I don’t know whether to LMAO or look ashamed at Tomi Lahren’s recent appearance on The Daily Show with new host, Trevor Noah. For those who don’t know, Lahren, the far-right conservative news host, has her own online show, Tomi, found on TheBlaze. On the show, she discusses her disgust for just about anything liberal going on in America. From Beyoncé’s Black Panther-inspired performance at Super Bowl 50 to San Francisco QB Colin Kaepernick’s kneel protest of the US national anthem, no movement or stand is safe from her scrutiny. In current news, she’s even criticized the nationwide protests of controversial US President-Elect Donald Trump as “a bunch of sore losers gathered together” saying that it “isn’t a protest, it’s a tantrum.”And while she tries to fact check everyone and everything on every day, I would love to dismantle a claim she made this past summer that Black Lives Matters Movement is the new Ku Klux Klan. Shall we begin?
1) The Black Lives Matters Movement has never issued deadly threats to those who
oppose them. No burning crosses were staked in people’s yards nor were any lynch
mobs congregating to apprehend those who voted for Trump. As for the rioting &
looting, the crowds attracted by these actions are often drawn by the allure of violence
and not necessarily the message behind them.
2) The Ku Klux Klan had to use code names to inform other members of their
affiliation with the organization. To hide their daily identities as the local police
officers, judges, doctors, and other occupations, monikers such as “imperial wizard”
and “grand dragon” were assigned. The reasoning for this was to cloak those who were
too embarrassed to unmask themselves as Klan members to their own community. This
showed the cowardice of anonymity of the organization’s members.
3) Black Lives Matters can’t seem to catch a break from newspapers portraying
their fight for equality and justice as ruthless “nonsense.” Picket, march, kneel, sit,
stand. No method of protest the movement utilizes is seen as progress by news outlets.
However, a Klan march in North Carolina in early December celebrating Trump’s win
is surely welcoming to “the good Southern state?” Stay tuned for more coverage!
4) BLM was created to address and combat (in a peaceful way) the racial injustice
that after centuries is still plaguing the black race. Following the injustice in the
case of Trayvon Martin in 2012, his wrongful death served as a catalyst to starting this
movement. The KKK was started by six bored white men who decided that after the
Civil War, they’d start a social club that goes around town in ghostly costumes to inflict
fear into the lives of newly freed black citizens.
5) The KKK conducted nighttime raids in which they searched for teachers who had
traveled to the south to teach black children who were eager to learn. In addition,
they criticized educated blacks by referring to them as “uppity” or whipped them
for “talking big.” The Klan discouraged blacks from being educating or educating
themselves, exercising their right to vote, and having upward mobility within American
society. Black Lives Matter does the opposite of that knowing how that type of
psychological, physical, and mental fear affect us today. It’s just that the hooded cloaks
and lynch ropes have been traded in for badged suits and firearms.
