Keir’s Reviews > BLM: The Making of a New Marxist Revolution > Status Update

Garza [leader of BLM] found her next home, when she was hired to organize opposition to building a Walmart in Oakland. …"She didn't care that poor black residents actually wanted the Walmart, nor that the local labor council supported the new store, which did open." This is something we find again and again with leftist leaders who say they are fighting for the people but disdain the people's actual choices.

If your town or city has formed an "Anti-Racism Ad Hoc Committee" that will undertake witch hunts for any civic activity…that some intrusive neighborhood martinet can denounce as racist, that is because of BLM. If your priest, minister, or rabbi ruins your weekend by lecturing you on social justice and white privilege, that is because of BLM... It now has a Political Action Committee to influence whom we elect…

Meanwhile, the white Weathermen pledged to set up a clandestine, revolutionary movement, akin to the Red Guard in China, “with the full willingness to participate in the violent and illegal struggle.” Again, as in the Port Huron Statement, the struggle of blacks for civil rights and acceptance in mainstream America seemed to matter little to the Weathermen except as a prop to achieve world revolution.

“The BLA was the lethal, underground branch of something larger called the Black Liberation Movement. That BLM's initials are the same as those of the Black Liberation Movement has not escaped leaders like Alicia Garza, and she likes to gamely repeat “BLM, BLM." It is noteworthy that Garza, Cullors, and Tometi draw inspiration from these toxic splinters of the Black Panther Party.”

“Soon, the "We Shall Overcome" chants by King's followers were themselves overcome by the mock chants of "We Shall Overrun" led by Carmichael's SNCC's militants.”