The killing of George Floyd has re-ignited fury over the treatment of black people across the world.
And it has been instrumental in raising millions for Black Lives Matter.
George’s killing has also sparked incendiary street protests, deadly shootings and the tearing down of the parts of our history that glorify slavery.
But is the Killing of George in fact the new battle-cry for racial equality?
Or is it a frightening new age of anarchy played out against the coughing and sniffing of Covid.
Do we actually have a deadly epidemic of fear?
Lost empires have always been ravaged by hoards of locust-like anarchists chomping on the flaccid under-belly of a failed society.
Destruction described as building for change, like ripping down Victorian warehouses in Manchester and replacing them with plastic hutches.
Black Lives Matter, as a battle cry, in fact existed long before the Two Blondes of Dystopia launched bombshell after bombshell.
BLM was founded by communities for good. But immediately drew bad publicity when one of the three co-founders said blithely in 2015 that she and another co-founder “are trained Marxists”.
What’s a trained Marxist? A svelte and ripped bloke with a beard, knowledgable eye and a floppy hat?
Still, Black Lives Matter has grown into a national anti-racism movement supported by millions of Americans.
And BLM has also become a cash cow for black political activism… much of the money coming from white people who are quite rightly desperate to wipe out racism finally and forever.
Money has come in so fast that some groups are reported to have turned fortunes away. But sadly fewer and fewer people have money to throw at ideals.
Social media has continued blistering and burning with fake news supported by the madness of King Donald and the wobbling of Humpty Dumpty Boris perched on his wall of uncertainty.
The pandemic has destabilised ordinary lives, rocked businesses, commerce, politics and hopes and dreams.
And now people are looking for somebody blame.
As far as Covid is concerned the blame is aimed predictably – but scatalogically – at China.
As far as anarchy is concerned, it is black people on the streets of Henderson and other small-towns where racism is a way of life.
It is also of course the French and the refugees washing up on the White Cliffs of the UK.
But back to the money.
Black Lives Matter is not a charity and says that all the money it has been showered with will go towards changes in the law, developing and distributing educational resources and healing black communities.
And that is a good thing.
But the killing of George has created an intensity of heckling and hate not seen since since the 1950s and 60s.
Boris Johnson has stood up for black communities by saying “there is a feeling that people from black and minority ethnic groups do face discrimination: in education, in employment, in the application of the criminal law.
“And we who lead and who govern simply can’t ignore those feelings because in too many cases, I am afraid, they will be founded on a cold reality.”
However, disingenuously, Simon Woolley, the director of Operation Black Vote and chair of the Downing Street race disparity unit advisory group, said: “Whilst an acknowledgement of racism within our society is to be welcomed, the real deal is having a plan to effectively deal with it – and that was missing.”
So, with statements like this – and the untold millions in the coffers of BLM – why can’t we all get together, socially distanced of course, wipe our noses and put our cash and cards on the table and work something out?
Don’t forget what racism is – it’s a brain-dead act. It treats another person differently because their skin colour is not the same as ours, they speak a different language and have different religious beliefs.
Racism is about the most heinous pointless, clod-hopping, backwards-baseball cap-wearing, tattooed thuggery in the world.
And countries go to war over it.
In recognition of racism’s awfulness, Oxford’s Oriel College decided to take down the statue of Cecil Rhodes, a British imperialist accused of laying the foundations of apartheid in South Africa.
In Australia, where the hashtag #aboriginallivesmatter is trending, the focus of protests has been on the treatment of an indigenous population subjected to mass killings, eviction and incarceration since the 18th century when white settlers landed there.
In Poland there were talks about the use of Murzyn, a term for black people that has its roots in the same word as the English “moor”. Poles generally consider neutral while others regard it as offensive.
All this is good and should be capitalised on …
But Black Lives Matter UK put this on their GoFundMe page:
“We’re guided by a commitment to dismantle imperialism, capitalism, white-supremacy, patriarchy and the state structures that disproportionately harm black people in Britain and around the world. We build deep relationships across the diaspora and strategise to challenge the rise of the authoritarian right-wing across the world, from Brazil to Britain.”
So,, it is true then. We are living in a world of new anarchy but nobody seems to be able to affect change.
So, the anarchistic failure of our own government, the anarchy of King Donald and his hatred, to the beer-swilling kebab-eating drongo throwing empty beer cans in to his UK beer garden and to the anarchy of the gun-totting dystopian killer stalking middle-mad America, all say we need to change.
All of us!
But the wheels of the BLM are already starting to get stuck in the mire of doubt and suspicion they have created with their money and wild claims.
At first politicians were eager to be photographed ‘taking the knee’ in solidarity. Now they’re desperate to distance themselves from what the movement is demanding.
And these things are things like moving funds away from policing and into mental health services and youth work to kill off crime.
In June 13, 2020, Black Lives Matter (BLM) activists gathered in London’s Trafalgar Square to call for the eradication of racism and white supremacy. With their fists raised high, the activists chanted “Black power”
It really could have been a scene straight from the 1960s.
Activists around the world in the 60s connected their own struggles to those of African Americans who challenged segregation, disenfranchisement, poverty, and police brutality.
But nothing really happened and look at us now, almost a century later.
Many tend to think of that era’s push for civil rights and Black power as a distinctly American phenomenon.
But it was a global movement—and so is BLM today.
Although much has changed since the 1960s, racism continues to shape every aspect of Black life in the United States.
The pattern of police killings of unarmed Black Americans has created today’s uprisings – and anarchistic opportunism – but these problems are not only within the borders of the United States.
They are the global anarchy of the police.
BLM was launched seven years ago by activists Patrisse Cullors, Alicia Garza, and Opal Tometi after the acquittal on murder charges of the man who killed Trayvon Martin, a 17-year-old African American boy from Florida.
Following the 2014 police shooting of another Black teenager, Michael Brown, in Ferguson, Missouri, BLM evolved into a nationwide and global protest movement.
In a matter of months, activists had established BLM chapters in several major cities outside the United States.
In Toronto, for example following the police killing of Jermaine Carby, a 33-year-old Black man in Brampton, Ontario.
A few months later, a group in Japan launched an Afro-Asian solidarity march called “Tokyo for Ferguson”.
And in the following months, BLM demonstrations swept cities across Europe, including Amsterdam, Berlin, London, and Paris.
Why can’t we all … governments, BLM, people on the streets… finally draw this centuries-old battle-wagon to the side of these sickly streets and tell the world that we all matter, everybody from China to Calais, the Black Hills of Dakota to the White Cliffs of Dover.
And from Romania to Rochdale.
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