Candace Owens’ October, 2022, 80-minute documentary, The Greatest Lie Ever Sold: George Floyd and the Rise of BLM, a Daily Wire production, is an agonizing watch. Beginning in spring, 2020, destructive and deadly riots broke out across the United States. These riots self-advertised as being all about a “racial reckoning.”
If you were a leftist living in a comfortable suburb far from the arson, looting, and public torture, you could look on and cheer the apparent downfall of the country and the value system you benefit from, and that you irrationally and hypocritically hate. If you were, like me and millions of others, living in a majority-minority, low-income city already burdened with high murder rates, 2020’s riots felt like a terrifying, demoralizing death spiral. We never knew when our homes would burn, when our grocers would be looted and permanently closed, when our fragile economies of immigrant-run mom-and-pop shops would be cut off at the knees, when our banks would shrug, give up, and leave town, when our cars would be incinerated, when our property values, already low, would plummet, when our black and Latino police officers would be shot dead, and when we would be the bystanders whose random death would add to the body count. In addition to those killed in the riots, 2,457 more black Americans were murdered in 2020 than in 2019, “marking the largest single-year increase in killings since the agency began tracking the crimes.” Anti-policing policies and attitudes and increasing lawlessness are to blame for these deaths and thousands more, research has shown.
Money is less of a concern for rich leftists than it is for those of us who are living on the edge. The poor know that poverty can be a death sentence. As we watched looters empty stores, especially stores in neighborhoods like ours, majority minority, economically weak urban enclaves, we knew: everything is about to start costing a lot more. Someone has to pay for the CVS, the Walgreens, and Walmarts being emptied out. The looters aren’t paying, so we will. The over-the-counter medications we rely on for chronic illnesses, drugs not covered by insurance, will take income away from our food budgets. Insurance rates will skyrocket, as will inflation. The little money we have will be worth less.
No, if you were a comfortable leftist living in a safe suburb you didn’t have to confront the consequences of your support for BLM. I just had a quick look at the pages of Facebook friends who posted wall-to-wall BLM support during 2020’s riots. One is now posting updates on the performance of her thoroughbred horses in various show competitions. One, who sobbed over the death of Queen Elizabeth, is now visiting Buckingham Palace. One has gone back to posting her scores in online word games. Another posts stunning photos of her expansive gardens. Their BLM passion was as short-lived as it was shallow.
Clearly, rich leftists have moved on to the next fad. We in blighted urban neighborhoods will never move on. Riots scar a city for generations. Capital, jobs, and safety depart and move to greener pastures. Newark has yet to recover from the riots of the 1960s. One estimate of the total cost of the George Floyd riots is $2 billion. That number is too low, for a few reasons. The Foundation for Economic Education explains. “Seventy-five percent of US businesses are under-insured and about forty percent of small businesses have no insurance at all. Their untold millions in losses don’t show up in the $2 billion figure … riots leave a lasting shadow on a city that haunts its economy for decades. The afflicted areas face higher insurance rates, lower property values, higher prices, reduced tax revenue, and decreased economic opportunity.” Finally, the damage done to human bodies and souls is not factored in to the $2 billion tab. An elderly man attempted to defend a property. Rioters broke his jaw. His pain and suffering, and subsequent sense of isolation and insecurity, and that of thousands of others, inevitably produces an economic drag, one it is difficult to estimate, but is no less real.
And all for nothing. Every last looting spree, every last rock thrown at the head of a beaten, bleeding white man lying helplessly in the street, every defaced synagogue, every not just ignorant but insane tearing down of a statue of a martyr to abolition like Hans Christian Heg or Abraham Lincoln, was for absolutely nothing. As Heather MacDonald, Roland G. Fryer, John McWhorter and others struggled to communicate, America is not racist, and there is no statistical support for the claim that there is an epidemic of white cops shooting unarmed black men to death for no reason. Officer Derek Chauvin was arrested four days after the death of George Floyd. He was rapidly charged, convicted, and imprisoned. In mainstream and social media, Chauvin was universally condemned, by both the left and the right. Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, beloved by police officers, famous as a tough-on-crime icon, roundly and repeatedly condemned Chauvin on his WABC radio show.
Owens’ The Greatest Lie Ever Sold adds to the agony with simple truths. I want every American to watch this documentary, even though I know that watching it may well hurt.
The film opens with a quote from Malcolm X. “The Media is the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and the make the guilty innocent.” I differ from Owens on this point. The media includes Candace Owens, and the media includes this review. The media is vast and consumers can select what media they support.
Next we see video of Floyd purchasing cigarettes with a counterfeit twenty dollar bill. The employees in the store are clearly minorities themselves. Cup foods employee Mike Abumayyaleh explains that they only call the police if the person using a counterfeit bill refuses to pay with other tender. George Floyd, apparently, when confronted, refused to pay with a real bill. In his refusal to use real money, even when confronted, Floyd made one of many choices that preceded his death. Officer Thomas Lane’s bodycam shows Floyd in a car with his drug dealer, not cooperating with the police. A caption reports that he resisted being placed in a squad car for eight minutes. Derek Chauvin was called in as backup. Had Floyd not resisted arrest, Derek Chauvin would never have been on the scene.
The film cuts to Candace Owens’ June 3 video. Owens, a black woman, rejected worldwide hysteria turning George Floyd into a Messianic figure. “I do not support George Floyd and the media depiction of him as a martyr for black America.” She cited Shelby Steele, paraphrasing him as saying that blacks are unique in that they “cater to the bottom denominator in our society.” Jews, whites, and Latinos, she said, would not hold up a felon as a culture hero. Owens made clear that she was not defending Derek Chauvin and she hoped to see Chauvin receive appropriate justice. She said also that the family of George Floyd deserves justice for the “way that he died.” “But I’m not going to accept the narrative that this is the best that the black community has to offer.’ “It has become fashionable for us to turn criminals into heroes.” “The only way you can be black is to say that this person was amazing. I’m not going to do that. George Floyd was not amazing.” “Everyone agrees that the police officer was wrong and the police officer has been arrested. That’s not something that has been misconstrued in the media.” Any black person who does not go along with the celebration of criminals is labeled a “coon.” Condoleezza Rice, Dr. Ben Carson, Larry Elder are all, in this understanding, “coons,” because they are educated high achievers.
