{"id":212863,"date":"2020-09-01T07:00:31","date_gmt":"2020-09-01T07:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=212863"},"modified":"2020-09-04T06:08:11","modified_gmt":"2020-09-04T06:08:11","slug":"social-justice-101-what-isnt-the-mainstream-media-telling-you-about-black-lives-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=212863","title":{"rendered":"What Isn’t the Mainstream Media Telling You About ‘Black Lives Matter’?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Michael Austin \u2013 Western Journal Aug 30, 2020<\/strong><\/h1>\n

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No group has dominated American discourse more thoroughly in 2020 than Black Lives Matter.<\/span><\/p>\n

BLM is a blanket term that covers various elements \u2014 there\u2019s the term itself, the movement motivated by it and the Marxist political organization that first sparked the movement and continues to fan its flames.<\/span><\/p>\n

Arguments between BLM critics and supporters often get bogged down because these three elements are frequently conflated and interchanged with one another; one person could be defending the term while the other is condemning the organization.<\/span><\/p>\n

That\u2019s why so many conversations about BLM end up going nowhere. If you don\u2019t want that to happen to you, read below to learn everything you need to know about Black Lives Matter:<\/span><\/p>\n

Defining the Term \u201cBlack Lives Matter\u201d<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Saying \u201cBlack Lives Matter\u201d isn\u2019t the same as arguing for racial equality. Virtually every conservative opposed to BLM<\/strong><\/span><\/a> already supports that sentiment.<\/span><\/p>\n

Instead, when a supporter says \u201cBlack Lives Matter,\u201d they are voicing a completely different opinion.<\/span><\/p>\n

What it means is this \u2014 that African Americans are an oppressed class, and that the aftereffects of slavery<\/a><\/strong><\/span> and Jim Crow have led to black families inheriting generational poverty.<\/span><\/p>\n

Moreover, it means that supposedly \u201cracist<\/strong><\/span><\/a>\u201d institutions such as police departments, businesses and the government \u2014 both at the local and federal level \u2014 prevent those many black families from achieving economic success.<\/span><\/p>\n

This assessment of American race relations, however, overlooks several important facts.<\/span><\/p>\n

What Black Lives Matter Overlooks<\/strong><\/h3>\n

The passing on of generational poverty likely has an effect on modern-day racial disparities, but if you look at the trajectory of black economic success, there are stronger correlative factors that explain these disparities.<\/span><\/p>\n

The first factor is the negative effect that welfare has had on lower-income communities.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Before then-President Lyndon Johnson\u2019s declared his \u201cWar on Poverty\u201d in 1964, the American poverty rate had been declining<\/strong><\/span><\/a> for decades. Then, after the implementation of what we now know as the modern welfare state, the poverty rate stagnated.<\/span><\/p>\n

For decades, African-Americans have been disproportionately represented<\/a><\/strong><\/span> among those receiving welfare.<\/span><\/p>\n

As the welfare state expanded, fatherlessness began to skyrocket, which disproportionately affected<\/a><\/strong><\/span> the black community as well.<\/span><\/p>\n

In a 2014 report for The Heritage Foundation<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, a conservative think tank, researcher Robert Rector explained the relationship between fatherlessness and poverty.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to Rector, single-parent families are \u201cfour times more likely to lack self-sufficiency.\u201d Therefore, he said, the rise in fatherlessness has \u201cexerted a powerful downward pull against self-sufficiency and substantially boosted the official child poverty rate.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWhen the War on Poverty began, 36 percent of poor families with children were headed by single parents. Today, the figure is 68 percent,\u201d Rector wrote.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cSince the beginning of the War on Poverty, less-educated mothers have increasingly become married to the welfare state and to the U.S. taxpayer rather than to the fathers of their children,\u201d he added.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAs means-tested benefits expanded, welfare began to serve as a substitute for a husband in the home, and low-income marriage began to disappear. As husbands left the home, the need for more welfare to support single mothers increased. The War on Poverty created a destructive feedback loop: Welfare promoted the decline of marriage, which generated a need for more welfare.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The real \u201cprivilege\u201d isn\u2019t racial \u2014 it\u2019s about whether you have two parents or not.<\/span><\/p>\n

And sadly, African-American children are more likely to live in single-parent homes that receive welfare.\u00a0But it has nothing to do with \u201cracism.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe U.S. is steadily separating into a two-caste system with marriage and education as the dividing line. In the high-income third of the population, children are raised by married parents with a college education; in the bottom-income third, children are raised by single parents with a high school degree or less,\u201d Rector explained.<\/span><\/p>\n

Fatherlessness, Crime and Police Presence in Black Communities<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Back in June 2008, then-Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama<\/strong><\/span><\/a> \u2014 who now parrots the BLM narrative \u2014 agreed that fatherlessness was hurting black communities.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe know that more than half of all black children live in single-parent households, a number that has doubled \u2014 doubled \u2014 since we were children,\u201d Obama said, according to Politico<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe know the statistics \u2014 that children who grow up without a father are five times more likely to live in poverty and commit crime; nine times more likely to drop out of schools and 20 times more likely to end up in prison. They are more likely to have behavioral problems, or run away from home or become teenage parents themselves. And the foundations of our community are weaker because of it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Tragically, higher levels of fatherlessness and inequality correlate to higher levels of crime in the black community.<\/span><\/p>\n

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INTERRACIAL HOMICIDES BETWEEN BLACKS AND WHITES (2015)<\/p>\n

Total: 729<\/p>\n

Homicides committed by blacks (13% of population) against whites: 500<\/p>\n

Homicides committed by whites (61% of population) against blacks: 229<\/p>\n

–FBI Uniform Crime Report, 2015https:\/\/t.co\/BrdKLcrUdU<\/a><\/p>\n

— Larry Elder (@larryelder) August 27, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n