This is an awesome piece, and it is written, by a black man. Which, by the way, is an awesome thing. 😀

But this, even with the careful hedges, is a hasty, and even lazy, reading of the issue. I imagine there are some people out there who don’t like BLM because it’s black people making noise. But what disturbs a great many—and I highly suspect many more—people about the philosophical underpinnings of BLM is that black people in poor neighborhoods are in vastly more danger of being killed by young black men than by the occasional bad cop.

“Our demand is simple: Stop killing us,” the movement says—while people nationwide look on and see, especially during the summers, tragic epidemics of black-on-black homicides and maimings in one city after another. But America wonders: what about “Let’s stop killing each other”?

This year alone, in Chicago almost 80 percent of the people killed have been black. In Baltimore the figure is 216 black people versus 11 white, in Philadelphia 200 black people versus 44 white. Most by other black people. Source: Black Lives Matter Is Living in the Past – The Daily Beast

I am sure that this man will get called a house negro, a sellout, a race traitor; but that is all rubbish. It is a clear-headed assessment of the movement in itself and is very well written. I suggest you go read the rest of it, because it is very well written. Hats off to John McWhorter for telling the truth! 😀