Any fair minded person watching Owens’ June 3 video immediately realizes two things. The first thing a fair-minded person realizes is that Candace Owens is a straight-shooter and a person of depth and conscience. She is struggling to be as fair as possible in a very difficult situation. She never says that Floyd deserved to die as he did; she says quite the opposite. She never defends Chauvin; she says he deserves “justice.” No matter how hard Owens works to state a simple truth – she does not believe that black people benefit from making criminals their heroes – the viewer knows that Candace Owens will be vilified, threatened, and damned for what she had the courage and decency to say.
Dave Chappelle exhibited his signature cruelty, bullying, cowardice, misogyny, and, most important, his complete dishonesty. “Candace Owens tried to convince white America, ‘Don’t worry about it. He’s a criminal anyway.'” Chappelle is lying. Candace Owens said no such thing, and she clearly wasn’t talking to “white America.” In his pot-and-tobacco ruined voice, his eyes bugging out of his bald head, Chapelle gurgled out that Candace Owens is a “rotten bitch” and he mentioned kicking Owens in her “stinky pussy.”
Owens said that such attacks made everything “personal” for her. “I am going to scream the truth” more loudly than others “can scream the lies.” Candace Owens has more courage and integrity in her little finger than Dave Chappelle has in his six foot frame.
Owens visits George Floyd’s housemates, Alvin Manago and Theresa Scott. Their previously shared home looks lovely; his roommates, a man and a woman, come across as nice people. Both are kind and respectful in their comments about Floyd. They acknowledge that Floyd was an addict, but say that he kept that out of the house. The man they knew was a valued friend, they insist.
Manago says that at memorials people would circulate metal boxes and ask for money. “I don’t know who you are or where this is going.” Clips show the Floyd family acknowledging trips to the White House and crying. The documentary reports that none of them ever went to Floyd’s house to pick up his things. His car was still in the driveway. Neither Manago nor Scott had the paperwork necessary to address the car. Owens herself arranged to have it removed, and she gave Manago and Scott money to cover the rent they lost after Floyd’s death.
In the film, Scott emphasizes how surprised she was that no family members ever came to Floyd’s home for the final years of his life, the home where his belongings were still to be found. Manago says that he would like to meet Floyd’s daughter, as that daughter is “an extension of him.” Manago and Scott chat about people coming forward and claiming to be Floyd’s children, but proven wrong through DNA checks. Evidently there were rumors that some tried to capitalize on worldwide sympathy for Floyd by claiming false relationships. The documentary does not make clear if these rumors are accurate.
Owens lays bare George Floyd’s extensive criminal history. In 2007, Floyd and his accomplices forced entry into the home of Aracely Henriquez, pistol-whipped her, and ransacked her home. Henriquez’s seven-year-old son identified Floyd. “How absolutely traumatized that child was,” Owens remarks. “Just a few years later, children are wearing his shirt, and referring to him as hero and savior. That’s wrong … Two things can be true at once. George Floyd didn’t deserve to die. And this person was not a saint,” she says.
In a 2019 arrest video, “I want my momma, man,” Floyd moans. Who exactly was George Floyd’s “momma”? On the witness stand, Courtney Ross, Floyd’s girlfriend, with whom he sometimes used opioids, testifies that Floyd called her “momma,” and indeed he listed her phone number on his phone as “momma.” “Calling out for his mother was a nice victim narrative,” Owens observes.
Owens is shown speaking on her phone to an interlocutor we cannot hear. This, we learn, is Derek Chauvin’s mother. For understandable reasons, she is afraid to speak to Owens. Unable to gain access to Chauvin or his mother, Owens turns to people who knew him. Sargent Joey Sandberg says that “Derek is quiet, somewhat quirky, very dependable. Derek is the kind of guy you want to show up on your calls with you. He’s very level headed.” Sandberg says that Chauvin is allowed no reading material, no TV, no computer, and he is alone in his cell twenty-three hours a day. Since the documentary was filmed, Chauvin has been moved to another prison.
Lieutenant Kim Voss insists that Chauvin never revealed any racist tendencies. Indeed, Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, a Muslim and a black man, said, “I wouldn’t call [Floyd’s death a hate crime] because hate crimes are crimes where there’s an explicit motive and bias. We don’t have any evidence that Derek Chauvin factored in George Floyd’s race as he did what he did.”
In the “widely circulated video taken by a bystander” “the camera angle suggests” that Chauvin “kneeled on George Floyd’s neck the whole time.” But Officer Alexander Kueng’s camera showed Chauvin’s knee on Floyd’s shoulder blade. How long Chauvin’s knee was on Floyd’s shoulder has been debated. In another video, Floyd also says “I can’t breathe” before he is put on the ground, at his own request.
Dr. Ron Martinelli is a forensic criminologist and Certified Medical Investigator. Martinelli tells Owens that there was evidence that Floyd had consumed a lethal cocktail of fentanyl and methamphetamine. In video from the trial, Dr. Andrew Baker, Chief Medical Examiner of Hennepin County, testifies that the level of fentanyl found in Floyd’s system, had he been found dead absent any interaction with police, would have been assessed as enough to have killed him. “I would certify his death as fentanyl toxicity.”
Martinelli says that Floyd’s heart suffered from cardiomegaly, that is, an enlarged heart, a sign of ill health. “That is significant.” “There is zero evidence,” he says, to prove that Floyd was unable to intake sufficient oxygen. The suggestion is that Floyd did not die of asphyxiation. This conclusion is controversial and debated. On October 17, for example, the Washington Post accused Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, of lying when he said that Floyd died from a drug overdose. The reason that the asphyxiation v. drug overdose battle is so hot is clear. If Floyd died of a drug overdose, he was responsible for his own death and the larger narrative becomes an anti-drug-abuse narrative. If Derek Chauvin asphyxiated Floyd, Chauvin is responsible for his death, and the larger narrative is one of black innocence, white racism, and police brutality.
