There's an ugly cynicism lurking behind the Black Lives Matter movement

June 20, 2020 By Andrea Widburg

In America, woe betide anyone who dares to say that "all lives" rather than just "black lives" matter. There is an ash heap behind Black Lives Matter headquarters on which lie the rotting carcasses of those foolish enough to say that "all lives matter."

A viral video, however, shows that the contention that, for Democrats, the mantra that "black lives matter" is a slogan without substance. The video (scroll down to view) shows white health care workers massed in front of an unnamed medical center. Many of them hold signs supporting the Black Lives Matter movement. This is a woke white crowd that's signaling its virtue.

In the video, an unseen man with a stentorian bass voice — a man who is almost certainly black himself — asks the healthcare workers, "Do all black lives matter or just some black lives?"

The health care workers, like the well trained useful idiots they are, enthusiastically repeat back to him, "All black lives matter." He has another question for them. "The black lives killed by black men matter, right?"............... As the health care workers grapple with the question of black-on-black crime, which accounts for 93% of all black homicide victims, one woman positions herself at the front of the group. She kneels, carefully holding a sign that, while difficult to read, seems to say something about "white" people supporting black lives.  Then, the unseen man springs the 15.5-million baby question:.............. To Read More