RESOLVED: BLM is a net harm to America

“eradicate white supremacy and build local power to intervene in violence inflicted on Black communities by the state and vigilantes (police brutality).”

“The percentage of minorities in the Federal Workforce increased by 0.4 percent to 35.3 percent in FY 2014 from 34.9 percent in FY 2013, which is notably greater than the percentage of the Civilian Labor Force that is comprised by minorities (32.5 percent).”

"Overall, killings of blacks by whites and whites by blacks accounted for about 12 percent of the roughly 6,000 homicides last year in which police had information about the race of both victim and killer"

“About 15.8 percent of white victims were killed by blacks last year, and 8.6 percent of black victims were killed by whites.”

“We also examined the race of involved officers in threat perception failure OISs to gain a greater understanding of how cross-race encounters may influence threat perception. We found that the threat perception failure rate for White officers and Black suspects was 6.8 percent. Black officers had a threat perception failure rate of 11.4 percent when the suspect was Black. The threat perception failure rate for Hispanic officers was 16.7 percent when involved in an OIS with a Black suspect.”

“We find no evidence of anti-Black or anti-Hispanic disparities across shootings, and White officers are not more likely to shoot minority civilians than non-White officers.”

“Here’s what it comes down to – the more frequently officers encounter violent suspects – no matter what that racial group is – the greater the chances that members of that racial group will be shot by a police officer.”

“From 1980 to 2008, the homicide offending rate for blacks (34.4 per 100,000) was almost 8 times higher than the rate for whites (4.5 per 100,000).”

“Over the past decade, according to FBI data, 40% of cop killers have been black. Officers are killed by blacks at a rate 2.5 times higher than the rate at which blacks are killed by police.”

“Our research shows that of American adults who followed these three simple rules, only about 2 percent are in poverty and nearly 75 percent have joined the middle class (defined as earning around $55,000 or more per year).”

“We disrupt the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure requirement by supporting each other as extended families and “villages” that collectively care for one another, especially our children, to the degree that mothers, parents, and children are comfortable.”

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Marxism is a social, political, and economic theory originated by Karl Marx, which focuses on the struggle between capitalists and the working class. 
  
• Marx wrote that the power relationships between capitalists and workers were inherently exploitative and would inevitably create class conflict. 
  
• He believed that this conflict would ultimately lead to a revolution in which the working class would overthrow the capitalist class and seize control of the economy.
  

“I do not see anywhere in Pro's entire case anything even approaching a weighing of net harm vs net benefit.” 

“Pro seems to be trying to present the case to us that BLM aims to be detrimental to America, not just that it's a net harm by mistake.”

“BLM only happened to hone in on 'blacks' because those ethnicities (Carribean, African etc) that fall under the umbrella of 'black' happen to be the poorest in not just the US but many nations that engaged in the enslavement and oppression of black individuals many generations ago. It is due to the fact that they are the poorest and that over time a huge multiple generation-long bias has remained against them, that BLM happens to focus on the 'black' race. Their actual focus is on the poor and those that are crushed under not just Capitalism but institutional bias against a certain group climbing up the ladder of said Capitalist hierarchy.” 

“I am also curious what these 'Christian values' that Pro suggests are being destroyed by BLM are. I would actually agree insofar as that the racist slave traders all served regimes that claimed to be Christian. There are some old testament verses supporting that kind of hierarchy (though in OT it suggests that Semites are superior not simply Caucasians) but is that really what Pro is advocating as positive? BLM has many black Christian members. What Christian values are they standing against? Crony Capitalism and racist elitism? Is that what Pro is saying is Christianity and is being stopped? I'd say good on BLM for stopping that?”

“As for the reparations, the exact proportion of reparations could even be reduced to literally zero (yes, zero) if the system in place was completely fair and just towards the poor. Rather than go ahead and assert it isn't, I will wait to see what Pro says back to any of this.” 

“I would say that the third part is the means and is not necessarily what BLM is or has tried to do at all. The fact that some rioters are violent and loot black businessmen even, with the looters including many rich caucasians such as star Jake Paul”

“BLM have no beef with poor people of other races”
 

“BLM have beef with rich elitism entitling people to disproportionate privilege even in law enforcement towards themselves vs what the poor get. The Marxist values aren't a negative at all.”

Seventy-two percent of black babies were born to unmarried mothers, according to government statistics.

Children in father-absent homes are almost four times more likely to be poor. 

