@Lookout
Sorry for no timely response to your response - thanks for the
links.

Have to say that I don't think that the issue with BLM is that it has been co-opted so much as that it is, at its core, anyway, astroturf/controlled opposition rather than some sort of organic, grassroots movement that sprung up from the black community and reflects its concerns - probably intended to forestall a real grassroots movement from emerging.

It is hardly the only example of the genre. The supposedly spontaneous youth movement for gun control that emerged after the Parkland school shooting is another and the Greta Thunberg thing yet another.

All of the above have benefitted from big bucks from the likes of George Soros and Tom Steyer. In all cases they demonize anyone disagreeing with them and promote division over inclusiveness. And people like Larry Pinkney who push inclusiveness are demonized by the left as duped race traitors.

I'm convinced what is going on is an attempt at a "color revolution"/Reichstag fire coup - and it is not being conducted to usher in an anarchist paradise or to help downtrodden people in the hood. No doubt many BLM or antifa supporters are sincere in their convictions, but they are effectively being used as pawns along the lines of Brown Shirts or Red Guards.

Should they "win" their usefulness would be at an end and they would be disposed of accordingly - as happened to their spiritual predecessors.

John Rutherford's take on the situation:

Watch and see: this debate over police brutality and accountability is about to get politicized into an election-year referendum on who should occupy the White House.

Don’t fall for it.

The Deep State, the powers-that-be, want us to turn this into a race war, but this is about so much more than systemic racism. This is the oldest con game in the books, the magician’s sleight of hand that keeps you focused on the shell game in front of you while your wallet is being picked clean by ruffians in your midst.

It’s the Reichstag Fire all over again.

It was February 1933, a month before national elections in Germany, and the Nazis weren’t expected to win. So they engineered a way to win: they began by infiltrating the police and granting police powers to their allies; then Hitler brought in stormtroopers to act as auxiliary police; by the time an arsonist (who claimed to be working for the Communists in the hopes of starting an armed revolt) set fire to the Reichstag, the German parliamentary building, the people were eager for a return to law and order.

That was all it took: Hitler used the attempted “coup” as an excuse to declare martial law and seize absolute power in Germany, establishing himself as a dictator with the support of the German people.

Fast forward to the present day, and what do we have? The nation in turmoil after months of pandemic fear-mongering and regional lockdowns, a national election looming, a president with falling poll numbers, and a police state that wants to stay in power at all costs.

Note the similarities?

It’s entirely possible that Americans have finally reached a tipping point over police brutality after decades of abuse. After all, until recently, the legislatures and the courts have marched in lockstep with the police state, repeatedly rebuffing efforts to hold police accountable for official misconduct.

Then again, it’s also equally possible that the architects of the police state have every intention of manipulating this outrage for their own purposes.

It works the same in every age.

As author Jim Keith explains, “Create violence through economic pressures, the media, mind control, agent provocateurs: thesis. Counter it with totalitarian measures, more mind control, police crackdowns, surveillance, drugging of the population: antithesis. What ensues is Orwell’s vision of 1984, a society of total control: synthesis.”

Here’s what is going to happen: the police state is going to stand down and allow these protests, riots and looting to devolve into a situation where enough of the voting populace is so desperate for a return to law and order that they will gladly relinquish some of their freedoms to achieve it. And that’s how the police state will win, no matter which candidate gets elected to the White House.

You know who will lose? Every last one of us.

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In many ways by many forces...

Caity had a nice piece on the dims use of it...

Democratic Party leaders are currently under fire for staging a ridiculous performative display of sympathy for George Floyd by kneeling for eight minutes while wearing Kente cloth, a traditional African textile. The streets of America are filled with protesters demanding a total overhaul of the nation’s entire approach to policing.

The Democratic Party’s response is to put on a children’s play using black culture as a prop, and advance a toothless reform bill whose approach we’ve already established is worthless which will actually increase funding to police departments.

Meanwhile it’s blue states with Democratic governors and cities with Democratic mayors where the bulk of the police brutality, people are objecting to, is occurring. The Democrats are going out of their way to spin police brutality as the result of Trump’s presidency, but facts in evidence say America’s violent and increasingly militarized police force would be a problem if every seat in every office in America were blue.

https://consortiumnews.com/2020/06/09/uprising-the-democratic-party-exis...

According to this RW source...
Turns out that financial contributions to the Black Lives Matter movement, including millions from large corporations are being funneled to the DNC and Biden campaign.
So Democrats are as usual exploiting the black community for financial and electoral gain.
https://thefederalistpapers.org/us/financial-contributions-black-lives-m...

Curious how corporation and CEO's are donating. Makes me suspicious. More from the RW.
Black Lives Matter is hardly a “grassroots” movement, with big money donors stoking the fires and promoting racial divisiveness. Lifezette reported that the Ford Foundation will be giving millions of dollars to prop up the Black Lives Matter movement according to Fortune Magazine.
https://thefederalistpapers.org/us/here-are-all-the-companies-giving-big...

This academic piece is kinda interesting too...
http://blog.richmond.edu/criticalracetheory/files/2019/01/Benevolent_Rac...

thanks for the video. I'll look forward to watching it.