After that, it’s just £1 a week – saving more than 50% off the usual rate. Unlock a month’s worth of unlimited online and app access by subscribing today for free. BLM describes big charities as ‘colonisers’ And yet while Churchill was clearly no saint, is it fair to describe him – as BLM does on its Facebook page – as ‘staunchly racist’?ġ1. Without Churchill it seems all but certain that Britain would have lost the war to Nazi Germany. A progressive step? BLM UK doesn’t appear to be convinced: ‘Despite what you might’ve learned at school, many suffragettes were also working to advance White power,’ the organisation has tweeted.ġ0. Suffragettes ultimately secured the vote for women in Britain. So how did BLM react when she was tasked by the PM with setting up a commission on racial inequality? ‘This appointment is racist,’ BLM UK said. Mirza now heads up the No.10 policy unit. Mirza, a working-class northerner of Pakistani heritage, was the only pupil in her sixth form to win a place at Oxford.

Munira Mirza is something of a great British success story. BLM says the government appointment of a Pakistani heritage woman is ‘racist’ The group says it seeks to ‘develop’ and ‘deliver…strategies for the abolition of police’Ĩ. Yet BLM describes an uptick in what it calls ‘racist’ stop and search as ‘violence’. Stop and search is far from perfect but it is a key strategy for police to ensure that more black teenagers don’t have their lives cut short. This is the highest proportion since records began more than twenty years ago. Tragically, a quarter of those killed with a knife in Britain last year were black. Not having a job is miserable, but is it really ‘violence’? Yes, according to BLM UK. It seems likely that Britain’s 80,000 prisoners would approve, but do the thousands who have donated to BLM also back this policy? And what should happen to those convicted of violent crimes like murder if there are no prisons?īritain’s borders are ‘enforced by extreme violence,’ according to BLM UK, which proposes that open borders might be the answer.

‘Prisons and detention centres should be abolished,’ BLM UK has said. Why do we never talk about Islamic slavery? ‘Black people are the first to die, not the first to fly, in this racist climate crisis,’ it added. Why was ‘Black Lives Matter’ trying to stop people going on holiday? The answer: ‘Climate crisis is a racist crisis,’ the group said on its Twitter feed. It is unlikely he would fare as well without capitalism.īLM’s attempt to blockade Heathrow and London City airports in 2016 was greeted with widespread bemusement. De Bruyne is City’s top earner and is paid £350,000 a week. It might come as a particular surprise to Premier League footballers like Man City’s Kevin De Bruyne, whose shirt at Monday’s game against Burnley was emblazoned with the organisation’s slogan. This objective might come as a shock to many of those who have donated to the BLM cause. What then is that political work? Here are 11 things that BLM UK advocates that might make some supporters think twice about backing the organisation: So why won’t it? ‘A charity structure would not allow us the freedom and flexibility to do our political work in the ways we wish to do them,’ according to BLM UK. What’s more, the group is resisting calls for it to become one.

But what does the organisation ‘Black Lives Matter’ stand for? Worryingly, for the 34,000 Brits who have topped up BLM UK’s coffers with over £1million in recent weeks, finding out is no easy task.ĭespite being inundated with donations, BLM UK does not appear to have its own website and is not a registered charity. Anyone worth listening to agrees that black lives matter.

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