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Jan. 6, 2017 - Sargon of Akkad - Carl Benjamin
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The Ideological Root of #BlackLivesMatter
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So by now you've undoubtedly seen the torture video that was live streamed to Facebook on someone's personal Facebook by one of the alleged people involved.
One of the main points of contention is people mistaking these people for Black Lives Matter activists due to the rhetoric they were using while they were torturing the young man.
Police have found no direct links between the people committing the act and the Black Lives Matter movement, so it seems that the use of this language was incidental.
The suspects are facing several charges, among them is the charge of a hate crime.
The attorney's office said that they are being charged with aggravated kidnapping, aggravated unlawful restraint, aggravated battery with a deadly weapon, and residential burglary.
They are also charged with a hate crime.
Although Chicago police did say that they don't believe he was targeted because he was white, despite profanities made by the accused assailants about white people and President-elect Donald Trump, they instead believe that the man was targeted because of his special needs and not his race.
But special needs is a category that is protected under hate crime laws, and so this does count as a hate crime, just not a racially motivated one.
Many people were annoyed at the authorities' apparent attempt to downplay what had happened, saying, you know, although they are adults, they're 18, kids make stupid, I shouldn't call them kids, they're legally adults, but they're young adults, and they make stupid decisions.
I don't think that kidnapping a man for 48 hours and torturing him while live streaming it on Facebook counts as a stupid decision.
It is clearly sadism that they demonstrate in this livestream, where they are laughing at torturing this kid.
These people are responsible for their own actions, and there is, as I've said, no direct link between them and Black Lives Matter.
And it's important to note that the Chicago branch of Black Lives Matter have openly denounced this on Twitter, which is to their credit.
But this leaves us with the question, why were so many people so ready to accept that Black Lives Matter was responsible for this?
And the answer lies in the rhetoric the torturers were using.
What?
They're Donald Trump!
White people, boy!
No!
The mainstream media, the progressive press, are acting as if they have no idea why people would think that Black Lives Matter would say something like, fuck Donald Trump or fuck white people.
They're acting as if they just simply don't know.
And I'm sorry, you know that is entirely disingenuous, and if you don't, I'm just going to hold your hand through the repeated racial abuse that Black Lives Matter supporters hand out to people whenever they are covered by any kind of media outlet.
There are many examples, such as, kill white people.
Black Lives Matter graffiti in Florida alarms residents.
Graffiti that reads, kill white people and Black Lives Matter has angered residents in Florida's Hillsborough County after protesters left the message at two separate locations.
Police were investigating this week the graffiti markings found in Brandon, a small community near Tampa in central Florida, according to media reports.
But this isn't necessarily a Black Lives Matter issue, because this could have been a false flag attack, as we saw in the example of a black man burning an African-American church and painting vote Trump on the walls in order to try and frame Trump supporters.
So we will disregard this example.
We can't ignore the example of Black Lives Matter protesters disrupting students in the Dartmouth University Library, screaming, fuck you, you filthy white fucks.
In a critical editorial, the conservative Dartmouth Review listed some epithets held by the protesters.
Fuck you, you filthy white fucks.
Fuck you and your comfort.
Fuck you, you racist shits.
In addition, the review reports that some of the protesters became physically violent.
Men and women alike were pushed and shoved by the group.
If we can't have it, shut it down, they cried.
Another woman was pinned to a wall by protesters who unleashed their insults, shouting, filthy white bitch in her face.
This is not an isolated event.
It is part of a larger pattern.
there is this example from the 2016 riots in charlotte you're talking to philadelphia right now hey what up philly i don't got no family out there but i love y'all black people white people is hypocrites They're barbaric.
Okay, so kill all white people.
you really feel no i didn't i said white lives don't matter see see that's that's your white that's your white what they call it uh yellow journalism but this is live let me ask you this do you really believe that white lives don't matter of course i'm not a liar like you you just lied on me on live tv is this really live this is live tv philadelphia black power Black power, white lives do not matter.
You told white lives don't matter.
If only all of the bigots were so open.
He's not a liar.
He just thinks white lives don't matter.
The Charlotte protests were over the shooting of Keith Lamont Scott, and this is what his brother had to say about white people.
Guys, is there anything we should know?
Just know that all white people are fucking devils.
