Good thread, Cofty.
First, the killing of GF was completely unacceptable, and the offending officers are rightly facing serious charges.
I, too, have issues with BLM.
TBH, I don't think they actually care about black lives ... because they only protest and lose their shit when the attacker is white. Black-on-black killings are sky-high in the US (and in the UK, too, I think) but BLM don't say a word.
BLM talk about reparations for slavery (something that happened centuries ago in the US and UK) but have nothing to say of modern slavery - in Mauritania, slavery was abolished only in 2007. Mauritanian society is stratified based on race, with the lighter-skinned Arabs and Berbers at the top and sub-Saharan blacks at the bottom of society, domestic servitude, etc. There are black Mauritanians alive today who are former slaves.
There are slave markets in Libya this past few years. Some sub-Saharan Africans are allowed to travel to Europe, providing they pay the people smugglers a price; others are sold into slavery.
Again, BLM have nothing to say about these matters.
It's far easier to topple some statue of some long-dead whitey who profited from the transatlantic slave trade.
Well done to Candace Owens for speaking out.
That woman is a marvel.