There is a massive disconnect between how ordinary British people view the recent Black Lives Matter demonstrations and how they were viewed by the BBC, Sky Sports and other parts of the media. Once more journalism is missing the mood of the country.
Most British people think that everyone’s life matters no more but no less than anyone else’s. We believe in fairness. We don’t like to single out one group for better or worse treatment. It was this that made the slogan “Black Lives Matter” jar. It doesn’t need to be said that black lives matter, of course they do, but saying it repeatedly while denying the right of any other group to say it suggests that the campaigners are not looking for fairness and equality, but rather for something else.
Journalists treated the demonstrations uncritically and as something wholly praiseworthy, but from the beginning the rest of us could see that something was wrong. Anyone who has studied American history and the theory of race that has developed in American universities could grasp instantly that the organisation “Black Lives Matter” was extremist. It’s not as if they hid their aims. Here were Marxist revolutionaries who hate the United States, its flag and everything it stands for. Here were people who refuse to stand while the Star-Spangled Banner plays, not because they wanted equality of opportunity but because they want to divide in order to destroy capitalism. Here were people who hate Israel and would delight in its destruction delighting too in the destruction of British heritage and history as a form of revenge on the rest of us living here. Here were people whooping for joy as the hated police and a whole league of footballers went down on one knee to them. They had power and they were enjoying it.
I said to one of them the other day that in order to have real political change it was necessary to unite rather than divide. Black Lives Matter would fail because it was unable to bring the rest of us with it. Ordinary Brits saw it as an attack on us, because it was. This is why it would lose. This is why it has already lost.
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