BLACK LIVES MATTER UNDER FIRE AS A 'HATE GROUP'
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Fox News host Elizabeth Hasselbeck drew the outrage of progressives on the morning show “Fox and Friends” this week when she questioned why Black Lives Matter has not been labeled as a “hate group.”
She expressed disgust at the chants of “pigs in a blanket, fry them like bacon” by Black Lives Matter activists at the Minnesota State Fair.
“How much more has to go in this direction before someone actually labels it as such?” she asked.
Now, Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson, a civil-rights leader, WND columnist and author of the new book “The Antidote” is willing to do just that.
“Without a doubt, Black Lives Matter is a hate group,” Peterson told WND. “If a white group was encouraging violence and targeting police, they would be rightfully labeled a ‘hate group’ by the mainstream media and by far-left groups like the Southern Poverty Law Center and People For the American Way.”
Black Lives Matter is coming under increasing pressure for its harsh attitude toward law enforcement at a time when violent acts against police seem to be increasing.
Black Lives Matter activist Trahern Crews tried to play off the “fry them like bacon” chants as a “playful” joke in an interview with MSNBC’s Chris Hayes.
But the protest came only a few hours after Deputy Darren Goforth was shot “execution style” at a suburban Houston gas station.
Goforth’s murder was also preceded by inflammatory rhetoric, as armed members of the New Black Panther Party marched on a Texas jail to issue a call to “off the pigs” only days before.
Since Goforth’s murder, graffiti showing a handgun pointing at a police officer’s head is being displayed near Houston, ominously close to where he was killed.
And another police officer, Lt. Joe Gliniewicz of Fox Lake, Illinois, was found shot to death Tuesday morning, the latest law enforcement officer to become a murder victim this year.
A recent poll finds a majority of voters believe there is a “war” on police officers and that comments by politicians critical of law enforcement are making it more difficult for cops to do their job.
Peterson blames much of the violence on Black Lives Matter itself. And he has harsh words for Democratic politicians who have been looking to appeal to the group.
“Black Lives Matter is not a mainstream group, and no legitimate political party should be associated with them,” he said. “If a party is known to be affiliated with Black Lives Matter, that group should be shunned for associating with a group that is akin to the KKK and the skinheads.”
The Democratic National Committee recently endorsed the Black Lives Matter movement, but BLM refused to endorse the Democrats in return, insisting that “true change requires real struggle … led by the people, not a political party.”
Individual Democrat candidates have also been tripped up in trying to appeal to the group.
Democratic presidential candidate Martin O’Malley backed away from using the phrase “all lives matter” after criticism. Black Lives Matter considers the phrase “all lives matter” to be “violent.”
Candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders have also had run-ins with Black Lives Matter activists disrupting their events. Sanders was even forced off the stage at one of his own rallies. In response, Sanders unveiled a new “racial justice platform” to try to appeal to the movement.
Instead of moving closer to them, Peterson says Democratic candidates should have “repudiated” Black Lives Matter and taken a hard line with activists who interrupt campaign events.
“They should have had Black Lives Matter members escorted out like Donald Trump had Jorge Ramos removed for trying to disrupt his campaign event. Hillary, Sanders, and others are trying to appease Black Lives Matter and it will only encourage these people. Weakness brings out the worst in them.”
Jack Cashill, a WND columnist and the author of “Scarlet Letters: The Ever-Increasing Intolerance of the Cult of Liberalism,” also believes Sanders and other Democrats should have taken a lesson from Trump.
“Donald Trump has put all candidates on notice, Democrats included, that Americans respect candidates who do not cringe in the face of minority pressure,” Cashill told WND. “The Houston cop-shooting further reduces the power of the Black Lives Matter crowd to intimidate. Bernie Sanders may be the last candidate to get the memo, but the BLM’s moment in the sun has passed.”
Cashill argues the Black Lives Matter group showed its true colors when it took offensive to the phrase “All Lives Matter.”
“By its very title, and certainly by its claim to exclusivity as to whose lives matter, Black Lives Matters would qualify as a racist outfit by just about any standard,” Cashill said. “As to ‘hate,’ though, that is incidental to its larger goal of subverting the capitalist order.”
Larry Elder, a WND columnist, talk radio host and author of “Dear Father, Dear Son,” also sees the politics of resentment in the tactics of Black Lives Matter and thinks it is inevitable that Democrats will form an alliance with the group.
“Democrats require blacks to believe they are victims of oppression – and that they are oppression fighters,” explains Elder. “It’s standard operating procedure.
“But this has real consequences. The police have become more passive, as a result crime is going up in places like New York, Philadelphia and Camden, New Jersey. And, year-to-year, shootings against the police have gone up. The gunman who ambushed NYPD officers Liu and Ramos in New York a few months ago posted on Facebook a statement about his anger over Ferguson.”
Elder is also not surprised at how the Democrats have acquiesced to the Black Lives Matter movement.
