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THE AGENDA OF BLACK LIVES MATTER IS FAR DIFFERENT FROM THE SLOGAN

Commentary by Mike Gonzalez and Andrew Olivastro
The Heritage Foundation

Many see the slogan Black Lives Matter as a plea to secure the right to
life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness for all Americans, especially
historically wronged African Americans. They add the BLM hashtag to their
social-media profiles, carry BLM signs at protests, and make financial
donations.

Tragically, when they do donate, they are likely to bankroll a number of
radical organizations, founded by committed Marxists whose goals aren’t
to make the American Dream a reality for everyone—but to transform
America completely.

This might be unknown to some of the world’s best-known companies, which
have jumped on the BLM bandwagon. Brands like Airbnb and Spanx have
promised direct donations.

True, others like Nike and Netflix have shrewdly channeled their donations
elsewhere, like the NAACP and other organizations that have led the
struggle for civil rights for decades. These companies are likely aware of
BLM’s ­extreme agenda and recoil from bankrolling destructive ideas. But
it requires sleuthing to learn this.

Companies that don’t do this hard work are providing air cover for a
destructive movement and compelling their employees, shareowners and
customers to endorse the same. Just ask BLM leaders Alicia Garza, Patrisse
Cullors and Opal Tometi. In a revealing 2015 interview, Cullors said,
“Myself and Alicia in particular are trained organizers. We are trained
Marxists.” That same year, Tometi was hobnobbing with Venezuela’s
Marxist dictator Nicolás Maduro, of whose regime she wrote: “In these
last 17 years, we have witnessed the Bolivarian Revolution champion
participatory democracy and construct a fair, transparent election system
recognized as among the best in the world.”

Millions of Venezuelans suffering under Maduro’s murderous misrule
presumably couldn’t be reached for comment.

Visit the Black Lives Matter website, and the first frame you get is a
large crowd with fists raised and the slogan “Now We Transform.” Read
the list of demands, and you get a sense of how deep a transformation they
seek.

One proclaims: “We disrupt the Western-prescribed
nuclear-family-structure requirement by supporting each other as extended
families and ‘villages’ that collectively care for one another.”

A partner organization, the Movement for Black Lives, or M4BL, calls for
abolishing all police and all prisons. It also calls for a “progressive
restructuring of tax codes at the local, state and federal levels to ensure
a radical and sustainable redistribution of wealth.”

Another M4BL demand is “the retroactive decriminalization, immediate
release and record ­expungement of all drug-related offenses and
prostitution and reparations for the devastating impact of the ‘war on
drugs’ and criminalization of prostitution.”

This agenda isn’t what most people signed up for when they bought their
Spanx or registered for Airbnb. Nor is it what most people understood when
they ­expressed sympathy with the slogan that Black Lives Matter.

Garza first coined the phrase in a July 14, 2013, Facebook post the day
George Zimmerman was acquitted of murdering Trayvon Martin. Her friend
Cullors put the hashtag in front and joined the words, so it could travel
through social media. Tometi thought of creating an ­actual digital
platform, BlackLivesMatter.com.

The group became a self-styled global network in 2014 and a “fiscally
sponsored project” of a separate progressive nonprofit in 2016, according
to Robert Stilson of the Capital Research Center. This evolution has helped
embolden an agenda vastly more ambitious than just #DefundthePolice.

The goals of the Black Lives Matter organization go far beyond what most
people think. But they are hiding in plain sight, there for the world to
see, if only we read beyond the slogans and the innocuous-sounding media
accounts of the movement.

The group’s radical Marxist agenda would supplant the basic building
block of society—the family—with the state and destroy the economic
system that has lifted more people from poverty than any other. Black
lives, and all lives, would be harmed.

Theirs is a blueprint for misery, not justice. It must be rejected.

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