{"id":428360,"date":"2022-04-08T04:53:38","date_gmt":"2022-04-08T01:53:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/black-lives-matter-just-another-racket\/"},"modified":"2022-04-08T04:53:38","modified_gmt":"2022-04-08T01:53:38","slug":"black-lives-matter-just-another-racket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/black-lives-matter-just-another-racket\/","title":{"rendered":"#Black Lives Matter just another racket"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a28a349cc584\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a28a349cc584\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/black-lives-matter-just-another-racket\/#%E2%80%9CBlack_Lives_Matter_just_another_racket%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Black Lives Matter just another racket&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/black-lives-matter-just-another-racket\/#Distorting_reality\" >Distorting reality\u00a0<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/black-lives-matter-just-another-racket\/#The_high_priestess\" >The high priestess\u00a0<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CBlack_Lives_Matter_just_another_racket%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Black Lives Matter just another racket&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<div class=\"inline-module inline-module--columnist inline-module--author\">\n<div class=\"inline-module--author__img\">\n            <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"76\" height=\"69\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/09\/Douglas-Murray.png?w=76&amp;h=69&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-nyp_columnist size-nyp_columnist\" alt=\"Douglas Murray\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/09\/Douglas-Murray.png 152w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/09\/Douglas-Murray.png?w=114 114w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/09\/Douglas-Murray.png?w=76 76w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/09\/Douglas-Murray.png?w=38 38w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 76px) 100vw, 76px\"\/>      <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>It often takes time to recognize a racket. Think of Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker. For years, they preyed on decent, praying Americans, defrauding them while presenting themselves as people of faith. Or remember Peter Popoff? He was constantly exposed for selling fraudulent products that were meant to \u201ccure\u201d people. They did no such thing. But he preyed on people\u2019s goodness and hopes all the same.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>These over-surgeried televangelists claim they can only build their spanking new church if you hand over your hard-earned dollars. Or buy their magical healing water. All the time, they stock up their personal empires or splash it out on overpriced hookers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Now we have new religions, and a whole new religious caste. Like the worst hucksters of old, they prey on our new vulnerabilities. In our time, few groups are as guilty of this as the people who run the Black Lives Matter movement.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Like the most fraudulent pastors, the heads of BLM take advantage of good people. They present an undeniably good cause. They prey on people\u2019s hopes and fears. After all, who in America does not believe that black lives matter? Who wouldn\u2019t have sympathy with, or support, a group that claims to want to help people fight injustice? But BLM operates like all rackets do.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Distorting_reality\"><\/span>Distorting reality\u00a0<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Firstly, they lie about reality. In the case of BLM, they pretend that black people in the United States in 2022 can be killed at any time by the police. They pretend that racism is a pandemic in this country and that everything and anything must be done to tackle it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/AP20155113638775.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Dallas police officer\" class=\"wp-image-21825019\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/AP20155113638775.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/AP20155113638775.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/AP20155113638775.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/AP20155113638775.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>A Dallas police officer stops and gets out of his car to talk and take photos with a group of demonstrators gathered at Lake Cliff Park.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP\/Smiley N. Pool<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The effects of this work is there for all to see. The American public has been misled about the real state of race in this country. A poll in 2020 asked Americans how many unarmed black men they think are killed by the police in America the previous year. More than a fifth of people who described themselves as \u201cvery liberal\u201d said they thought it was over 10,000 unarmed black people in America killed by police every year. Among self-described \u201cliberals,\u201d around 40% said they thought that the figure was somewhere between 1,000 and 10,000. The actual figure was around 10. Meaning that liberals in America were off by several orders of magnitude. They had a completely wrongheaded idea of what America is actually like.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But no wonder. For they had spent years hearing BLM pretend that black people are killed with impunity in this country. And that rather than us knowing the names of almost every single one of the most controversial police interactions we are somehow all covering them up. \u201cSay their names,\u201d they chant. But everyone in America knows the name of George Floyd. As we do the name of the policeman sent to life in prison for killing him.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Yet like the huckster pastors, BLM pretends otherwise. They present a false reality and then present a false solution. How convenient for them that the solution just h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ens to enrich themselves.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/AP-Poll-Policing.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"BLM Protest\" class=\"wp-image-21824988\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/AP-Poll-Policing.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/AP-Poll-Policing.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/AP-Poll-Policing.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/AP-Poll-Policing.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Murray believes BLM pretends that racism is a pandemic in this country.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP\/Alex Brandon<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>So, just as Peter Popoff pretended that he could wash away all your ills with his magical spiritual water, so BLM pretended that if you sent in the checks, then they could address the illness of America. They presented America as irredeemably racist and then said only they could redeem this country. How the money rolled in.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And it wasn\u2019t just credulous individuals, but huge corporations, companies and the super-rich who paid up. Like guilds paying off the church of old, large financial institutions made vast payments to BLM. In part like some kind of protection racket. \u201cOur company can\u2019t be racist because we support BLM,\u201d they said. \u201cSo make sure that next time there are riots the mob moves right on by us and burns the place next door. For we are the chosen ones.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_high_priestess\"><\/span>The high priestess\u00a0<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Meantime, good people were misled into parting with their money to pay for a cause that has no accountability and seems to have used its funds solely to enrich its leaders.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>What a racket it turns out to have been. It is now a year since the New York Post revealed the real-estate empire of BLM co-founder Patrisse Khan-Cullors. The 38-year-old once famously claimed to be a \u201ctrained Marxist.\u201d As though that is a real discipline. But it turned out that the only thing she\u2019d really learned about Marxism was some Marxists are more equal than others.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p>Now the rest of the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a> is catching up with the story. This week, New York magazine detailed BLM\u2019s purchase of a swanky new $5.8 million mansion in Southern California.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>How did Cullors, the high priestess of BLM, respond? Why with accusations that the story was \u201cracist and sexist,\u201d of course. She tried to shut it down, just as she had earlier worked with the social-media companies to try to subdue the reports in The Post\u2019s revelations about her grand lifestyle.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If Cullors was a corrupt televangelist, she would be claiming that her critics were sinning against God. In today\u2019s racial religion, Cullors claims that her critics are sinning against BLM. It is a clever way of operating. But it is also very familiar.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Both Cullors and the organization she runs are now at a critical juncture. The American people can now see through them. We can see that they may have started something in a good cause. But they turned the cause into a business. And then swiftly into a racket. A racket from which they seem to be the ones to have benefited. America has a long list of snake-oil salesmen who claimed to be people of faith. Let the \u201ctrained Marxist\u201d heads of BLM join that ugly and shameful list.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe War on the West\u201d by Douglas Murray will be published on April\u200926.\u00a0<\/em>\n                        <\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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