There is an important article about the Black Lives Matter movement here. It's by Richard Cohen, President of the Southern Poverty Law Center, at least one of the top two organizations monitoring the radical right, hate groups in general and some other extremists in America. This article should hopefully convince people skeptical of or hostile towards BLM that the movement is not anti-white. The thing is, the SPLC are saying this because the issues being raised by BLM are legitimate issues of racial injustice and inequality, and I believe that motivation triumphs over the positive relationship that the SPLC has with lots of police departments- that is, the SPLC cannot be written off as anti-cop, because, for better or worse, they overwhelmingly AREN'T anti-cop. But they are very much against hate and inequality.
UPDATE 3/1/20 The Anti-Defamation League also says fairly or very positive things about BLM.
Tom
UPDATE 7/19/16 I almost forgot to include something. There's an article about support in Ireland for BLM. It's here. Although I'm not half as familiar with it as I should be, Irishcentral seems pretty mainstream in Irish-america, which makes the part of the article about the protests in Ireland a pleasant surprise.
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My blog is about history, popular culture, politics and current events from a democratic socialist and Irish republican perspective. The two main topics are Northern Ireland on one hand and fighting anti-Semitism, racism and homophobia on the other. The third topic is supporting the Palestinians, and there are several minor topics. The three main topics overlap quite a bit. I have to admit that it’s not going to help me get a graduate degree, especially because it’s almost always written very casually. But there are some high-quality essays, some posts that come close to being high-quality essays, political reviews of Sci-Fi TV episodes (Star Trek and Babylon 5), and a unique kind of political, progressive poetry you won't find anywhere else. (there are also reviews of episodes of Law and Order: Special Victims Unit and reviews of Roseanne)
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