Black Appraisals of Black Lives Matter – Part III

by Soeren Kern • October 7, 2020 at 5:00 am

"I have no objection to the statement 'black lives matter.' But the movement that uses that name has a sinister hostility to serious, fact-driven discussion of the problem it purports to care about. Even more sinister is the haste with which academic, media and business leaders abase themselves before it. There will be no resolution of America's many social problems if free thought and free speech are no longer upheld in our public sphere." — Ayaan Hirsi Ali.
"In my old neighborhood in West Philadelphia, they burned down a Walmart.... How do you justify the destruction in the black community in the name of promoting social justice for blacks?" — Robert L. Woodson.
"All of these corporations... that give a dollar or millions of dollars to the BLM agenda, they are destroying black lives." — Niger Innis.
"Here is the real truth: America has accepted the idea that every person who is a citizen of the United States ought to be considered equal before the law. BLM is asking for something different: that black people should receive better treatment than other citizens.... Hundreds of thousands, millions, tens of millions, maybe even a hundred million dollars have been collected without any reporting requirements, without any justification for what these resources are going to go toward." — Horace Cooper.
"Little Yummy was an eleven-year-old murderer. He got murdered at eleven by a 14-year-old who is doing life in prison now.... Where was his father? ... It starts in the home. My three closest friends did 15-25 years in prison... I was the only one who had a father in my life. I had a father who was a gentle man and a good example — they didn't." — Denzel Washington.
"There is no way you can do any homework on Black Lives Matter and not see that it is a Marxist political organization. It is not about black death. It is not about black men. It is a political move. It is a communist political move." — Jason Whitlock, Fox News, July 7, 2020.
"Police don't wake up and think, 'I'm going to kill a n*gger today or kill a white man.' They're just trying to make it back home to their family in one piece." — Muhammad Ali Jr.

"I have no objection to the statement 'black lives matter.' But the movement that uses that name has a sinister hostility to serious, fact-driven discussion of the problem it purports to care about." — Ayaan Hirsi Ali. (Photo by Elisabetta Villa/Getty Images)

This multi-part series (Part I here, Part II here) focuses on the perspectives of blacks — conservative, liberal or libertarian — who appraise BLM and its agenda. The following selection of commentary by blacks from all walks of life — actors, athletes, businesspeople, civil rights activists, clergy, commentators, physicians and politicians — demonstrates that black public opinion is not monolithic and that BLM does not speak for all African Americans.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali, author and research fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution, wrote:

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"Assimilation" China Style

by Lawrence A. Franklin • October 7, 2020 at 4:00 am

The principal feature of the "assimilation" program in ethnic areas is the eradication of native languages as a medium of instruction. All courses in minority regions are now taught in Mandarin....
The accounts of the CCP's ethnic purification campaigns should serve as warning to Chinese Christians that recent sporadic examples of state security officials removing crosses from church steeples might be prologue to a much more intense campaign to suppress Christianity in China.
The CCP under Xi's leadership will not tolerate any force or institution that might serve as a rally point for Chinese citizens who might be opposed to the Communist regime, or even be an alternate source of admiration to it.

China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region exploded into unrest last month when parents discovered that their children would no longer be taught in their native tongue, under a new "assimilation" program imposed by the Communist Party in ethnic areas. Pictured: Policemen stand guard at the entrance to the Tongliao Mongolian Middle School in Inner Mongolia on September 10, 2020. (Photo by Noel Celis/AFP via Getty Images)

Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Chairman Xi Jinping doubled down on his professed policy of ethnic assimilation on September 26 at a two-day party conference on Xinjiang.

In reality, the CCP policy in Xinjiang of "assimilation" resembles more the forced unity of cultural genocide. There is ample evidence that these same repressive policies are being applied in several other Chinese territories where ethnic minorities are prominent. Similar "assimilation" programs presently are being implemented in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, the Tibet Autonomous Region, and the Korean Autonomous Prefecture in China's northeastern province of Jilin.

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