deanlogic, I have to agree with you. jamell, I personally don't believe that any organization that resorts to violence and murder have anything to say worth listening to - whether they are "calm" at the moment or not. If there were anything socially valuable to hear from these people, they wouldn't need violence to disseminate it.

I would be much more comfortable with the slogan "Our Lives Matter" rather than theirs; at least this is someone anybody could agree with. Their actual slogan doesn't mean that "black" lives matter, it means "No One Else's life matters" otherwise they wouldn't be triggered by the obvious, self-evident truth that All lives matter. If they really were interested in saving black lives, they'd be looking into black on black murder rates in the inner cities, where the real problem lies.

Their tactics are no different than the Nazi Brown Shirts, the Fascist Black Shirts or any other organization trying to force their will upon the rest of a population. History has shown us that it ALWAYS ends badly - not necessarily for the organizers, but for their "useful idiots" who are mowed down in the streets for someone else's "cause".