The "About BLM" reads like pure politician speak; vague, non-commital to anything tangible, just a load of rousing, pleasant sounding platitudes.
One of the many buzzwords I hear black activists use is "organise". (
Three Black Youth Activists on Organizing, Educating, and the Change They Hope to See) But what for? I see they can competantly organise in a 'movement' to point the finger, to make demands of others, and stomp around in militant outfits. Are they applying this organisation inwardly, with the "black community", and as the man Denzel said their own home?
One of the more curious of BLM's beliefs was the idea of challenging the family unit and replacing it with some kind of shared communal parenting of children within their communities. Presumably this was a response to the aforementioned issue of broken homes and absent fathers. But rather than recognise this issue as a problem it reads as though the traditional family unit is the problem, or at least is not necessary, as though collective parenting by extended family and "the village" is actually preferable.
Four years ago, what is now known as the Black Lives Matter Global Network began to organize. It started out as a chapter-based, member-led organization whose mission was to build local power and to intervene when violence was?
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To be charitable this could be an attempt to not shame seperated patents who tried their best, and be inclusive of same sex couples, but it does seem to think you can have your cake and eat it, and actively discourage traditional co-parenting of a consistently present farther and mother.
This is important because the values passed down from respected role models help shape the decisions made by children. It has been argued that children engage in crime and especially violent crime to gain status and recognition among their peers, and they do not share or respect the values of a class they don't recognise as being part of. Not only are they more likely to get in legal trouble at an early age but this will likely compromise their education and future socioeconomic prospects, "too cool for school" basically.
Research shows that peer status in adolescence is positively associated with school achievement and adjustment. However, subculture theories of juvenile delinquency and school-based ethnographies suggest that (1) disadvantaged boys are often able to gain ...
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It's by no means a concern exclusive to ethnic minorities, far from it infact, it affects kids of all races. But I don't see how BLM's vision of raising their children this way will improve matters, and if it doesn't will they still blame systemic systems of structured oppression for locking up the children they failed to adequately parent?
If a specific community actively advocates a substandard method of parenting and family structure, should we really be surprised if the next generation of that community ends up disproportionately disadvantaged and on the wrong end of the policing and legal system?