Phony ‘Black Lives Matter’ Protesters

August 13, 2015

If the people who have been barging in on presidential campaign events to scream “Black Lives Matter!” really cared about black lives, they would not do this in front of an elderly, mumbling socialist like Bernie Sanders, but on the streets of Baltimore and other cities where black-on-black homicides are skyrocketing.  For example, according to Baltimore crime statistics, of the latest 100 murders, 89 of the victims were black, with the majority of the rest listed as “race unknown.”  It’s safe to assume that these were probably all black-on-black murders, since the media typically explodes whenever there is a white-on-black homicide.  They would be calling for an end to the war on drugs, the root cause of all this violence, if they were really concerned about black lives in the inner cities.

Instead, the “protesters” are striving to remind us, ad nauseam, of the cultural Marxist mantra that all white heterosexual males are racists and “oppressors” and the beneficiaries of  “white privilege.”  They are surely not so stupid and dense as to believe that Bernie Sanders and Jeb Bush (whose campaign rallies they interrupted) actually believe that black lives do not matter.

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Dr. Thomas DiLorenzo [send him mail] is president of the Mises Institute. He is a former professor of economics at Loyola University Maryland and a longtime member of the senior faculty of the Mises Institute. He is the author or co-author of eighteen books including The Real LincolnHow Capitalism Saved AmericaLincoln UnmaskedHamilton's CurseOrganized Crime: The Unvarnished Truth About GovernmentThe Problem with Socialism; and The Politically-Incorrect Guide to Economics