Owens interviews a few people whose lives were damaged by Floyd protestors. Liz Collin is a former news anchor. She is married to former Minneapolis police chief Bob Kroll. “Within minutes” of Floyd’s death, Collin reports, tweets appeared saying, paraphrase, Bob Kroll and Liz Collin will be dead by the time the year ends. The mob also threatened to murder their seven-year-old son. Protestors made pinatas of Collin and Kroll dressed as Klansmen. and Representative John Thompson, spewing obscenities, beat these effigies in Collin’s and Kroll’s home driveway. Collin lost her job, and was unable to get any other job.
Kitson is a boutique in LA where celebrities sometimes shop. Fraser Ross is the owner. He called Kitson “a general store for the rich.” Looters stole over $400 thousand of merchandise. Chrissy Teigen posted that she would donate hundreds of thousands of dollars in bail money for rioters. “They all live in gated communities and it’s not their stuff being destroyed,” Ross observes.
Ross posted a looting photo and said “Thanks Chrissy.” She replied, “I’m gonna not shop at your store so hard.” Influencers Jen Atkin and Dana Omari inevitably accused Ross of being a racist. Omari sent Ross a lengthy private message detailing how he must grovel in public to avoid further wrath. During a phone call, Omari extorted a ten thousand dollar donation to Black Lives Matter. Without that donation, she said, she would ruin his business through her internet posts.
Not just individual lives, but the lives of communities were destroyed by the Floyd riots. These were largely non-white, low-income communities. Pastor Charles Karuku grew up in Kenya. He is president of Unity Movement Institute. Of the Floyd riots, Pastor Karuku says, “I’m used to this in Third World countries, but not in America, and not in Minnesota … This is not ‘Minnesota Nice.'” Karuku and Owens walk past a sign reading, “You are now entering the Free State of George Floyd.”
Karuku explains, “This is an autonomous zone that operates outside the laws of the United States … They do whatever they want … We’ve seen a woman who was pregnant shot right in front of us.”
Shops are boarded up. Insurance would never cover all the losses. Owens and Karuku pass an open-air altar to George Floyd. There is a drawing in the street representing his body. Flowers and artwork surround it. A cardboard sign reads, “Sacred space.”
“We have better people to follow,” the pastor says. “Like Jesus Christ, who epitomized what we would like to emulate.”
“BLM raised ninety million dollars on the back of George Floyd. Where is that money?” Owens asks.
“I don’t know. It’s not here … Everything looks worse than it was… Some of these organizations can only get money if they propagate hatred. They are not helping the community. They are helping themselves,” Karuku says.
George Floyd’s former housemates say that they have not seen a dime of BLM money, though they are carrying the expenses Floyd used to carry.
Silicone Valley entrepreneur and bestselling author Vivek Ramaswamy says that during the Floyd riots, his business milieu insisted on “a pledge of allegiance to this one man into some type of new modern messiah figure. The religious quality was odd. The bending the knee … I didn’t recite the same ritual incantation that every other CEO was pledging allegiance to across the country.”
A BLM front person bought a mansion for three million, and then sold it to BLM for six million within days, creating a personal profit of three million. “That’s a self-dealing transaction.”
BLM founder Patrisse Cullors hired her mother and her brother to work at the property. The brother is a graffiti artist. He was hired to handle security. His salary is $840 thousand for one year. Cullors’ baby daddy received $969 thousand. Cullors also channeled money to her wife, Jenaya Khan, who appears to have had surgery to appear as a male. Even so, a photo of Khan can receive this kind of caption from Vogue, “Louis Vuitton vest and pants. Mejuri pendant necklace. Hair, Marcia Hamilton; makeup, Tasha Reiko Brown. Fashion Editor: Yashua Simmons. Produced by: GE Projects. Photographed by Melodie McDaniel.” A bit different from “Arise ye prisoners of starvation. Arise ye wretched of the earth.”
BLM has poured over two million dollars into trans groups, including groups for trans sex workers. Owens attempts to investigate Living through Giving, an organization that received $2.3 million from BLM. Photos reveal that Cullors knew the recipient, AJ Vreeland, at least as early as 2019. Living through Giving purports to distribute free lunches. Owens was unable to find any such distribution.
$32 million of Marxist, anti-Western, anti-American BLM’s assets went into the stock market.
Owens goes to “celebrity enclave” Laurel Canyon. In this segment, petite Candace Owens is very obviously pregnant. She is dressed, as ever, impeccably. She merely approaches the gate of Cullors’ mansion, a mansion purchased with the blood of innocents like David Dorn.
Intercut with Owens’ inoffensive approach to Cullors’ mansion is video of Cullors herself, whining online that Candace Owens is threatening her. It would be comical were it not so disgusting. Owens is a petite woman; she is carrying a child; she is speaking in soft, polite tones. All she wants is to speak to someone. Cullors labels Owens’ visit a veritable terrorist assault. “She was demanding that I come outside,” Cullors lies into her video camera. “It’s unacceptable and it’s dangerous to come outside of my house.” One thinks of the houses burned to the ground by Cullors’ followers. “What happened this morning is not safety. It’s not what I deserve. It’s not what any of us deserve. They’re trying to destroy me.” No, Cullors. Owens was just trying to tell the truth.
It goes without saying that Cullors’ security team is, as Owens reports, a white male and a German shepherd.
“What could be more emblematic of BLM than that?” Owens asks. “Playing the victim, to the public, hoping that you can get sympathy and that sympathy will transform into dollars.” “The real story” of George Floyd’s death, Owens insists, “is a story of addiction. That could have brought people together globally. This was a man who was high on drugs … it is a story of a man who overdosed.” Instead, BLM uses “black emotion and black pain to extort dollars from white America.”
In 2020, Minneapolis saw a 58% increase in murder. In 2021, the city recorded the highest number of homicides in over 20 years.
Danusha Goska is the author of God through Binoculars: A Hitchhiker at a Monastery.
“Riots scar a city for generations.”
Or longer. One of the things I sometimes look for when reading history is cities that didn’t recover for centuries, or ever. There are a lot of them.
Floyd was hooping fentanyl before the encounter, 4 times the lethal dose. Fentanyl makes it hard to breathe. The position Chauvin used was designed to allow the subject to breathe. The probabilities are that fentanyl killed Floyd.
I imagine Chauvin had been conned by criminals many times. He knew Floyd might use any ploy to escape arrest. He probably preferred to keep such a large man on the ground, for safety, and used the preferred safe method of restraint. Letting Floyd up would have been very risky and unwise. Chauvin was convicted long before he ever entered a courtroom. There was no way for this man to receive a fair trial.
