Shoots really? Funnily enough I do not think BLM is a movement that will get to a point that it is in government. Also that is the US manifesto
No.
That is the verified, UK BLM account.
Mumsnet will block my link, but they have a gofndme with a million quid donated with the exact same identical words, and in addition these:
" How we’ll spend the funds!
- Developing and delivering training, police monitoring and strategies for the abolition of police. "
Where do you sit on the right to equality for black people? That is a very simple question
In favour. As I'm sure is the overwhelming majority of the population in this country.
But the identifiable BLM leadership is clearly very very far to the left of what most people would agree with.
They don't seem to be on the same planet or page:
COVER THE CUT!
Crowdfunding platforms like Gofndme take a percentage of the money being donated. With Gofndme the transaction fee is 2.9% + 25p per donation.
We use Gof*ndme as an accessible and trusted platform to fundraise through. So to ensure that we receive the full amount donated we are asking for organisation, business or corporation to pledge to make up the shortfall.
Payment processing is not free. Gofndme doesn't profit from that fee. They do* ask people to give them a 'tip', which they do profit from. But that's not required.
There is no possible way for BLM to raise money completely for free, and Gof*ndme is vastly cheaper than options offered previously and in many countries, but they make out that they are somehow being bled dry.
Their leadership is unidentified and unaccountable:
Amongst calls for transparency and demands to reveal the leadership behind BLM UK, we are currently dealing with emergency legal matters following last week’s protests in addition to the hostility of far-right groups. This is a genuine threat to our safety and, whilst organisation and process plans for the fund are soon to be shared, we thank you for your patience, but cannot compromise our safety at this time. Some of us are already public-facing figures and have spoken out as members of BLM UK.
Their goals are extreme.
Most people disagree with them.
Most people are opposed to racism. But to the extent that BLM has identifiable goals and leadership they are not at all in accordance with most people's views.
This language is bollocks:
"Our commitment to all black lives means that we lift up the experiences of the most marginalised in our communities, including but not limited to working class queer, trans, undocumented, disabled, Muslim, sex workers, women/non-binary, HIV+ people"
Wants to smash capitalism but in favour of the sex trade.
Incapable of ejaculating the word 'women' without appending the idiotic drivel that is 'non-binary'.
The UK Taxpayer was paying for the Reparations of UK slave owners up until 2015, as reported by the Bank of England. If it was possible for Reparations to be given to slave owners and their families, including David Cameron’s, then the reparations of black people dealing with generational trauma and institutional racism is wholly possible. The redistribution of wealth is a key factor of allyship in 2020.
This is bollocks. The compensation was paid to slave owners between 1835 and 1837. The bill went straight onto the national debt which has never reached £0 and never will, so it makes no sense to claim that this was paid off in 2015.
No, I don't think most people agree that 'the redistribution of wealth is a key factor of allyship in 2020. '
We fight for our extended black family dying across the globe before and during the Global lockdown. Nineteen year old Adil, killed by police in Belgium. Seventeen year old Tina, killed by police in Nigeria. Thirteen year old Yasin, killed by police in Kenya. Thirty four year old Winston, killed by police in the Philippines
Winston was not black. He was a Filipino ex-soldier. That he was not black is highly likely from the facts they present there and is indeed the case, so it's hard to imagine that his inclusion was accidental, but elsewhere they say:
We assure you all organisers involved with BLM UK are Black (not politically black, Black and of the African and Caribbean diaspora) and the funds raised will be diligently used to transform the nature of Black life in the UK through intentional and national infrastructure building, support of existing Black-led groups and organisations across the country in addition to campaigning for the demands we pose to the powers that be.
which seems to be clearly limiting this to people who are of black African descent.
So there rhetoric doesn't even make sense, even if you ignore the fact most people would consider it an extremist one. And people have sent them a million quid? (and far more from corporate donations I'm sure)
Most people abhor racism. But if you have an identifiable movement with leaders and goals, and those goals are roughly the same in the UK and the US, then it really doesn't make a lot of sense to say 'no, actually BLM just means you think slave trading is bad', because actually, no, there is a real structure and real cash going towards actual goals.