And make sure you air that shit.
All white cops are fucking devils and white people.
All white cops and white people are fucking devils.
They want you to hear that.
That's their opinion and they are not afraid to tell you.
There appears to be a general conflation of white people and police amongst Black Lives Matter supporters and protesters.
So it should come as no surprise that some of these Charlotte protesters simply don't believe that a black cop killed Keith Lamont Scott.
They say, I don't believe it was a black cop.
That's just what they're telling us.
Well, that's the white supremacy for you.
But it's this conflation between white people and police that makes Black Lives Matter protests like this one so disturbing.
There have been many calls for violence that have come out of Black Lives Matter protests.
And often these kind of callous racist statements come from the founders of Black Lives Matter chapters themselves, such as Toronto Black Lives Matter co-founder who asked Allah for strength not to kill white people.
The full tweet reads, please Allah give me strength not to cuss/slash kill these white men and white folks out here today.
Please, please, please.
Kigali has made violent statements before.
At a Rani Outside Police Headquarters, she spoke into a megaphone saying, if you think this is the end, you are irresponsible.
It is irresponsible for you to feel safe.
Do you hear me, police?
Do you hear me police?
It is irresponsible for you to feel safe.
If we are not safe, you are not safe.
And this should come as no surprise as this is the ideological root of the Black Lives Matter hashtag, as told to us by one of the people who created the tag in the first place.
Alicia Gaza says, I created hashtag Black Lives Matter with Patrice Collars and Opal Tometi, two of my sisters, as a call to action for black people after 17-year-old Trayvon Martin was posthumously placed on trial for his own murder and the killer, George Zimmerman, was not held accountable for the crime he committed.
It was a response to anti-black racism that permeates our society and also, unfortunately, our movements.
In 2014, heteropatriarchy and anti-black racism within our movement is real and felt.
It's killing us and killing our potential to build power for transformative social change.
When you adopt the work of queer women of colour, don't name or recognize it and promote it as if it had no history of its own.
Such actions are problematic.
When I use Asarta's powerful demand in organizing my work, I always begin by sharing where it comes from, sharing about Asata's significance to the Black Liberation Movement and its political purpose and message is, and why it's important in our context.
Here's an excerpt from her demand to my people.
Black brothers, black sisters, I want you to know that I love you and I hope somewhere in your hearts you have love for me.
My name is Asata Shakur, slave name Joanne Chesimard.
Yes, she actually uses slave name.
And I'm a revolutionary, a black revolutionary.
By that, I mean I have declared war on all forces that have raped our women, castrated our men, and kept our babies empty-bellied.
I have declared war on the rich who prosper on our poverty, the politicians who lie to us with smiling faces, and all the mindless, heartless robots who protect them and their property.
I am a black revolutionary, and as such, I'm a victim of all the wrath, hatred, and slander that Amerika is capable of.
Like all other black revolutionaries, Amerika is trying to lynch me.
I am a black revolutionary, and by definition, that makes me a part of the Black Liberation Army.
The pigs have used their newspapers and TVs to paint the Black Liberation Army as vicious, brutal, mag dog killers.
They have called us gangsters and gun moles and have compared us to such characters as John Dillinger and Mar Barker.
It should be clear, it must be clear to anyone who can think, see, or hear that we are the victims, the victims and not the criminals.
It ends with this refrain that is being chanted across university campuses all across America.
It is our duty to fight for our freedom.
It is our duty to win.
We must love each other and support each other.
We have nothing to lose but our chains.
It is our duty to fight.
It is our duty to fight.
It is our duty to win.
It is our duty to win!
We have nothing to lose but our chains.
We are nothing to lose but our chains.
It is our duty to fight.
It is our duty to fight.
It is our duty to win.
It is our duty to free.
We have nothing to lose but our chains.
We have nothing to lose but our chains.
It is our duty to fight.
It is our duty to fight.
It is our duty to win.
It is our duty to win.
We have nothing to lose.
We have nothing to lose.
We have nothing to lose but our chains.
We have nothing to lose but our chains.
It is our duty to fight.
It is our duty to fight.
It is our duty to win.
It is our duty to win.
We must love each other and protect each other.
We must love each other and protect each other.
We have nothing to lose but our chains.
We have nothing to lose our chains.
It is our duty to fight.