I don’t believe that Derek Chauvin was guilty of anything, he is, like the January 6th political prisoners, in solidarity confinement but he at least had a show trial.
Great coverage thanks.
All those who supported the BLM and all their lies, could not go back…. They will continue to spread the idiocy, see their hatred towards certain black conservatives. Who among them is going to apologize? “I was mistaken”…
The BLMs are clearly a group developing fascitoid and totalitarian behaviors. He sows discord, it seeks to socially destroy people.
And in no way serves the interests of the black American community.
Candace is very brave, she has my full support.
Let’s remember…
1) Floyd was being arrested for passing a fake $20 bill
2) Floyd was already put in the Police car and he busted out
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All this means…
1) The McMichael’s are not guilty of murder
2) Kyle Rittenhouse IS a murderer
The McMichaels are not guilty of murder. – FIXED THAT FOR YOU
That’s what I said…
You ain’t real bright… are ya?
I’m not going to pay to see yet another movie (The Trayvon Martin Hoax) about yet another hoax-scam by scheming, black, con-artists to get rich and powerful with yet another hoax-scam.
Black Americans have been doing this for more than a 150 years. It’s an economic niche of theirs, like La Cosa Nostra is for Italian-Americans, or food trucks are for Mexican-Americans, or the jewelry business is for the ultra-orthodox Jews. The Tawana Brawley Hoax, The Barry Soetoro now known as Barrack Obama Hoax — blacks have got this down to an art form.
“There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs — partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.” ― Booker T. Washington
Love the the righteous indignation, the brio. Wow, you just found out the civil rights movement is a scam.
“Christianity is the best kindergarten for communism.” – Ayn Rand
How’s your Lutheran Church Scam coming along? Taking stolen wealth from the American tax-payer to redistribute to the Illegal Alien Invaders and destroy America, all in the name of Christian altruism and self-sacrifice?
“It stands to reason that where there’s sacrifice, there’s someone collecting sacrificial offerings. Where there’s service, there’s someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice, speaks of slaves and masters. And intends to be the master.” – Ayn Rand
“Christianity is the best kindergarten for communism.” – Ayn Rand
Of course she means all of christianity. Communism is well known for persecuting Christians that follow Jesus Christ. It has the same foundation that Rand had and that is atheism. Interesting that those that promote Marxism and those that supposedly promote anti communism and capitalism both attack Christianity. Both Marxism and Randianism are out to oppose any rivals to their systems of thought. That is why there is certainly a danger of a totalitarian movement coming out of Randianism, if it ever gains political power. The reason that communism and Randianism both oppose biblical christianity is that it requires that one is first commitment to the Creator and Redeemer God. Since both Marxism and Randianism are out to capture and control the thinking and behavior of individuals they must oppose Christianity. In doing so they must oppose any individual or collective loyalty to the living God. Political power is the real objective and not rationality as is often claimed by Marxists and Randians.
Christianity produced the one-thousand years of the totalitarian theocracy which were the Christian Dark Ages. Christianity when practiced in its comprehensive totality has nothing to do with reason, logic, science, freedom, liberty, individualism, individual rights, private property rights, capitalism, or the personal pursuit of happiness on earth.
Christianity, like its secular, bastard, child of Marxism, is about the pursuit of death and misery in a fantasy utopia — after you’re DEAD. The Cult of Jesus gave birth to the Cult of Marx.
“Holy Scripture and the Welfare State” – Richard M. Salsman
https://www.forbes.com/sites/richardsalsman/2011/04/28/holy-scripture-and-the-welfare-state/?sh=2b2ad25224f2
“How’s your Lutheran Church Scam coming along? ” You’re painting with too broad a brush. Lutheran Social Services is an affiliate of the ELCA, which is a far left version of Lutheranism. They even allow gays and lesbians to become pastors. The LCMS (Missouri Synod) and the WELS (WIsconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod) would never allow such a thing. They don’t even allow women to serve on the Board of Elders of their churches.
You are sure avoiding your devil – altruism – by conflating legitimate businesses with crimes and scams.
“I’m not going to pay to see yet another movie (The Trayvon Martin Hoax) about yet another hoax-scam by scheming, black, con-artists to get rich and powerful with yet another hoax-scam.”
Who gives a fuck?
“Black Americans have been doing this for more than a 150 years”
My father worked 20 years with black Americans, and with Luther Allison, I never saw them participate in this, never even complain, nor call white people racist, but work honestly to earn a living. I suspected that you were someone despicable, I am now convinced of it. I didn’t know that all Italian Americans worked in the mafia, or that all Mexicans worked in food trucks, or that all Orthodox Jews worked in jewelry…
Black Americans who condemn the BLM movement are very numerous. We haven’t heard enough of them.
You forgot about all the non-blacks who supported BLM and gave it money. the racism card also allows non-black people to make money. The Democratic Party supported the BLM, it is not only made up of black people.
Did I say “ALL” blacks, or all Italians, or all Mexicans, or all ultra-orthodox Jews?
So it’s despicable to observe and point out that different ethnic groups in America, different demographic groups, have patterns, have sub-cultures in them, have economic niches, have shared mores and traditions?
In 80% of shootings in every major city in America the perp is identified by the victim or witnesses as black — is that despicable to say? Is that racist?
” is that despicable to say? Is that racist?”
I didn’t call you racist to begin with. When we write “Black americans”, we don’t write “Some blacks americains”, it doesn’t have the same meaning. The vast majority of blacks in the United States have not made a living from what you are talking about. The number of black active members of the BLM represent a tiny, tiny fraction of the American black population. You talk about it as if it’s part of their way of living economically, that it would even be central to their culture. You have no idea of the number of black Americans who reject all these organizations and who see in it a danger. They are not shown to you in the media, nor in Hollywood films. The vast majority of blacks do not participate in any of this, but work honestly. That’s all I remember. The BLM represents a fraudulent organization, and what you wrote could suggest that this kind of organization would allow the black american community to live economically, that the whole of the black community would be complicit in this.
