I know my friends and family members who rushed to endorse #blacklivesmatter and #blackouttuesday meant well. I think it’s perhaps their way of saying “We’re white, but we’re not racists.”
But I have to ask them to please reconsider what they are actually
endorsing. When it comes to #BLM and that entire movement, we must
consider two very important things:
1). #blacklivesmatter is hypocritical; and more importantly, 2). #blacklivesmatter is actually a new radically insidious form of racism.
Let me explain.
First, #blacklivesmatter is hypocritical and is not really concerned about black lives at all. Here is how we know this:
• If #blacklivesmatter
(BLM) really cared about Black lives, they would be protesting the
thousands of murders of Black citizens each year by other Blacks. The
leading cause of death among Black men in their 20s is assault by other
African-Americans.
• If #blacklivesmatter
really cared about Black lives, they would be crying out against the
thousands of Black babies who are killed each year through
abortion-on-demand. More Black babies are aborted per capita than any
other racial group. (Remember, one of the primary goals of Margaret
Sanger, Planned Parenthood’s founder, was to control the Black
population’s numbers, because in her words, Blacks were “the population
least intelligent and fit.”) This is why most all the early Civil Rights
leaders, such as Martin Luther King, Jr., Ralph Abernathy, and Jesse
Jackson, were united in their stand against abortion, calling it
“genocide” and comparing it to slavery. Unfortunately, after the tragic
murder of Martin Luther King, Jackson changed his position to garner
favor with the Democrat Party. But Abernathy preached against abortion
until his death.
• If #blacklivesmatter
really cared about Black lives, they would want better police
protection for their neighborhoods and their children, not less.
Shockingly, one of the primary goals of #BLM is “national defunding of
police” – their words, not mine.
• If #blacklivesmatter
really cared about Black lives, they would not sanction the wanton
destruction of Black businesses and the killing of Black business owners
through the rampage of looting and destruction which resulted in
stopping bus services and reduced many Black neighborhoods to a bare,
survival state. Such destruction is contrary to everything Martin Luther
King stood for. When he received the Nobel Peace Prize, he said,
“Civilization and violence are antithetical concepts.”
• If #blacklivesmatter
really cared about Black lives, they would protest the reckless and
deliberate killing of so many Black police officers each year by Black
criminals.
Secondly, I ask you to consider this: I believe #blacklivesmatter
is simply a new form of racism and informed African-Americans agree. It
is insidious because it hides under a cover of being against racism and
that’s why it is so deceptive.
To White evangelicals, it seems so virtuous to endorse #blacklivesmatter.
But by endorsing this movement, you are endorsing a far-left group with
a militant and very liberal political agenda. They are self-proclaimed
Marxist.
Also, #BLM is very clear about its agenda – fight
“economic injustice” (code for socialism and take money from people who
work and give it to those who don’t), defend LGBTQIA+ rights (code for
make everyone who opposes the LGBTQ movement appear intolerant and
racist), and “voter rights and suppression” (code for make sure Blacks
can vote without ID). All of this is from their website www.blacklivesmatter.com. I
strongly urge you to take a look at their website and read their
ideology and purpose statement. Also, note the number of times they use
the word, “comrade.” Language matters.
Nowhere on their website is there any mention of racial
reconciliation or improving race relations. So, if you think by
endorsing #BLM you’re showing your support for better race relations,
you wrong. That is not their goal and they make no pretense that it is.
Let me explain why I think #blacklivesmatter
is a subtle form of racism. Here is the core of the #BLM message—in my
words: “Because the ancestors of many African-Americans were brought to
America and held as slaves and because of Jim Crow Laws and segregation
which were practiced in the South for decades, and because there have
been cases of police brutality and injustice over the years, Blacks are
excused if they want to loot, steal, riot, break the law, kill, and
commit other crimes both against fellow Blacks and other races as well.”
At its root, the #BLM premise is a serious diminution of
Blacks. #BLM is basically saying, “Most Blacks are incapable of obeying
the law, keeping a job, or getting voter ID, like everyone else is
expected to do.”
I remember years ago when I heard the famous Black
Christian leader John Perkins describe the welfare system of the
Democrat Party as the new version of the “White man’s plantation”—just
another way to keep the Black man down and totally dependent.
The same could be said about #blacklivesmatter.
Considering someone of another race as less capable of good, lawful,
and virtuous activity simply because they are of that race, is racism
pure and simple—even if it is said by members of that race themselves.
But that is the underlying principle of the #BLM message.
And it simply is not true. You know it isn’t true. Think
about your fellow workers, members of your church, or your neighbors
who are Black. You know the #BLM narrative is false. But that’s where we
are today. #BLM does not give any credit to the overwhelming majority
of African-Americans—several of whom are my neighbors and friends, who
are good citizens, raising their families, obeying the law, working
hard, paying their taxes, definitely not looting, stealing, or killing,
but they are wonderfully serving their communities, pledging allegiance
to the American flag, serving in the military, protecting their
communities as police officers, going to church, and worshiping God.
So please, reconsider jumping on the racist bandwagon of #blacklivesmatter and #blackouttuesday.
Please think again. Truth matters. Facts matter. That’s why millions of
African-Americans stoutly oppose the #BLM movement, including leading
scholars such as my heroes Thomas Sowell (Hoover Institution at
Stanford) and Walter E. Williams (professor of economics at George Mason
University), along with many other Black leaders, including former
Civil Rights leader Bob Woodson who flatly denies that there is
“systemic racism” in America, the one and only articulate Candace Owens,
and the brilliant theologian Dr. Voddie Baucham.
Please don’t fall for the #BLM lie. Facts matter and the facts do not support the lies of the #BLM movement. Truth matters, but #blacklivesmatter
doesn’t really care about the truth. Listen to other Black
voices—serious, reflective, honest voices and you will quickly see the
difference.
This message was preached on June 28, 2020, at Summit Springs Church, Blue Springs, MO.
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