It is our duty to fight.
It is our duty to win.
It is our duty to win.
We must love each other and protect each other.
We must love each other and protect each other.
We are not duty to lose but our chains.
We are nothing to lose our chains.
It is our duty to fight for freedom.
It is our duty to win!
It is our duty to win!
We must love and protect one another!
We must love and protect one another!
We have nothing to lose but our chains!
We have nothing to lose but our chains!
I say it is our duty to fight for our freedom!
It is our duty to fight for our freedom!
It is our duty to win!
It is our duty to win!
We must love each other!
We must love each other!
We must support each other!
We must support each other!
We have nothing to lose but our chains!
We have nothing to lose but our chains!
It is our duty to fight for our freedom!
It is our duty to fight for our freedom!
It is our duty to win!
It is our duty to win!
We must love each other!
We must love each other!
We must support each other!
We must support each other!
We have nothing!
We have nothing to lose!
To lose but our chains!
Burst!
We have nothing to lose but our chains!
We have a duty to fight.
We have a duty to fight.
We have a duty to win.
We have a duty to win.
We must all protect one another.
We must all protect one another.
We have nothing to lose but our chains.
We have nothing to lose but our chains.
We have a duty to fight.
We have a duty to fight.
We have a duty to win.
We have a duty to win.
We must love and protect one another.
We must love and protect one another.
We have nothing to lose but our chains.
We have nothing to lose but our chains.
We have a duty to fight.
We have a duty to fight.
We have a duty to win.
We have a duty to win.
We must love and protect one another.
We must love and protect one another.
We have nothing to lose but our chains!
This undeniable cult behavior is being built on the radical, revolutionary ideology of a black power ideologue.
The sort of person who murdered a policeman and then fled to Cuba where she resides on the FBI's most wanted list.
And the thing is, attacks by black people against white people on the basis that they are white are something that happens.
It's just something that occurs.
Toronto.
Man yells, fuck white people during machete attack and is not charged with a hate crime.
An African-American man from Queens, New York who yelled, fuck white people before launching an unprovoked machete attack on a random 30-year-old white male outside of Mall in Toronto is being charged with attempted murder, aggravated assault, assault with a weapon, possession of a weapon, but he's not being charged with a hate crime.
Obviously, if the races were reversed in this situation.
But as with the recent kidnapping and torture, there's nothing specifically linking this attack to Black Lives Matter.
But that doesn't mean that there aren't also attacks that happen that are directly linked to Black Lives Matter.
And given the violent revolutionary ideology that underpins it, I'm hardly surprised.
Veterans brutally attacked by Black Lives Matter says Army Staff Sergeant.
He said that race has everything to do with it.
As I was getting my face stomped in and thrown through a window, all four of them were yelling racial slurs about how whites sucked and black lives were better.
Something along those lines in case you were wondering.
What about a 17 year old white Alabama kid who was beaten inches from death by Black Lives Matter supporters?
This was at a high school and the principal knew about these threats in advance from pro-Black Lives Matter students.
This kid was being targeted because he supported the police.
And so the police have issued a statement to say that they don't know whether it's a hate crime or not.
Well, it might not be.
It might simply be because of his political affiliation.
But what difference does it make?
This kid was hospitalized because of his political opinion.
And this was done to him by a group of black students who have been radicalized by Black Lives Matter.
And you actually have people in defense of this kind of thing, such as a black lawyer who says, free anyone charged with murdering whites.
Black people are lucky enough to get on a jury that could use the power to acquit any person charged with a crime against white men and white male institutions.
It's not about the race of the defendant, but if the alleged victim is a white guy or his bank or his position or his authority, we could acquit.
Assault, acquit.
Burglary, acquit.
Insider trading, acquit.
Murder?
What the hell do you think is happening to black people out here?
What the hell do you think we're complaining about when your cops shoot us or choke us?
Acquit!
This is something that intellectual black people with legal training talk about.
Honestly, what the hell do you expect us to do?
How do white people think we're supposed to react when we watch cops murder us and get away with it over and over again?
We're just supposed to take it, wait for America to produce nicer white people.
The options for black America in the face of this state-sponsored injustice seem pretty limited.
Where does this ideology not have supporters?
Why is the mainstream media not calling this out?