My comment includes a quote from Booker T. Washington where he clearly states “There is another class of coloured people who make a business of …”
But you chose to ignore that part of my comment which clearly qualifies my comment.
“Black Americans who condemn the BLM movement are very numerous. We haven’t heard enough of them.”
And it has been argued that the majority of American Muslims condemn Jihad and Sharia Law. IF this is true they are irrelevant and of no practical or historical consequence. The tiny minority that believe in Jihad and Sharia are steering the ship, they always have been. The American Revolution, the French Terror, the Soviet Dark Age, were created by minorities within minorities, the majority simply followed.
“History [for good or evil] is made by minorities—or, more precisely, history is made by intellectual movements, which are created by minorities. Who belongs to these minorities? Anyone who is able and willing actively to concern himself with intellectual issues. Here, it is not quantity, but quality that counts (the quality—and consistency—of the ideas one is advocating).” – Ayn Rand
“And it has been argued that the majority of American Muslims condemn Jihad and Sharia Law. ”
You talk to me about other things. Comparison is not reason..
Booker T. Washington is talking about a class in the community… He’s not talking about the whole black community…”There is another class of colored people”, which means there is a group representing according to him a class. This class is not the whole.
There is today, within the American black community, a group that supports all this bullshit. But they do not represent the entire black American community. It is of this class of which Booker T. Washington speaks.
“the majority simply followed”…
When you have a gun in front of you, you don’t think the same way. I am opposed to Palestinism, I have lived in Israel, I know very well that many Arabs in this region do not support all this. But you have to go on living and not everyone is a hero… In Gaza a lot of people can’t take it anymore, but Hamas is violent and does everything to maintain silence. In the United States there are a lot of young people who have been conditioned, this does not prevent a big movement at the moment from not following like sheep. Candace is part of this movement, I find it deplorable that you reduce her documentary to your description in your first comment : ““I’m not going to pay to see yet another movie (The Trayvon Martin Hoax) about yet another hoax-scam by scheming, black, con-artists to get rich and powerful with yet another hoax-scam.””
I find that pathetic.
To the contrary, the overall majority of black Americans supported BLM. 83% of Blacks express some support for BLM. While 58% strongly support it. Your anecdotal stories that you knew some black people who don’t support BLM is irrelevant.
Your data is no longer good. And I don’t trust those kinds of polls. from Northwestern University’s Center for the Study of Diversity… They are from 2021, a period when support was indeed at its highest, in all communities: Asian 68%, and Hispanic 60%. And According to Northwestern University’s Center for the Study of Diversity.
Also you must make the difference between the one who is in a real political activity and the one who is not. How many active members registered? And how many participated in the riots on the entire black community ?
How many have actually participated in political activity. ? You will see that this represents as I wrote, a tiny, tiny part of the entire black American community.
And Since the media did not do their job of informing, it is normal that so many people supported the BLM… You must take into account the high level of conditioning and misinformation.
It’s a known phenomenon, if the media had really done their job of informing, believe me that a lot less people would have supported the BLM.
The poll, from Northwestern University’s Center for the Study of Diversity, was conducted on 815 black Americans. In 2017.
What is the source of your data?
Here another source from 2020, a poll conducted by The Pew Research Center: https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/09/16/support-for-black-lives-matter-has-decreased- since-june-but-remains-strong-among-black-americans/
And no, your poll does not come from APA, but from the Pew Research Center that I mentioned above. There is an article on the APA website that talks about this poll. : https://www.apa.org/monitor/2022/01/numbers-black-lives
At the end of the article : “Source: Pew Research Center survey of U.S. adults, conducted Sept. 13–19, 2021″”
Wrong.
First off it’s not my data. Second, the data is from the APA as of 2022, and there findings are that black support for BLM has REMAINED stable.
Again, your anecdotal stories about knowing a few black people is irrelevant. Considering blacks only make up 13% of the population, but support BLM at 83% shows it’s not a tiny fringe of the black community that supports BLM.
Nicholas, If there is a decline in support, blacks are still wildly over-represented in their support of BLM. Let’s say the 83% support has fallen. How far you think it’s fallen? Down from 83% to 65%? Still, at 13% of the population that is quite a lot of support.
I make a difference between the one who answers yes to a poll, and the one who is in a real political activity, the one who participated in the riots, the one who is an active and registered member. We do not arrive at the same result. And as I wrote to you above you have to take into account the high level of disinformation in the media. Even me at the beginning I was not immediately against the BLM. I had to do my own research. But not everyone does that, which is very sad and worrying. If what Candace describes had been shown nationally, in all media platforms, many more people would not have supported this organization. We must realize the impact that disinformation, propaganda, has on the populations.
It’s a story that needs to be told. I followed the details as they emerged. I was appalled at the Floyd hysteria.
For years the propaganda (i.e. narrative) was regurgitated over and over again, trying to take advantage of the lack of facts during the initial stages of any incident. When Floyd died, leftist yelled “this is what we’ve been talking about” once again spewing a narrative instead of waiting for all the facts.
I noticed few talk about Floyd today … I think they realize that he’s not the Saint who died for our sins and the police, who were trying to hold him securely while the ambulance arrived, were not out to “kill a black man.” Even Keith Ellison admits that (as the article points out) and I repeat that to anyone who uses the word “racism” in regards to Floyd’s death.
As other here point out, Floyd is Tywana Brawley + Michael Brown + countless other hoaxes.
Some things need to be known, if for nothing else but for the sake a balanced perspective
Which is that George Floyd was a vicious hardened criminal therefore it’s very wrong to make some kind of a “hero” out of hooligan was such criminal that he not was not only on drugs but was also involved in drug trafficking .
Mr. Floyd was so totally despicable that he even entered a pregnant woman’s home under a false premise of deception to let his lawless ruffians lot her home , all the while he threateningly pointed a gun to that pregnant woman’s stomached ‘You better cooperate.”
The list of crimes that Floyd was guilty of can to go on. It’s absurd as well as wrong to make a “hero” out of heinously wicked thug. As the Bible reads “Woe to those who call evil good…” Isaiah 5:20. [N.K.J.V.]
In reality, George Floyd, was not a “good man” by any valid definition of the term.
Floyd was a vicious violent drugs trafficking criminal. This fact the politically correct news media deliberately refuses to inform the public of.
