I like think I made it clear that the intent of #BlackLivesMatter is to make people uncomfortable. John Lewis in 1963 was going to say in his speech on the March on Washington:
In good conscience, we cannot support wholeheartedly the administration's civil rights bill, for it is too little and too late. There's not one thing in the bill that will protect our people from police brutality...The revolution is a serious one. Mr. Kennedy is trying to take the revolution out of the streets and put it into the courts. Listen, Mr. Kennedy. Listen, Mr. Congressman. Listen, fellow citizens. The black masses are on the march for jobs and freedom, and we must say to the politicians that there won't be a "cooling-off" period.
All of us must get in the revolution. Get in and stay in the streets of every city, every village and every hamlet of this nation until true freedom comes, until the revolution is complete. In the Delta of Mississippi, in southwest Georgia, in Alabama, Harlem, Chicago, Detroit, Philadelphia and all over this nation, the black masses are on the march!
We won't stop now. All of the forces of Eastland, Bamett, Wallace and Thurmond won't stop this revolution. The time will come when we will not confine our marching to Washington. We will march through the South, through the heart of Dixie, the way Sherman did. We shall pursue our own scorched earth" policy and burn Jim Crow to the ground — nonviolently. We shall fragment the South into a thousand pieces and put them back together in the image of democracy. We will make the action of the past few months look petty. And I say to you, WAKE UP AMERICA!
A. Phillip Randolph told him to tone it down. He didn't want white people to feel uncomfortable.
Now Rand Paul feels uncomfortable and he's saying for #BlackLivesMatter to tone it down.
Rand Paul likes to think he's cool with black people. He likes to go and spout off ignorant talking points and whitesplain things to African American college students, students, I might add that know more about being black than he does. Rand Paul also doesn't get that Libertarianism caused the Ferguson and Baltimore uprisings, and that tax cuts could have saved Baltimore from being hollowed out by capitalism.
Rand Paul's idea of freedom is unregulated private tyranny controlling everything.
So of course he wants to whitesplain his opinions of what black people need. Not like he's ever listened to a black person before, but he's Rand Paul! He once read Ayn Rand, he's white, so of course, he knows everything!
On Sean Hannity, (like Rand Paul, another expert on race), Rand Paul actually said:
I think they should change their name maybe, if they were ‘All Lives Matter’ or ‘Innocent Lives Matter.' I am about justice, and frankly I think a lot of poor people in our country, and many African-Americans, are trapped in this war on drugs and I want to change it. But commandeering the microphone and bullying people and pushing people out of the way I think really isn’t a way to get their message across.
I’ve appeared with many members of the Congressional Black Caucus to talk about criminal justice, I’ve been to Howard University, I’ve discussed it in Chicago and other cities, and so I’m more than willing to discuss it, but having people take the microphone — they need to go somewhere else and they need to rent their own microphone.
To set up the punchline, I went to
OK! Magazine's website and used three headlines for what white people care about. I have no clue who Michael Wright, Michelle Keegan, or Tila Tequila even are.
Black Lives Matter is supposed to be a downer. It's supposed to be uncomfortable. Look, last year my daughter's cat got sick and died. Telling her was the hardest thing I had to do as a parent. My heart ached to tell my six-year-old about her cat. A cat! Now, that is frivolous compared to my black friends who have to have the talk with their children how not to get killed by police. #BlackLivesMatter is supposed to be uncomfortable because that's the only way things are going to change.
If that makes you feel uncomfortable, that's on you. You need to go deal with it because I don't want to hear about it.
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