These activists dichotomize this as a race war between blacks and whites, and this is radicalizing people who don't even understand the ideology.
The most egregious example comes from the Milwaukee riots.
Finish it!
And that is it.
He's white, beat him.
He's white, get them.
Get the white people.
That's what Black Lives Matter has radicalized these protesters into thinking.
Here is the first-hand account of a Politico journalist, and Politico are renowned for their neutrality and objectivity.
You're Asian, right?
Why are you even here?
What I learned when I was attacked and spared because of my race at a Black Lives Matter protest.
I can see from your face that you don't think you're safe, he told me.
He was black.
I'm Chinese American.
You are.
You're a minority too.
Shortly after I arrived, the beginnings of a shoving match between a line of policemen in riot gear and the distraught residents of the neighborhood.
I was the only non-black person there at the time.
The other news crews had left, and my presence was soon questioned.
Some pointed me out as an interloper.
Others, like the reassuring activist, told me I would be fine.
I brushed off the more hostile comments as much as I could.
They were angry, and anger doesn't always hit its intended target.
As the confrontation went on, the crowd became more and more violent.
What started as shoving and rock throwing escalated into smashing cars and setting businesses aflame.
By nightfall, I was crouching behind a Chevy suburban to avoid bullets.
Another intern, a white man who had later arrived on the scene to take photos, huddled beside me.
After the gunfire ceased, he emerged from behind the car to take more pictures while I stayed behind.
Get your white ass out of here, he soon heard.
You better not let me fucking catch you.
After trying unsuccessfully to defuse the situation, my colleague was flying down the street with a group of men chasing him.
Wanting to help, but not knowing how, I decided to run after them.
In order to run faster, my colleague dropped the two bulky cameras hanging around his neck.
When I tried to retrieve them and yelled at him to get out of the area, some in the group of rioters started chasing after me too.
As the former back of the pack runner in middle school gym class, I wasn't surprised when they caught me.
They threw me to the ground, I reflexively curled up into a ball.
Blows landed on my back, head, and torso.
Stop.
He's not white, he's Asian.
I wasn't sure who said it or how they knew my race, but within seconds the punches stopped.
Someone grabbed me by the arm and lifted me up.
As my vision came back into focus, I saw a group of concerned black faces and I heard someone repeating, don't fuck with Chinese dudes.
My attacker had run off.
Those who had intervened escorted me to safety.
The only reason this man was spared is because they realized he wasn't white.
Until then, they had mistaken him for a white man and had proceeded to beat him on the floor because of it.
There is no excusing this.
That is a hate crime.
These people are perpetrating hate crimes.
And the worst part about this is the constant excuses being made by this journalist himself.
Listen to this.
What I was really afraid of though is that the incident would stoke their distrust of Black Lives Matter.
While I don't condone the attacks on my Journal Sentinel colleague and me, I don't think our experience represents the movement overall.
I'm sorry, I think it does.
I think that when a bunch of radical black activists take a criminal who is currently in exile as their leader, as their ideological inspiration for the entire thing, and then that translates down the line to you being at a Black Lives Matter protest and being beaten based on your race, and it turns out they made a mistake and then stop when they discover you aren't white.
That is reflective of Black Lives Matter.
Not all of them, maybe not every single one, but clearly enough for this to be a persistent problem with the movement.
It produces violent radicals who will attack people on racial grounds.
This is irredeemable.
I can only imagine the hell that would be unleashed if this was a black person being beaten for being black at a Ku Klux Klan rally.
Black Lives Matter should be treated like the Ku Klux Klan because they are two sides of the same rotten coin.
They are just racial supremacy movements.
This is the ideological root of Black Lives Matter.
If you support that, then you support this.
You support the radicalization of black people against white people.
That's what Black Lives Matter is, fundamentally, at its most basic.
That's what the ideology is in Black Lives Matter.
I can't believe I have to keep explaining this, but by God, I am sick of apologists in the mainstream media constantly making excuses.
And of course, I'm not surprised at all when these very same apologists will lie directly about me.
Ex-Gawker property Gizmodo printed this.
Alt-right trolls use Chicago kidnapping to spread lies about Black Lives Matter.
Paul Joseph Watson started the hashtag BLM Kidnapping, and it's fair to criticise him for doing this.