Officer Chauvin did not kill Floyd, there is zero physical evidence of such, Floyd died from a fatal dose of Fentanyl and methamphetamine in his system. Floyd also had severe heart disease AND tested positive for Covid!!! Funny how his death wasn’t listed as a Covid death.
Floyd was a hardened career criminal who had a drug addiction since early adulthood. Floyd was a degenerate scumbag and POS. Good riddance .
Officer Chauvin was nothing more than a scapegoat. Like the great Civil Rights Icon Shelby Steele exclaimed “Only the black community would hold up a career criminal as a saint.”
And Officer Chauvin’s life is ruined beyond repair. Even if he survives his unjustified term in prison, what will happen when he gets out? People will be afraid to associate with him or hire him. He will be a pariah. And he was a productive member of society, not a murderer.
No one every points this out because it would conflict with the white police racist, black guy good innocent victim narrative but the policeman who suggested using the maximum restraint technique on George Floyd was black. Why doesn’t the press every interview him? Hmmmm
Nicholas, for some reason this site is not letting me reply under you.
You said you make a distinction between those who were in favor of BLM with people who rioted, who made it political, etc. Are you moving the goal posts? Black people, whether naively in favor of BLM, or those criminals who rioted, doesn’t change the fact that blacks, disproportionately, support BLM. They blindly support it. Just like blacks blindly vote for anyone who is black on the ballot, whether or not those policies will hurt them. How about the blacks who didn’t riot, but who cheered it on from the comfort of their homes? You know the moderate blacks like the moderate Muslims, who don’t kill infidels, but support those who do. Did you separate them?
So, even after BLM has been exposed as the scam it is, you still have the majority of blacks who support it. That percentage coming down (if it really did) is irrelevant when you still have blacks supporting it disproportionate to their numbers.. The actual figure, according to the APA, is 83% of blacks in support of BLM. They advised support remains stable..
I’m sorry you were initially duped by BLM. I wasn’t. It was clear as day that the entire entity was based on the lie that white police prey on blacks, and kill them disproportionately to whites, and other groups. All the data suggest’s the opposite.
I explained to you that the source of the APA article, is a 2021 poll… Which was done by the Pew Research Center. The APA did not conduct this survey in 2022*. I haven’t been duped by the BLMs at all, I don’t judge what I don’t know. I did my research and found out what it really was. You have to take into account the high level of misinformation. If the media had done a real job of informing, many fewer people would have supported the BLMs. There has been a high level of propaganda, and political correctness has conditioned a lot of Americans. With a total lack of critical thinking, which comes from education. Adults, the older generation, have a great deal of responsibility at this level. The elders did not do their job. It is disconcerting and revolting. At the national level, at the university level, in the colleges, there has been no real information work to protect the youngest. And it’s been going on for decades.
And there is a difference between someone who answers yes to a poll, and someone who is in real political activity. Many answered yes, the vast majority did not participate in any real political action. it’s not central to their life, they don’t think about it every day when they get up in the morning. So I’m right in saying that ACTIVE members are only a very small fraction of the community. A lot of young people support that, they don’t even know what they’re talking about. It was up to the adults to enlighten them, and that was not done. We find ourselves with a whole section of the generations since the 1970s, politically and intellectually retarded. It’s frightening. With people who will turn a criminal into a hero. I’m not disempowering the elders, I’m just saying that a whole set of factors has caused this total aberration. And that Candace’s action must be supported; The truth must be faced.
*It is noted at the end of the article: “Source: Pew Research Center survey of U.S. adults, conducted Sept. 13–19, 2021.”
Here again the source of the poll APA is talking about : https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/09/27/support-for-black-lives-matter-declined-after-george-floyd-protests-but-has-remained-unchanged-since/
2021, not 2022.
Here for 2022 : https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2022/06/15/u-s-teens-are-more-likely-than-adults-to-support-the-black-lives-matter-movement/
“U.S. teens are more likely than adults to support the Black Lives Matter movement”
Declined to what? Blacks make up 13% of the population, but support BLM is over 65%.
Just because black teens or more than likely to support BLM doesn’t negate the fact black adults still support it disproportionate to their numbers.
If you actually read the study, it shows that support for BLM has declined overall, BUT not among blacks, who still strongly support it compared to other groups. Support has declined among whites, Hispanics and other groups. There is no significant decline among blacks.
That’s like saying there is a difference between a Muslim extremist who kills infidels, and those who don’t, but cheer on the Muslim extremist.
Doesn’t matter whether they are involved in political activity, or just some random black dude cheering on BLM. They support BLM in overwhelming numbers. Did you actually read what I wrote above? Or are you just disagreeing for the sake of disagreeing?
The black community supports BLM in overwhelming numbers even today.
“That’s like saying there is a difference between a Muslim extremist who kills infidels, and those who don’t, but cheer on the Muslim extremist.”
No, it has nothing to do, you’re talking to me about something very different. And it’s a subject that I know well. You put BLM and Islam on the same critical level, which has caused the death of hundreds of millions of people on earth… I invite you to be a little less barbaric in your way of reasoning, and to have finer interpretations.
It doesn’t matter whether it was the APA, Pew Center, or any poll or publication that put it out. The FACT is blacks, disproportionately, support BLM, as I’ve explained to you. You can attempt to dismiss it, or ignore, but that is a fact.
You attempted to present, that now that BLM has been exposed, black support has declined, as if it was a significant decline.
It’s not. The overwhelming majority of blacks support BLM.
“You attempted to present, that now that BLM has been exposed, black support has declined, as if it was a significant decline.”
I absolutely did not attempt to do this. It takes longer to change minds. I don’t have your barbaric way of reasoning. I make distinctions, it is necessary to detail the whole, there is a difference between supporting a little, from time to time, and supporting in an active way, being in a political action. And be in a political action and murder someone. If you can’t make that distinction, you have a problem. And unlike you, I don’t entirely trust the Pew Research Center polls and the way they’re done on this. It is necessary to take into account the question that have been asked. For the 2022 survey: “From what you’ve read and heard, how do you feel about the Black Lives Matter movement?”
What have they read, what have they heard? Exactly, precisely. We do not know anything. The poll says nothing about that.