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services states, “Fatherless children are at a dramatically greater risk of drug and alcohol abuse.”

Children of single-parent homes are more than twice as likely to commit suicide.

71% of high school dropouts are fatherless.

The statistical data showed that a 1% increase in the proportion of single-parent families in a neighborhood is associated with a 3% increase in an adolescent’s level of violence.

Being raised by a single mother raises the risk of teen pregnancy, marrying with less than a high school degree, and forming a marriage where both partners have less than a high school degree.

Black Lives Matter has always been more of a human rights movement rather than a civil rights movement. BLM's focus has been less about changing specific laws and more about fighting for a fundamental reordering of society wherein Black lives are free from systematic dehumanization. Still, the movement’s measurable impact on the political and legal landscape is undeniable.

What gets referred to as “the Black Lives Matter movement” is, in actuality, the collective labor of a wide range of Black liberation organizations, each which their own distinct histories. These organizations include groups like the Black Youth Project 100, the Dream Defenders, Assata’s Daughters, the St. Louis Action council, Millennial Activists United, and the Organization for Black Struggle, to name just a few.

Collectively, since 2013, these organizers have effected significant change locally and nationally, including the ousting of high-profile corrupt prosecutors. In Chicago, the labor of groups such as BYP100 and Assata’s Daughters, among others, led Anita Alvarez — who had inexplicably failed to charge police officers who shot at least 68 people to death — to lose her re-election bid for Cook County prosecutor. And in Florida, groups like The Dream Defenders and others helped end Angela Corey’s reign as a state attorney. Corey remains infamous for failing to convict Trayvon Martin’s killer George Zimmerman while prosecuting Marissa Alexander, a Black woman who didn’t hurt anyone when firing a warning shot at her abusive ex-husband.

The BLM movement’s work certainly doesn’t stop there. Students on the ground in Missouri, as part of the #ConcernedStudent1950 movement, helped lead to the resignation of the University of Missouri president over his failure to deal with racism on campus. BLM compelled Democrats to restructure their national platform to include issues such as criminal justice reform, and the movement contributed to the election of Black leftist organizers to public office, such as activist Chokwe Lumumba to mayor of Jackson, Mississippi.

The BLM movement’s unrelenting work on the issue of police corruption, helped incite the release of four unprecedented U.S. Department of Justice reports that confirm the widespread presence of police corruption in Baltimore, Chicago, Ferguson, and Cleveland. Moreover, the Movement for Black Lives’ publication of a watershed multi-agenda policy platform — authored by over 50 black-centered organizations — laid bare the expansive policy goals of the movement. The fact that these accomplishments have happened so quickly is an extraordinary achievement in and of itself.

Moreover, the broader cultural impact of BLM as a movement has been immeasurably expansive. BLM will forever be remembered as the movement responsible for popularizing what has now become an indispensable tool in 21st-century organizing efforts: the phenomenon that scholars refer to as “mediated mobilization.” By using the tools of social media, BLM was the first U.S. social movement in history to successfully use the internet as a mass mobilization device. The recent successes of movements, such as #MeToo, #NeverAgain, and #TimesUp, would be inconceivable had it not been for the groundwork that #BlackLivesMatter laid.

Employers should identify and implement concrete steps to address and fix inequities, and endeavor to create diverse and inclusive workplaces by establishing programs and continually assessing and reworking them to reach their goals. Diversity initiatives come in all shapes and sizes.

For example, over the last decade, many businesses adopted a version of the “Rooney Rule,” a practice started in the NFL to increase the opportunities for minorities to hold coaching and management positions by requiring that teams interview at least one non-white candidate for open positions. Businesses adopting these initiatives often require at least one female and one non-white candidate to be considered among the candidates for every open leadership position.

• When we realise they helped blacks move towards better legal representation, Pro will accuse this of 'hurting the prosecutors of America to put criminals behind bars' despite the bias being the opposite.
  
• When we realise they helped workers' rights, inspired movements like MeToo and helped inspire Latinos to fight ICE, we are told it doesn't matter.
  
• When I agree they have Marxist values, Pro says no...

“Pro starts talking about fatherless homes... Then blames BLM for encouraging the community to band together to take care of parentless youth. This is a most preposterous leap in logic. BLM are not encouraging homes to be fatherless and suggesting the community should forcibly 'take care of' each other.”

“When I agree they have Marxist values, Pro says no…”