Black Lives Matter is dreaming of a black Christmas. The Marxist organization — which is well known for its over-the-top, race-baiting tactics — posted the “dream” to Instagram and a “BlackXMas” website. The gist of the plan is for “people of color” to boycott “white companies” until New Year’s Day, doing all of their holiday shopping at only “black-owned businesses.”
In a move clearly designed to drive the wedge of racial division ever deeper, BLM’s Instagram post says:
It’s officially #BlackXmas!
Time to:
#BuildBlack – Support Black-led-Black-serving organizations.
#BuyBlack – Skip the Black Friday sales and buy exclusively from Black-owned businesses.
#BankBlack – Move your money out of white-corporate banks that finance our oppression and open accounts with Black-owned banks.
White-supremacist-capitalism uses policing to protect profits and steal Black life…including the lives of #JohnCrawford, #StevenTaylor, #RedelJones, #YuvetteHenderson, #AlbertRamonDorsey, #DennisToddRogers & #SkyYoung.
Let’s use every tool in our toolbox…including our dollars…to end white-supremacist-capitalism.
For resources, go to blackxmas.org.
The idea is repeated and fleshed out on the BlackXmas website. The plan (such as it is) has one goal and three steps. The goal — as explained on the website — is to “divest from white corporations” and “invest in black communities.” The call to action? “If you must buy, buy black.”
The site encourages those who drink from the poisoned well of BLM’s Marxist ideology to “get involved in 3 easy steps” and lists those steps as “build black,” “buy black,” and “bank black.”
As is to be expected, the site overflows with vapid references to “White Capitalism” and “systemic racism.” Of course, no concrete examples are given — because none exist — but BLM has never let facts (or the lack thereof) get in the way of a bad narrative.
Evidence of BLM’s bad narrative is found in the Instagram post promoting #BlackXMas. All it takes is an Internet connection, a few minutes, and a dose of intellectual honesty to find that BLM’s litany of martyrs listed in the post is problematic, at best.
If — as BLM has been claiming for a decade — “racist” cops routinely murder black people for the crime of being black, one would expect a long list of victims. One might also reasonably expect that list to be filled to overflowing with clear examples of murder by racist cops. Instead, with vast sums of money and other resources at their disposal, BLM managed to come up with a list that contains seven names. And to put together a list even that short, BLM had to include shootings in at least five jurisdictions over a period of six years and include one shooting by a security guard. Of those shootings on the list that actually involved police officers, only the shooting of John Crawford could reasonably be questioned.
A prime example is Redel Jones. When Jones — who had just robbed a pharmacy at knife-point — was confronted by officers, she fled. When pursued, she produced the knife and lunged at one officer. She died at the scene as a result of the officer shooting her instead of allowing her to stab him. Even the Los Angeles Times was forced to get this one mostly right.
As for the others, Steven Taylor was armed with a baseball bat and acting as if he would swing it at an officer. Yuvette Henderson had just attempted to steal knives from a Home Depot store and produced a handgun to effect her escape from security guards when they called the police. She was pointing the gun at passers-by in an attempt to car-jack someone when she was shot and killed by police. Albert Ramon Dorsey refused to put on clothes and leave a fitness center where he was trespassing. When police arrived, he attacked them, straddled the female officer and repeatedly punched her in the face. Her partner shot him. Dennis Todd Rogers was shot by police in the parking lot of that same fitness center after he laid in wait for the manager, whom he had threatened. Police arrived and Rogers threatened them by swinging heavy hair trimmers at them by the cord. Officers attempted to back away, but he pursued one of them and when that officer ran out of room, he shot Rogers. Sky Young — whose real name was Jonathan Hart — appears to have been the victim of a poorly-trained armed security guard. Police were not involved in his shooting.
In fact, the only thing everyone on the list had in common is that that they were all black. And for that, they are all now patron saints of the Marxist BLM plan to cancel “whiteness,” “divest from white corporations,” and fight “white capitalism” by having a “BlackXMas.”
That BLM is racist against white people is a matter of fact substantiated by their own writing and speeches over the past decade. That they are race-baiting hustlers is a matter of fact substantiated by the millions of dollars BLM “leaders” spend on lavish lifestyles while capitalizing on the death of any black person killed by police, regardless of the facts in the case.
“BlackXMas” is simply more of the same. But this time, they are publicly attacking the economy of the country. If their plan succeeded, it would not make a huge dent in “white corporations.” In reality, the effect will be so small that the companies they are targeting won’t even notice.
