Hot take: I'm black and consider myself liberal, and...

I support BLM. BUT. I don't like how the "leaders" of the incorporated organisation are taking advantage of the public's goodwill to end institutional racism and using it to promote other things which are not relevant to the cause. Like supporting oppressive communist governments (I just found out what "BLM" said about Cuba). It's honestly frustrating because some older people who only get their news from cable networks, and bad faith Republicans will think that's what BLM is about, when it's really a movement to end institutional racism in America.

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bijouxbroussard · F

I understand. The fact that there are several so-called “leaders” with varied and sometimes conflicting agendas apart from that initial objective—stopping the profiling and abuse of blacks by law enforcement—often makes things problematic.

somedude15 · 22-25, M

@bijouxbroussard you can already see one of those people I talked about in my post in the comments. They know that the average person with a black lives matter sign in their yard or on their car really just wants to eliminate racism. They know. But the leaders have 'hijacked' the cause, giving people like that opportunities to even be racist and hide under the "BLM is actually a commie organisation".