In short, it’s all pretty vicious. In my opinion, this requires a greater investigation, a more serious study.
Another 2022 poll :
“Support for the Black Lives Matter movement is plummeting, including among African Americans, according to a new poll.”
“Some of the steepest declines in support for the movement were found among African American respondents. Their support for the movement’s goals dropped from 67 percent to 56 percent since last April, while support for the movement’s strategies and tactics want from 65 percent to 49 percent.”
https://www.newsweek.com/support-black-lives-matter-plummets-among-african-americans-poll-1708122
For anyone paying attention, the truth was always self evident that Floyd died of his own stupid choices:
1. Passing counterfeit $
2. Fentanyl
3. Resisting arrest
Perhaps had he cooperated, the police could have focused on getting him medical attention instead of wasting valuable time trying to convince the man to get in the back seat of the police car. While standing outside the car, he said he couldn’t breathe and was claustrophobic. The police assured him that they’d put the window down. He later freaked out and fell out of the opposite side of the car where he died.
The police officers were convicted before the facts were even clear by the media, politicians on the Left and Right, celebrities and ignorant citizens that knew even less about the situation. Just like Trayvon and Mike Brown. Mayhem ensued for nothing but lies and a false narrative.
If I recall correctly, in the generally unseen film of early parts of this encounter, an officer asked if he had “taken anything” (i.e., was he high on drugs). He said that he had not and the police left it at that. If they had “violated his civil rights” and administered Narcan, he might not have died. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes, as they used to say.
That’s an excellent point. Even if they say they haven’t been using drugs, the police should assume there is a possibility they are lying, and look for signs of an overdose that requires Narcan.
Nicholas, whether the polls showed support dropped to 50%, 40%, or whatever the latest poll shows, blacks make up 13% of the population. Their support is disproportionate to their numbers. In addition, there are differences with the way the polling questions are presented. As such strong support for BLM among blacks might have declined some, but still at high levels, and some support exists in high numbers. Are you able to make the distinction about percentage of the population and percentage of approval? Blacks make up 13% of the population, but according to your “data” support BLM around mid 50%. You are trying to tap dance around the irrefutable fact that blacks support BLM in numbers wildly disproportionate to their population support BLM in numbers disproportionate to their population numbers. Period.
My analogy with moderate Muslims and “moderate blacks” who support BLM is spot on. There are overwhelming numbers of blacks who support BLM and the rioting, even though they wouldn’t riot themselves. There are blacks that welcome whites being beaten although they wouldn’t participate in it themselves. By the same token, there are what we are told “moderate Muslims” who wouldn’t participate in killing an infidel, but they sure would be cheering from the sideline.
I welcome you to start to thinking in a more clear headed and honest way and stop trying to manipulate stats and data. It is what it is. Blacks, overwhelmingly, support BLM.
Let the BLM run for office, and you’ll see.
You have absolutely no in-depth study of those who support BLM in a poll, no in-depth investigation.
Take 1000 black people who have supported BLM in a survey, and show them Candace’s film, you will see who after the film will continue to support BLM.
Organize presidential elections with the BLM, and you’ll see how many votes they’ll get.
The BLM is a total fraud, it only represents themselves with their active member,s that is to say a tiny, tiny fraction of the American black population, and they have their useful idiots, who in the vast majority, , do not even know, exactly, what this organization is, apart from propaganda, and who have, in the vast majority, strictly never participated in a meeting, a debate, a demonstration, a riot.
What are you talking about ? All of this has been whipped up by the leftist media, and it’s going to come down very quickly, I hope so anyway, thanks to people like Candace.
We agree BLM is a fraud.
All the polling still shows overwhelming support for BLM with those in the black community.
Blacks make up 13% of the population. Can you show me any credible study, or poll that shows black support for BLM is under 13%? 13%-20%? 30%?
Support is still disproportionate. And I’m going off the data you cited.
You’re the one denying that BLM intellectual support in the black community is dwindling.
Here for 2022: “The BLM movement has seen a decrease in support across demographics according to a University of Massachusetts Amherst survey.”
“— Black Americans’ support for the Black Lives Matter movement is declining steeply, according to a poll conducted by YouGov, Newsweek reports. While the overall support for the movement’s goals decreased from 65 to 49 percent, African American respondents’ approval dropped from 67 percent to 56 percent since last April.
The poll of 1,000 people, conducted between May 5 and 9, found support for the movement’s goals had decreased from 48 percent to 31 percent.
Newsweek says that the University of Massachusetts Amherst survey, directed by associate professor of political science, Tatishe Nteta, said that Americans “may be growing tired of the Black Lives Matter movement.””
And you’re the one denying blacks support BLM disproportionate to their numbers. That’s the only thing that matters; not a slight decline in support. Using your numbers at 13% of the population they still support BLM 56%. You proved yourself wrong with your own numbers..
And the majority aren’t rioters or people with a political agenda that support BLM. The bilk is everyday black folks.
Nicholas, you’re trying to obfuscate the fact that blacks still strongly support BLM. Do blacks still overwhelmingly support a Democrat candidate? Oh wait, polling shows black support has declined for the Democrat Party. Even though we all know blacks support Democrats around 90%. You can’t play the shell game. See how that works. Stop being dishonest.
“Nicholas, you’re trying to obfuscate the fact that blacks still strongly support BLM”
Strongly support BLM…
Those who strongly support the BLM are the activists, in a political action, not those who answered a question in a poll… And who have strictly never demonstrated with the BLM, and who did not take part in the riots. which represents the vast majority.
The BLMs are going to lose more and more support from the black community, that’s what’s starting to happen..
If a majority of blacks want to vote for the Democratic Party, the United States is a free country. And I don’t put all Democrats in the same basket, and I don’t put all Democrats on the same critical level as the BLMs, etc, etc…
And the Democratic Party is also losing support from the black community.
That’s why I support Candace.
Nicholas, why are you trying so hard to not admit that blacks still overwhelmingly support BLM? Is the support declining? Some polling says yes, but even with a decline blacks, as a group, support BLM disproportionate to their numbers. It’s not even debatable. We can debate how much black support is waning in favor of BLM,but again, support is still disproportionate.
