At the NBC-owned black website TheGrio.com, Lincoln A. Blades suggested he has a “police officer friend,” as in “some of my best friends are cops,” but he was “sick to his stomach” over a simple “Blue Lives Matter” billboard as “racist b—s—“ “propagating white supremacy.”
The headline was “Blue Lives Matter billboards don’t honor fallen officers, they discredit black humanity.”
It is beyond incredible that folks can be so damn against the idea of unarmed African-Americans not being extrajudicially murdered. Somehow, these same people feel that a movement aimed at highlighting police killings of black citizens and empowering our country to address it needs to be discredited.
Specifically using the words “Blue Lives Matter” as a counterpoint to “Black Lives Matter,” the ridiculous and anti-intellectual creators of this campaign have firmly decided that propagating their white supremacy will be best masked under the guise of mourning men and women who died in the line of duty.
As someone who loves his police officer friend and who also believes that black people shouldn’t be killed in the streets for frivolous reasons, I’m beyond pissed at idiots who aim to conflate these two concepts as dueling ideologies.
If you think this is anything other than a pointed anti-black campaign, you’re simply not paying enough attention to what’s going on.
“Black Lives Matter” is a movement, and any attempt to replace the “Black” in the slogan is apparently one of “a multitude of anti-Black movements that are aimed at discrediting African-Americans’ fight for their lives.” Blades argued:
#AllLivesMatter, a hashtag that never existed before black people actively declared agency over the preciousness of their bodies, popped up to redirect the conversation away from the brutalization of black bodies at the hands of police officers, security guards and vigilantes.
And now, #BlueLivesMatter has taken the baton of distraction and decided to run with it head on to fight against an imaginary war on cops.
Blades claimed cops are much, much safer than black people:
We’re on pace to have 35 police officers murdered this year — and well over a 1,000 [sic] people killed by police.
That’s not a war — that’s a slaughter.
Before one would ask for footnotes, we can say that the number of law enforcement officers in America is about 40 times less the number of blacks. It’s almost amusing that Blades would be infuriated by an “imaginary war on cops,” but can’t imagine that cops would be equally dismissive of an “imaginary war on blacks.”
