 100%.
...Black Lives Matter Co-Founder: ‘All Lives Matter’ is a Racial Slur...
Apparently the black lives matter slogan doesn’t apply on the south and west sides of Chicago. No lives seem to matter there.
“We have to have a serious discussion on Race”.?...as long as you listen AND act on our demands
No. Nothing is ever enough.
It’s quite clear, now, that the goal of the black power movement is simply to kill all whites.
Haiti and Zimbabwe provide examples.
Their God Emperor Barack promised to fundamentally transform America.
He wasn’t kidding.
Neither was Hitler.
Like I said. It’s about taking Whitey’s money, and then turning him into a second class citizen with no rights.
As it is now, Whitey can be kicked out of college for no reason, when a non-Whitey accuses him of racism.
Her message is blacks take no responsibilty for their actions. What a way to live. I see no hope for improvement with that attitude.
White folks gotta give up something? I suppose, though she’d never admit it, that means in addition to paying taxes disproportionately, giving up places in university and job promotions/hiring, no matter how qualified, because a “diversity quota” has to be met, not having the freedom of association which is granted to every other group, being jacked one way and the other depending on whether blacks decide they want segregation one day and don’t the next, then do again, all depending on what suits them in the moment, and more? Having the disproportionate interracial crime rates (black on white being higher than white on black by far, eapecially in the rates of rape) be utterly ignored by the media and the public, and instead having a false narrative-no, a plain old lie-being pushed about a “war on blacks”? Accepting every excuse under the sun, no matter how convoluted and obscene, about how every black failure can be traced to oppressive whites, white privilege, etc?
I know what they want. They want a free pass, a complete one, for anything they choose to do, and they want the costs footed by whites in the name of “reparations”. When their communities still flow with blood shed by blacks of blacks, and every penn they might receive in “reparations” still flows right back into the bank accounts of whites and Asians, they will still cry foul.
They will continue to ignore the “reparation” of rivers of white blood spilled to free slaves, all the wealth redistribution of the past many decades in the name of “welfare”, all the black privilege received in the name of affirmative action and quotas.
As long as whites give credence to these lies, they will never be off the hook.
Hey, Marissa: if white people really hated you as much as you claim, you would already be dead.
I actually wasted a few minutes reading this just to see if he could justify this statement. I was anticipating some entertainingly twisted logic but alas, they just let this assertion hang out there unfounded and unsupported.
Do you know how horrific it is to grow up as a child in a world that so hates you? While you're literally being gunned down in the street, while you're being rounded up and mass incarcerated and forced into prison slavery?"
Two thoughts here. One, this guy is scarily delusional. I mean, is that how he really sees America? Maybe my neighborhood is slacking 'cause I haven't seen a KKK posse since ... well, ever. Maybe I should go ask my next door neighbor, he's black, he could probably use a good laugh. I could ask him what it's like to run the gauntlet every day to his 6 figure IT job...
Two, people (of any race) tend to get "rounded up" and thrown in prison (which is not slavery BTW, it is punishment) because they are breaking the law. Real simple here sparky, see if you can stay with me on this: stop committing crimes and you'll stop going to prison. How about that, the "change" you're looking for is right there with you! You have the power!
Andrew Wilkow (a radio host) was talking yesterday about some t-shirts he’s had made that say, “No Lives Matter.” I wonder what kind of slur that is ...
I believe you’re absolutely correct, and they don’t seem to care that without whites, they will revert to living in third world conditions, if not worse. South Africa is already finding out the truth of this, though they stubbornly forge ahead with the agenda of forcing qualified experienced whites out of jobs which affect the quality of life and first world status of the country, such as being able to provide plentiful and reliable power.
An amusing aside-they decided to fire as many as possible of the white punlic utility workers, only to find that their black replacements either couldn’t or wouldn’t climb tall ladders, and couldn’t fit into the manholes.
Penalty for returning to US? Life in prison in Nome, AK.
During & after the Civil War, there were dead bodies lying
(unburied for a long time) all over this country. Over-
whelming! Northern & Southern.
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