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Black Lives Matter?

Apr 8, 2016 4:02AM PDT

Finally, more than just white folks are pointing out the obvious hypocrisy of saying "black lives matter" all while most black lives lost are due to other blacks killing them, and that at a rate 5-6 times higher than whites kill each other. The lowest rate of murder is among Asians.

http://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2016/04/07/ray-lewis-im-trying-to-figure-out-why-no-one-is-paying-attention-to-black-men-killing-black-men/

"Former Raven Ray Lewis is rocking the boat with a controversial new video. In it, he takes on the Black Lives Matter movement.
His impassioned plea urging African-Americans to stop killing each other has sparked both praise and protest.
In the viral video, Lewis addresses the spike in violence nationwide and the Black Lives Matter movement.
“We’ve got babies in Baltimore being shot in the middle of the streets,” he said in the video.
In the nine-minute rant posted Saturday, Lewis is critical of the Black Lives Matter movement.
“I’m trying to figure out in my mind why no one is paying attention to black men killing black men,” said Lewis, noting the increase in shootings and homicides in cities across the country, especially Chicago.
“We keep screaming ‘black lives matter.’ If they really matter, then let’s do ourselves a favor, let’s stop killing black folks,” he said."



WARNING; Fairly intense.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bZs5IN-c0I

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A "white" viewpoint
Apr 8, 2016 4:18AM PDT


This guy shows the "racism" of Black Lives Matter and their paranoid approach to race.
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Even Bill Clinton lectured the BLM protestors
Apr 8, 2016 5:45AM PDT
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good cop, bad cop
Apr 8, 2016 6:29AM PDT

I was glad to see him say what he did.

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clintons
Apr 9, 2016 4:24AM PDT

I cant seem to understand their strategy, clintons.. what are they trying to do?
there stand on social issues is sometimes confusing..

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That's because when Obama was running
Apr 9, 2016 5:01AM PDT

against her and began using far left agendas, many more on the left took up that baton and went to the extreme. It's gotten worse over the last eight years and in order for HilLIARy to garner those votes, she's been forced into going in Sanders' territory in order to compete. Bill wants to hold on to HIS legacy as president so he makes statements that defend that legacy (and it doesn't matter that he's correct in many of those old policies) but HER campaign goes ballistic every time he does that. That's why it appears that Bill is 'moderate' (because in many ways he really IS or he wouldn't have worked so well with Newt Gingrich and the Republican Congress in his last four years as president) but his wife is so far left that she's fallen in with that agenda. It's really hard for him to be supportive of HER campaign rhetoric because it doesn't match up with HIS and what HIS legacy represented to Democrats because the Dems of 1990's is NOT the same Dem party TODAY. I think that's why so many liberal media commentators are making statements like "Bill looks so tired and isn't as enthusiastic as he used to be" and "He must be ailing to be so far off his usual game".....they refuse to make the connection so they offer up excuses instead and make public statements that perhaps he should leave the campaign completely, because they are afraid that he's hurting HC.

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Look at my Face
Apr 23, 2016 8:40AM PDT