Black Lives Matter Has A New Problem, And It Isn’t Corrupt Police Officers
This week, one of the most outspoken figures against Black Lives Matter, Bill O’Reilly, was on Late Night with Seth Meyers where he came out to make his point over why he believes the group is dangerous.
The idea against the Black Lives Matter movement has been gaining strength with every incident, often bringing up statistics to make their point, such as what former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani did soon after the killing of five Dallas police officers, even taking credit for saving more black lives than Black Lives Matters has.
When Rudy Giuliani blamed Black Lives Matter on Face TheNation over the weekend, it was largely seen as the former mayor not being specific to whether it was the phrasing or the group, but likely it was both.
The host of the program John Dickerson was on CBS This Morning the next day expressing how he wasn’t sure exactly what Giuliani was against.
But the weekday program proposed the other more common views broadly expressed about what the intended purpose of Black Lives Matter is, which initially took precedent for the cause since the beginning, but is now an idea which struggles more and more to get any footing in conservative circles.
#AllLivesMatter is like I go to the Dr for a broken arm and he says "All Bones Matter" ok but right now let's take care of this broken one
— SOAPbox (@djsoap92) July 6, 2016
The example being when Giuliani said that the phrase was “racist” and “Un-American.”
Both Rudy Giuliani and Bill O’Reilly are mainstays at Fox News, but since Giuliani has joined the network, he has drawn a lot of controversy for his opposition to many issues, one of them being the Black Lives Matter movement, which he has attacked since the beginning four years ago.
At the beginning of the video, Rudy Giuliani was asked about Newt Gingrich’s statement about white Americans not seeing the plight of blacks, as reported by the Statesman, which Giuliani responded to, saying that we would have to look at race differently in America, as we’ve been looking at it the same way for too long.
His response, however, can be seen in both ways; clearly the default would normally be broadly interpreted as adding more relevance to the Black Lives Matter movement, where police officers would need to stop killing unarmed black citizens.
But this is not the view Giuliani has, as what he really means — in hindsight of both conversations presented — is that blacks are no better than whites and are racist for creating the message in the first place, destroying property and blaming police officers and the nation for being racist.
In the case of Bill O’Reilly, he’s read polls and statistics on his program which are drawn up using research that comes from conservative research think tanks and analysts, such as Heather McDonald, who already have a bias on the subject and have written books against the idea of Black Lives Matter.
Over the years however, those who support Black Lives Matter are also seen as biased because they come from liberal sources, or they’re simply not conservative enough to be of any value to conservative circles.
After the killing of officers, it was reported by Inquisitr that the often opposed Twitter meme response to #BlackLivesMatter, #AllLivesMatter, in the form of protesters were meeting up with BLM in downtown Dallas which many felt was going to turn into a violent confrontation.
It was widely reported that it was actually an embrace, either of solidarity and support or a more non-aggressive stand against Black Lives Matter, which is simply something else to debate.
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