You don’t put all Democrats in the same basket? Oh boy. The party has been hijacked by evil far left totalitarians. There is no question about that. ALL the Democrats are in agreement on everything that is destroying the country. I thought we lived in a free country, but we don’t when we have rigged elections and the current president using the DOJ, FBI, IRS, etc, to silence, intimidate, imprison and ruin the lives of those who disagree with him and his party, but I guess that’s a debate for another time
Credit to Tulsi Gabbard for leaving the party. An extremely rare occurrence.
I think we have some common ground, Nicholas. Agreed that support is slowly declining for BLM among the black population, but still disproportionate in favor of it.
Here something that was done in october 2022 by the Pew Research Center :
Seven-in-ten U.S. teens express support for the Black Lives Matter movement, compared with 56% of adults.
“56% of adults.”
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2022/10/10/black-lives-matter-tops-list-of-groups-that-black-americans-see-as-helping-them-most-in-recent-years/ft_2022-10-10_blm_02/
Yes, blacks support BLM disproportionate to their numbers. We’ve established that since day 1.
“And you’re the one denying blacks support BLM disproportionate to their numbers. ”
But I don’t deny anything, read my comments.
1 – I look at the gap between the surveys, the polls, and the concrete reality: a tiny, tiny part of the community participates in the action organized by the BLMs (debate, meeting, conference, demonstration, riots), while the survey in 2021, for the highest data, affirms that 80% of the he whole community would have supported the BLMs at that time.
2 – I take into account the very, very high level of disinformation, and propaganda: what would be the percentage of blacks supporting the BLM without all this disinformation and propaganda at the national level (media, college, university, social environment). This data, we do not have it.
3 – I take into account the percentage of those who totally reject BLM within the black community, and this despite the very, very high misinformation and propaganda in 2021.
4 – I see a decline in 2022, in support, and this decline must be partly correlated with the fact that people are starting to tell the truth, despite still social pressure. This means that blacks are carrying out the imposture.
13% of black population and almost 60% support for BLM. Nuff said
I believe in divine punishment.
Do you know this song? It was David Horowitz who introduced me to it. I find it beautiful.
Good to you Rocco Barbella
Wildfire – Michael Martin Murphey : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HU-qoSAATfA
I am fascinated by human stupidity, in a scientific sense.
There is something fascinating in human stupidity.
Continue to celebrate your ignorance
Tell my friend David I said hi.
Then you either become a cynic or you become a Bible warrior.
13% of the population and 56% approval in the black community.
When you look at what is happening to America, either you become a cynic, but then, in that case, you put yourself on the level of Sam Peckinpah, or you do nothing. You don’t have any great American cynics anymore. America died of this, and of its loss of the poet, and above all of its estrangement from the Bible.
The Bible is the foundation of America and should remain so..
The Wild Bunch : A Symphony (Jerry Fielding – 1969) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2LhP61uSNw
The further America strays from the Bible, the more it will crumble.
You have to put the Bible back in the center.
There is no other possibility than this: put the Bible back in the center. And if you think there’s another possibility, you’re crazy.
At the anthropological, psychological, sociological level, nothing better than the Bible. It’s the top of the top.
Wish You Were Here : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjpF8ukSrvk
You have people in America today who believe that they can do things outside of the Bible, when what they do is in the Bible.
There is nothing you are going to do that is outside the Bible.
You believed one day maybe, that you were outside the Bible?
There’s nothing outside of the Bible;
My favorite, Beethoven – Symphony No. 7 – Iván Fischer | Concertgebouworkest /
Nicholas, I’m detecting possible mental health issues with you. ADHD? OCD? Did your parents constantly tell you that you were right, even when you were wrong? So, you grew up with a false sense of entitlement. You were one of the kids that never got picked for dodge ball, below average in sports, but always got a participation trophy to make you feel good about yourself?
Little advice from my old wrestling coach would do you good. “Sit down, shut your mouth, and open your ears. That’s how you learn.”
“Nicholas, I’m detecting possible mental health issues with you”
Before diagnosing a mental illness in someone, you must already perform a consultation with this person, and have studied psychiatry.
If you see mental illness in poetry and benevolence, you must be lost in your life.
The last time I went to see a psychiatrist, it was thirty years ago, he said to me: you are doing very well, find yourself a wife and start a family.
I’m doing well. Thanks.
Good for you and may God protect you.
Nicolas Carras
Your country is collapsing because it is moving away from the Bible.
It’s a mistake I didn’t make.
The great cynic warns you, he is not a nihilist. This is where Sam Peckinpah was a genius.
And it is on this question that he surpasses John Cassavetes, who is a nihilist.
Please seek help. It’s evident their are mental health issues with you.
God bless, brother.
And you will see that also with the first Dirty Harry, which is a film that warns of what is happening today.. And the character of the inspector Harry who has been called a fascist.
That is to say that there was a cinema in the 1970s, which warned.
Dirty Harry super soundtrack suite – Lalo Schifrin : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3IPLsDxMxQ
The Wild Bunch (7/10) Movie CLIP – Let’s Go (1969) HD
Rocco Barbella, your problem is that you don’t know who you’re talking to.
Danusha Goska is brilliant. I would bend the knee if in her presence.
What is between life and death?
Life.
Between life and death there is something.
Poetry.
Poesy maybe, but not deep. Personally, I don’t get it. Your poesy I mean.
“Poesy maybe, but not deep”
The purpose of poetry is not to be deep. But quite the opposite.
Poetry must always remain attached to triviality. And don’t go into depths
Poetry must always remain attached to triviality. And don’t go into depths.
Poetry must not enter the back worlds (depth). But must return to the world of triviality.
This is where poetry is poetic.
You didn’t understand what I posted. Poetry does not go into any depth, poetry must remain vulgar in its essence.
There is no depth. There is the world of reality. That’s all that interests me as a poet. I’m not deep, and I never tried to be.
Poetry has no depth, that’s what makes it interesting.
Why do you speak to me of depth, you are a “diver”
For Jamie.
Midnight Cowboy – Intro Scene – Everybody’s Talkin’. / https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CguIomEf2pE
It is precisely all the complexity of the poet, it is not to be deep.
To remain vulgar.
Poetry is inherently vulgar.
Just remember the George Floyd Memorial was destroyed by Lightning
the idea of making george floyd a hero is absurd