“They’re Democrats,” he laughs. “They do what Democrats do – feed the narrative, placate the ‘downtrodden’ and ‘feel their pain.’”
Colin Flaherty has been tracking racial violence in America for several years. He chronicled his findings in “White Girl Bleed A Lot: The Return of Racial Violence to America and How the Media Ignore It.”
He said Black Lives Matters “promotes racial hostility, racial resentment, and racial violence,” and slams the Democrats for “actively supporting this racial division.”
“I am convinced many people are not aware of how close they are and how much racial hostility there is,” said Flaherty. “But these activists represent a major chunk of the Democrat coalition. So the Democrats did the only thing they thought they could do. They coddled them and pretended they are not really all about racial hostility.”
Flaherty believes Black Lives Matter’s rhetoric goes far beyond “inappropriate” and amounts to incitement of violence. But he blames the Republicans for not forcefully condemning the movement.
“I have no idea where the GOP is on all of this. I have no idea. But I do know this – the Democrat record in the big urban area where black people live is just about as dismal as it gets. I have no idea why no one is calling them on it, other than cowardice.”
Peterson thinks there will be more violence enabled by Black Lives Matter as long as the Republicans are unwilling to confront this “evil group that is undermining law and order.” And he warns the worst may be yet to come until the group is stopped.
“Black Lives Matter have used hateful, mean-spirited, inflammatory and dangerous rhetoric against police. I haven’t seen such hate since the New Black Panther Party started going after whites several years ago.
“They’re putting the lives of police officers at risk by encouraging other angry people to hate the police and target them. This is an evil group.”.
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Unpublished 'Black Lives Matter' Book Stirs Controversy
By Jackie Zubrzycki Aug. 26, 2015
A book for young people that aims to put the "Black Lives Matter" movement in historical context is making waves long before its official release.
ABDO Publishing is releasing the book in 2016 as part of a "Special Reports" series that also includes books about ISIS, transgender issues, and the Ebola outbreak. Here's how the publishing company describes the series:
Special Reports explores the challenging events and contentious issues that fill the headlines, with compelling text and well-chosen images. Providing balanced coverage, as well as background information and context, the books in this series help readers develop an essential understanding of current events and encourage them to form their own opinions.
Though "Black Lives Matter" is hardly the only contentious topic on that list, the book was singled out in an episode of "Fox and Friends," the TV show, last weekend.
Radio personality and author Larry Elder denounced the book in a segment called "New Black Lives Matter Textbook Is Aimed at 6th Grade Students." Elder said the book teaches that black people are victims and that white people should feel guilty, and that it would indoctrinate children in this belief. An icon in the bottom corner of the screen during the segment reads "Trouble With Schools."
A post on The Feminist Wire earlier this month had said that teachers and parents would find the book to be an "invaluable resource."
Macalester College Professor Duchess Harris said she and co-author Sue Bradford Edwards, a Missouri-based journalist, hoped to provide information for young people looking to understand current events and African-American history.
Co-author Harris said that Elder criticized the book without having read it. She sent Education Week a draft copy. "If you read it and still don't like it, that's fair."
Harris, an American studies professor, said the content is not meant as "indoctrination or propaganda." "It's, these are current events and this is what that means," she said.
ABDO is an educational publisher that sells books to schools and school libraries, and the book is advertised as being aligned to the Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards . But ABDO Publishing editor-in-chief Paul Abdo told online news site Fusion that the book is not intended to be a textbook.
The book, which consists of about 100 pages long of larger-print text, starts with a description of the death of Michael Brown, the legal aftermath, and the reaction in Missouri and across the country.
It then gives a brief history, "Black Lives in America," that includes the Three-fifths compromise (which declared that slaves counted as Three-fifths of a person for the purposes of taxation and representation), the Civil War, the development of Jim Crow laws, the role of African-American units in World War II, the Civil Rights movement, and residential segregation.
It walks readers through other recent events, such as the 2009 shooting death of Oscar Grant at the hands of a police officer in Oakland, Calif., including their legal and social aftermaths.
The book does explicitly say that African-American citizens have often received harsher treatment by law enforcement than white citizens. It cites statistics that bolster that claim, including, for instance, that in Ferguson African Americans are far more likely to be pulled over for minor traffic violations than white citizens, and that 42 percent of police SWAT team missions have involved African Americans, who make up 13 percent of the population.
Harris said that many of her students have never studied African-American history before college and are wary about talking about race or charged current events in class. She said she hoped the book would fill a gap.
"My colleagues in the math department, for instance, don't get students who have never encountered algebra or calculus," Harris said. "But what I get are students whose high school teachers have not dealt with contemporary race relations."
Harris discussed the book on a local PBS station:
Harris and Edwards are at work on another book aimed at young people, focused on African-American female mathematicians who worked at NASA during segregation.
The book is not the first resource aimed at helping teachers address Michael Brown's death or think about how to teach controversial current events .
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