I keep telling you guys that I'm a pragmatic moderate independent. I've never been a democrat. The liberals I like are the pragmatic realists. The conservatives I like are the pragmatic realists. I have little use for radicals and extremists at either end of the picture and I have no use at all for impractical and idealistic demagogues anywhere. My views are all over the spectrum and I tend to vote for democrats and republicans who are leaning to the middle. But I don't see the Black Lives Matter thing as a political left-right issue. I see it as a social up-down issue. There are things that both liberals and conservatives could agree on if they did not consider each other enemies that must be confronted at all times. It's why more and more pragmatic, thinking people are identifying themselves as independent moderates. The Democrats and Republicans no longer represent us and a moderate third party cannot emerge unless they get weaker.
Pastor from California, Mark Whitlock was a guest preacher at my church yesterday, he also my fraternity brother and a very great man. He talked about this movement from the pulpit, saying that he was glad to see this generation get off their butts and do something and take up a cause, but he said if black lives matter, all lives should matter as well.
If it's the same person, I remember reading about him conducting some sermons about money management. I was impressed that someone from the venture capital world was encouraging the destruction of credit cards. Absolutely brilliant. Credit card companies are about as evil an entity as there is.
BLM is just the Black Panther's reincarnated. Their founders have ties to old Black Panther and Weather Underground members, their platform calls for Marxist reforms such as a guaranteed wage and housing, and the only difference is that now they can hide behind the race-card.