There is no evidence that Black Lives Matter is connected to the four torturers.
They use the same rhetoric, but that does not mean they are necessarily the same, but as we've seen, that doesn't mean Black Lives Matter are completely ameliorated.
However, he did jump the gun.
He didn't know, and he used that for propaganda value.
The author of this article, Brian Menigus, then claimed that I carried on accusing Black Lives Matter of this as well.
A statement that is simply not true.
Naturally, I confronted him about this on Twitter and asked him, is there any reason that you decided to lie about me in your article?
I stated outright that these people were not connected to Black Lives Matter.
He then quotes a tweet that I did put out saying, silence from the usual progressive race-baiting outlets over BLM kidnapping is deafening.
That's not me saying Black Lives Matter are responsible for BLM kidnapping, the event that became known on Twitter as BLM kidnapping.
And he accuses me of adding credence to a hashtag that forwards that agenda.
Well, I'm sorry, Brian, but I use the Black Lives Matter hashtag all the time.
I'll probably use it in the title of this video.
Does that make me a supporter of Black Lives Matter?
Or is it that hashtags are a way of having a conversation on Twitter?
This is the way that people who are interested in having the same conversation organize and coordinate.
And it was up to Encyclopedia Dramatica to call him out on this lie.
He then decided to accuse me of being responsible for other people's actions, saying a quick collection of your followers' responses to those tweets.
You knew this caused confusion and did nothing to rectify.
Total nonsense.
I specifically did not cause confusion.
And if he'd actually read these tweets, he would see that this was not as he thinks.
There are people in here calling me out saying, does the KKK represent all white people?
Or there are people there saying, well, do you have any evidence of this?
And me saying, no, but that's what's trending, which is why I'm using it.
Or other people saying, look, it's just a hashtag.
You can't accuse people of lending it credence.
Unless, of course, he thinks I am that credible.
Which I take the compliment.
He simply doesn't care that he's lying.
He thinks he can get away with it if he twists what I've actually said to try and fit his agenda.
He has done nothing but guilt by association and accusing me of controlling other people as if the people following me on Twitter are card-carrying members of a club or an organization of which I am in charge.
This total nonsense would have been slightly less bad if I hadn't already done a live stream which I will link in the description, which in the first minute of which I say this.
So we're going to be talking about the BLM kidnapping.
So as I am aware, what we know so far is that, was it four 18-year-old black kids, two men, two women, kidnapped a mentally handicapped or some sort of special needs kid on the basis that he's white, tortured him for about half an hour while live streaming on Facebook, shouting things like, fuck Donald Trump, fuck white people.
And they were basically using him as the scapegoat for this political sort of position.
People are using the hashtag BLM kidnapping, even though there's no evidence to tie them specifically to Black Lives Matter.
So I think that's important to state from the outset.
Oh, yeah.
I have to say, I'm quite annoyed.
And Robin, I'm sure you'll be annoyed at the same sort of thing with people tying this directly to Black Lives Matter in the same way that, you know, anytime he needs Sarkeesian got a nasty message on Twitter, people.
Oh, of course.
I was part of Gamergate.
I was a strong supporter of the Gamergate hashtag.
And I know how frustrating it was to have every single little thing that happens attached to your hashtag, whether it was part or not, regardless of the actual evidence.
And that was the very first thing that we talked about.
There is nothing connecting this and Black Lives Matter to the best of our knowledge.
But that doesn't mean that Black Lives Matter is entirely innocent in this situation.
Black Lives Matter is an ideologically supremacist movement with the goal of radicalizing black people against what they call the white supremacist capitalist patriarchy.
And this is manifested, in their opinion, in white people themselves, which is why Black Lives Matter supporters indiscriminately target white people at their violent rallies.
I am so, so tired of them being protected because they are black.
And that's what the mainstream media is doing.
That's what the police are doing when they refuse to classify these attacks as hate crimes.
This is institutional protection of a racist movement.
If the police were downplaying KKK crimes, then I would have exactly the same opinion because there is precisely zero fucking difference between the two movements.
But again, it should come as no surprise to me that these people are being defended by progressive ideologues and that these people will lie about me in particular, calling me alt-right and saying that I absolutely did something that I did not because they think they can keep their feet steady on the shifting sands of public opinion.
They can't.
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