Black Lives Matter Cancels Anti-Poverty Billboards in Poor Neighborhoods

[Victoria33]

Black Lives Matter Cancels Anti-Poverty Billboards in Poor Neighborhoods – Black Community News

Black Lives Matter Cancels Anti-Poverty Billboards in Poor Neighborhoods​

Star Parker and her panel of guests on her show, Cure America, discussed how the Black Lives Matter movement shut down her “Success Sequence” billboard campaign.

The billboards read: “Tired of Poverty? Finish school. Take any job. Get married. Save and invest. Give back to your neighborhood.”

 

[Regular_Atheist]

It’s a very stupid and patronising billboard. I can see why locals might want it taken down. I certainly wouldn’t want to have to see such lecturing from the idle middle class whenever I go down the street.

This woman works for a “Think Tank.” Maybe she should get a job.

 

[Roselle]

I guess BLM is against marriage and males from what I’ve read. I wish BLM too was for school excellence and were happy with the success charter schools have seen in black and latino Americans neighborhoods. A quality education can help with lowering poverty levels. That hasn’t been the case though. Walter Williams wrote some on this topic ~

“Charter Schools and Their Enemies”

Charter Schools and Their Enemies – Walter E. Williams

 

[ThinkingSapien]

It’s a very stupid and patronising billboard.

It kind of reminds me of the “Learn to Code” messages that were used to harass journalist that lost their jobs.

I guess BLM is against marriage and males from what I’ve read.

Are you talking about the BLM movement or BLM organization? Or people in the movement?

The organization doesn’t mention marriage in its statements of its position.

https://blacklivesmatter.com/what-we-believe/

For the movement, people have individual positions on a variety of issues.

I watched the video at the link and it is only alleged that “the BLM mindset was offended.” But it shared nothing that showed why the removal was being attributed to either the movement or the organization. There have been critics of “The Success Sequence” since well before these billboards were put up.

 

[Victoria33]

It’s a very stupid and patronising billboard. I can see why locals might want it taken down. I certainly wouldn’t want to have to see such lecturing from the idle middle class whenever I go down the street.

This woman works for a “Think Tank.” Maybe she should get a job.

It’s a lot better alternative than violence.

I think everyone is told to stay in school but now, that’s a patronizing comment. Wow.

 

[27lw]

Shh - - those billboards share the secret of “white privilege”! Don’t tell anyone!

 

[Dr_Meinheimer]

This woman works for a “Think Tank.” Maybe she should get a job.

Couldn’t you make that argument for anyone who “works” for BLM?

 

[Regular_Atheist]

Couldn’t you make that argument for anyone who “works” for BLM?

Absolutely. They’re both doing the same thing, just from opposite ends of the political spectrum. They both represent the same class interests, hence why they both essentially want to make this an issue of “culture” and identity and to ignore class.

 

[27lw]

Couldn’t you make that argument for anyone who “works” for BLM?

They’re not ignoring class, are they? They’re trying to promote a path out of the lower class, and into the middle class, right? The “Success Sequence” people?

Also, for the record, the woman who promotes this organization is a Christian, and I think that point should be noted on a Catholic forum.

 

[Victoria33]

Absolutely. They’re both doing the same thing, just from opposite ends of the political spectrum. They both represent the same class interests, hence why they both essentially want to make this an issue of “culture” and identity and to ignore class.

I don’t believe Star Parker is saying to ignore class, they are urging people to stay in school.

 

[Victoria33]

Think Tanks, I watch some discussions from the Hudson Institute.

Though, I can see a point in viewing think tanks as something extravagant, if they are done right, they do inform. Simple as.

 

[Regular_Atheist]

@Victoria33 @27lw They are ignoring class in the sense that it actually exists, as the conflict between that segment of society representing capital, and that which opposes its domination and exploitation by capital.

The purpose a billboard like this serves is mostly just going to be ideological, and promote the idea that poverty can be overcome by every individual just working hard enough. Of course in reality every capitalist country is doomed to have a notable segment of the population living in relative poverty, and this isn’t an accident so much as a necessary way that the system functions.

 

[Victoria33]

Perhaps, China has really lowered their poverty rate with all of this industrialization, open or should it be called free trade but now, a lot of people are alert to a possible danger from China. I do.

I will add on, India has seen a dramatic decline in poverty too but not like in China.

This could be “think tank” discussion as far as that goes. Mexico has long undergone some industrialization and foreign investment. It’s effect?

 

[27lw]

@Victoria33 @27lw They are ignoring class in the sense that it actually exists, as the conflict between that segment of society representing capital, and that which opposes its domination and exploitation by capital.

The purpose a billboard like this serves is mostly just going to be ideological, and promote the idea that poverty can be overcome by every individual just working hard enough. Of course in reality every capitalist country is doomed to have a notable segment of the population living in relative poverty, and this isn’t an accident so much as a necessary way that the system functions.

Okay then, if capitalism “requires” a strata of society to be the “lower class”, if some people want to escape the lower class that they have been born into, there’s a path out of it.

What’s your plan for some people escaping the “lower class”?

 

[JonNC]

Of course in reality every capitalist country is doomed to have a notable segment of the population living in relative poverty,

Meanwhile, socialism requires virtually all people to live in abject poverty.
Except the ruling class, of course.

What’s your plan for some people escaping the “lower class”?

Join the ruling class, of course.

 

[Annie]

Of course in reality every capitalist country is doomed to have a notable segment of the population living in relative poverty, and this isn’t an accident so much as a necessary way that the system functions

Yeah, it’s so much better to eliminate relative poverty by making everyone equally poor.

 

[Sarcelle]

It’s a very stupid and patronising billboard. I can see why locals might want it taken down. I certainly wouldn’t want to have to see such lecturing from the idle middle class whenever I go down the street.

This woman works for a “Think Tank.” Maybe she should get a job.

It may be patronizing but it does work.

Finishing school, not being a single mother, having a job, saving and investing are good hedges against poverty.

 

[Sarcelle]

Meanwhile, socialism requires virtually all people to live in abject poverty.
Except the ruling class, of course.

Crony capitalism can do the same. The American middle class is under attack and it’s not from the socialists.

 

[JonNC]

Crony capitalism can do the same. The American middle class is under attack and it’s not from the socialists.

On this I agree. The way to stop crony capitalism is to reduce the power centralized in Washington. In other words, return to article 1 section 8 and the 9th and 10th Amendments.

 

[upant]

Are you talking about the BLM movement or BLM organization? Or people in the movement?

we have been down this road but for new readers

they are all the same at this point, if you disagree please point out how I can tell which group a person protesting or looting belongs to?

The organization doesn’t mention marriage in its statements of its position.

they may not mention it but speak volumes about it

We disrupt the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure

We foster a queer‐affirming network.

We build a space that affirms Black women and is free from sexism, misogyny, and environments in which men are centered.

which of these fit into the catholic idea about marriage?

poverty can be overcome by every individual just working hard enough.

yet, many people of all colors get out of poverty doing just that. it is not a cure-all but it does work for many.