Why Martin Luther King Jr. Would be Ashamed of the Black Lives Matter Movement

Clearly Con has failed to understand the entire basis of my argument. I understand the history of the Civil Rights movement. As for the "Black Lives Matter" movement, I am not the one who has misinterpreted the initial basis for the movement; it is the supporters of the movement who have misinterpreted its fight, supports such as Beyonce who have turned what started out as a legitimate fight for freedom into a "we"re better than them" argument. If you take a look at my previous statement, I said: The term "Black Lives Matter" promote a segregated outlook on general violence in a community; separating "black lives" from "all lives" creates a widely accepted belief that many of the supports believe that when it comes to violence, it only matters when it is against a black person. I RECOGNIZE THAT THIS WAS NOT THE GOAL OF THE GROUP; however the ideology has been greatly twisted and warp largely in part to the biased media representation and the lack of want to explain what the group stands for to the general population. Promoting an "All Lives Matter" fight is not a way of ignoring the issues of race and racism in our society it is a way to prevent any further division amoung the races. The real issue is the willful ignorance of the black community to ignore where the real problem lies: in their own homes. Black people in the United States are more likely to be victims of violent confrontations with police officers than whites because they commit more violent crimes than whites per capita. " FACT: Despite making up just 13% of the population, blacks commit around half of homicides in the United States. DOJ statistics show that between 1980 and 2008, blacks committed 52% of homicides, compared to 45% of homicides committed by whites. More up to date FBI statistics tell a similar story. In 2013, black criminals carried out 38% of murders, compared to 31.1% for whites, again despite the fact that there are five times more white people in the U.S. " FACT: From 2011 to 2013, 38.5 per cent of people arrested for murder, manslaughter, rape, robbery, and aggravated assault were black. This figure is three times higher than the 13% black population figure. When you account for the fact that black males aged 15-34, who account for around 3% of the population, are responsible for the vast majority of these crimes, the figures are even more staggering. " FACT: Despite the fact that black people commit an equal or greater number of violent crimes than whites, whites is almost TWICE as likely to be killed by police officers. According to data from the Centers for Disease Control, between 1999 and 2011, 2,151 whites died as a result of being shot by police compared to 1,130 blacks. " FACT: Despite being outnumbered by whites five to one, blacks commit eight times more crimes against whites than vice-versa, according to FBI statistics from 2007. A black male is 40 times as likely to assault a white person as the reverse. These figures also show that interracial rape is almost exclusively black on white. "Even allowing for the existence of discrimination in the criminal justice system, the higher rates of crime among black Americans cannot be denied," wrote James Q. Wilson and Richard Herrnstein in their widely cited 1985 study, "Crime and Human Nature." "Every study of crime using official data shows blacks to be over-represented among persons arrested, convicted, and imprisoned for street crimes." Poverty does not drive a person to become a criminal, poor choices drive someone to become a criminal. Stealing food to feed your family is not the same thing as stealing cigarillos from a convenience store and physically assaulting the store operator when they try to stop you which is what we saw in the Michael Brown case. To claim that black people who commit crimes are wrongfully incarcerated because they had a rough past of being brought up in a poor community is a poor excuse. I have known poverty for more than half my life and yet it has not driven me to commit an act of violence against someone else. And although poorer communities have statistically poor educational institutes, it still does not provide an excuse to be poorly educated. We live in the most technologically advanced age with the most access to free information through the use of personal or public internet access which can be found nearly anywhere: there is nothing holding someone back who wants to break the cycle of poverty from doing their best to make sure that they are educated and prepared for the real world but themselves. It"s true that while when it comes to the average white American they make more money than the average black American, but these statistics do not include celebrities, a large group of which are black athletes that make hundreds of millions of dollars by playing a sport. As for the statistics presented below in concern with job applications, this is an utterly false statement presented by a biased liberal media. First of all there is a federal law that strictly forbids employers to allow this kind of discrimination: "The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is responsible for enforcing federal laws that make it illegal to discriminate against a job applicant or an employee because of the person's race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age (40 or older), disability or genetic information. It is also illegal to discriminate against a person because the person complained about discrimination, filed a charge of discrimination, or participated in an employment discrimination investigation or lawsuit. Most employers with at least 15 employees are covered by EEOC laws (20 employees in age discrimination cases). Most labor unions and employment agencies are also covered. The laws apply to all types of work situations, including hiring, firing, promotions, harassment, training, wages, and benefits." As far as my "sanitized" version of Dr. King, I am not sure where you are getting your quotes because I got mine from his official biography. As far as the quote you used, you have taken it out of context by not completing the statement made by Dr. King which goes on to say that "although King was hesitant to criticize Black Power openly, he told his staff on 14 November 1966 that Black Power ""was born from the wombs of despair and disappointment. Black Power is a cry of pain. It is in fact a reaction to the failure of White Power to deliver the promises and to do it in a hurry." The cry of Black Power is really a cry of hurt"" (King, 14 November 1966). As the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and other civil rights organizations rejected SNCC and CORE"s adoption of Black Power, the movement became fractured. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Black Power became the rallying call of black nationalists and revolutionary armed movements like the Black Panther Party, and King"s interpretation of the slogan faded into obscurity." Malcolm and Dr. King greatly criticized each others work but avoided public confrontation so as to not distract the population from the real issue which was Civil Rights. "Despite his repeated overtures to King, Malcolm did not refrain from criticizing him publicly. "The only revolution based on loving your enemy," Malcolm told an audience in 1963, "is the Negro revolution"That"s no revolution" (Malcolm X, "Message to the Grass Roots," 9)." As far as Con is concerned, he has pulled his so-called "statistics" from several unreliable and unbiased sources. While most media outlets are biased especially when it comes to politics, it"s not an effective way to argue by using these as a sole base for your information. Personally, I wouldn't solely base my references on these, but rather back them up with UN-opinionated official sites that show statistics in a non-biased way. CNN and YouTube are not reliable sources of information and the BBC is a British network that cannot accurately given an account of on-goings in the United States. http://www.amren.com... http://www.infowars.com... http://www.eeoc.gov... http://kingencyclopedia.stanford.edu... http://kingencyclopedia.stanford.edu...