Woah! Strong final words. If those were directed at William_Mary (as they appear to be) then I think you should apologise. We will get nowhere being so aggressive to one another. I see such behaviour in comments on Facebook and I find it highly offputting and depressing that people can be so aggressive. I have friends of a colour other than mine but I know that I am easily more attracted physically to those who are similar to me but that includes level of education and intelligence. it is not simply colour. I prefer freckles. and red hair, yet my wives have been very dark.

@Willow_Wisp I did not mention BLM. Preferring one's own kind is very much instinctual and part of our genetic heritage. Thinking one's own kind is better is quite different. I do not think anyone is superior as a human to anyone else. I prefer however to be close to people who do not love fighting. My perception of you Willow_Wisp is that you are filled with anger and love fighting so I'd not choose to be in company with you. Often I am asked if I have allergies and I always answer "aggressive people".

@rogerbenham Then William_Mary was a bad choice to defend, he's the one that brought it up by quoting that demandable bit of propaganda and then posting it like an idiot. Then you, YOU defended him.

@Willow_Wisp No, I protested a vitriolic personal attack. Calling names never solve a dispute. William_Mary and I actually fundamentally disagree on many things. He is far more conservative than I am. What we do agree upon is that the people of the USA are it seems willfully ignorant that they are being duped by both the Republicans and the Democrats into believing that either party serves the people when in fact both serve the banks, corporations and millionaires/billionaires who finance them. He is a trucker. I am from the elite. We come from very different worlds.
I have seen people resort to name calling and be removed from groups. I have seen people leave groups because of opinion differences. I'm sure you could have written a small essay retort without resorting to name calling. In Canada we don't draw our guns first. I am a west coast hippie and we have always advocated love.

@rogerbenham That's who she is. She did it to me too. People like her ignore the substance of an argument and automatically assume and attack because you don't praise their candidates or agree 100% with them on their opinions. Then when you present them with undisputable facts they start the assumptions and name calling again.

What Teodrose Fikremariam is attempting to communicate to people is that BLM is being suppressed by establishment politicians and the media. And that their (BLM) main association to rely on, especially the democratic party, for potential help towards their cause is a futile relationship due to the history of all 3. Further more, when a millionaire and or NGO entities become part of the issue it almost always tends to lead to further suppression where the founders or heads of such type of groups become reliant on funding and controlled within the nature of their delivery of their dissent against the system or a cause.

You can find this aspect to many past dissenting groups, such as the top environmental groups who now take money from corporations in which their groups cause confronted due to their harm to the environment. The Sierra Club is one I did a post on some time ago for an example. When journalist dig deep enough into their tax records it's found that these corporations are largely funding these groups, and often through back door NGO groups in efforts to hide the relationship. This is why we get such little process in many areas of our social concerns we're lead to believe these groups are attempting to confront. Basically the founders and CEO's are being bought out and suppressed on one side and collaborate with politicians on the other. It's a win win for the establishment political system and the corporations to stifle any real sense of change. While the group is allowed to continue to publicly play a controlled role within a compliant manor.

While I agree with Teodrose Fikremariam 100%, I'll also mention I've had knowledge of this type of group suppression long before he came onto the scene around 2016. And I began to notice this effect on BLM shortly after they came out of the gate when it became a movement. The first thing the political establishment does with such a socially strong issue that would impose such dissent on society is to get a grip on it. And that they have done and the media was the main tool to do it with. Along with buy out the leaders if possible using the very wealthy entities that bought them out. Now you can attack me all you want, this time. But in attacking me for passing along information that isn't by any means new news to informed people like myself and many in this group, you also attack him and his history that lead him to this point. Which only tells me of your ignorance to who he is and his plight in life to reach his points of view. In which I have offered at least twice now on posting his articles here an opportunity recently to discover just that. If anyone has a right to weigh his views on BLM and racism it's Teodrose Fikremariam without having such an attack being placed on him. Quite frankly, you just made the ultimate mistake in delivering the most non relative and non useful commentary out of total ignorance anyone could make by not using information provided to develop an intellectual opinion on. Teodrose Fikremariam as a black man has more right and time living within the racist nature of humanity and many articles written on it that deserve your attention before you can even begin to place a label as such on him. I'll suggest once again you use the link at the end of the initial post to use his wisdom to your benefit to which we can build an intellectual conversation over if you have deferring opinions later.

I will not tolerate such incoherent behavior in this group or attacks on my members due to systemic rhetoric in the future. Please use the information provided and then produce a meaningful means of intellectual discourse we can use towards weighing opinions with each other if you don't agree or seek understanding.

@rogerbenham conservative!?! Why do you want to pour rocket fuel on this fire!?! That's to funny!