Wow the thread has gone out of the orbit it terms of sticking to the topic.
A few things;
-I back BLM, to go into the reasons will take too long, but one is racial solidarity.
-The movement sadly has many idiots who call for the most extreme things e.g. defunding the police, what! I'm beginning to see many fringe groups now influencing the direction of events e.g. communists, anarchists, LGBTQ and so on.
-Many people are there just for a fad, phase, to look cool and so on. A fair few of these folks are white liberals who are actually part of the problem, again to go into will take too long, but I'll explain one point e.g. they're not there for the long haul. Once they settle into their cosy lives in the mid-30's they forget everything, and heck even enforce the glass ceiling that prevents minorities rising.
-The UK perspective is unique and different to what is going on in the USA. First regarding everyone teaming up on us and joining the EDL. Black folks never joined the EDL in any viable number;
Bolton 1,500
Dudley 'super mosque' demo, 3,000.
Luton, 1,600.
Ok Blacks don't live as much in these areas some may say, let's try London then;
Walthamstow
Tower Hamlets.
How many black folks do you see? Not one, among those large group shots.
The black division was a joke, much derided by black people themselves.
Here is a photo, most are white! All they could muster was three stooges, and they to were never seen again!
Yes we had some Sikhs and Hindus join, but again the number were tiny. The HSS, a British arm of the RSS Hindu right in India actually turned down an alliance with the EDL lol! That's not to say they did for the Muslim community here only, although that did play a part i.e. communal tensions would increase, but because they experienced years of '**** bashing' at the hand of them and their forefathers as well.
They were seen by and large as a bigoted, racist outfit by minorities.
Now some of my brothers have wrote points down for example the black community did not come out in force against the EDL back in the days. They are right, we were by ourselves. I put it down to a mix of things such as indifference, they didn't know much about it, it wasn't portrayed well by us in terms of racial solidarity and it just wasn't their fight.
This began to change with the arrival of large numbers of West African Muslims from Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Ghana and Gambia. Now add the significant Somali community, we now had quite a potent force of young black men who were willing to 'throw down' to back their co-religionists. So now non-Muslim black folk began to take notice, and things started to change.
-The movement needs to go beyond police brutality and start to tackle the issue of black on black crime. Look at the numbers of lives lost there. In terms of statistics black males are far more likely to die at the hands of another black male than anyone else! I lost count the number of times young black boys telling me that they felt more comfortable and at ease around other races, but had their guard up when encountering unfamiliar young black youth.
-Let's get things back to the traditional black family units we saw in the 50's, 60's and 70's. Supportive fathers, strong intergenerational families, children doing well at school. Again BLM needs to lead on this.
The bottom line is once the internal issues are sorted out, the community will then see much of the problems that plague it solved.
I don't want to offend anyone but these are my thoughts. I fought racists in brutal street fights in my life, I've taught generations of young black men and I've lived and breathed the most appalling racism myself. I hope that makes me somewhat qualified to discuss this topic.