How Church Teaching Can Help Explain Why 'Black Lives Matter'

[phil19034]

“Black lives matter” is 100% correct slogan. Black lives do matter.

However, “Black Lives Matter” the organization is marxist and anti-Christ.

The problem is we have a good slogan mixed up with a not-so-good organization.

So what should good Christians (eps leaders of the Black Churches) do? Change the slogan and/or publicly bash the organization.

I can support Black lives without giving money to the “Black Lives Matter” organization. When organizations & companies give money to the “Black Lives Matter” organization, they are fundraising for Marxism - which is an evil ideology, as taught by the Catholic Church.

We need to make a fundamental delineation between “Black lives matter” the slogan & “Black Lives Matter” the Marxist organization.

 

[phil19034]

Nigel7:

BIG dif between the two that the Archbishop fails terribly to discern.

Have you actually read the article ? Archbishop Lori explicitly states, I quote :

At the outset, it is important to clarify that my efforts here are not intended to address, and certainly not to endorse, the specific political organization legally known as the BlackLivesMatter Global Network. Many ideological platforms and tactical strategies promoted under the umbrella of the phrase “Black Lives Matter” are in direct contradiction to church teaching and should rightfully be rejected by faithful Catholics.

What Archbishop Lori is doing is precisely giving new meaning to the words “Black Lives Matter” from a Catholic point of view, not blindly condoning a Marxist – or anything else – agenda.

Yes, he is trying to do something good, by saving the slogan. But the problem is that slogan was pretty much created by the organization in the first place (or at least adopted by them almost right away).

I simply don’t think it’s possible to divorce the slogan from the organization.

Instead, it would be easier to say things like “Black lives do matter” or “Black people matter”

 

[Anrakyr]

Yes, he is trying to do something good, by saving the slogan. But the problem is that slogan was pretty much created by the organization in the first place (or at least adopted by them almost right away).

I simply don’t think it’s possible to divorce the slogan from the organization.

Instead, it would be easier to say things like “Black lives do matter” or “Black people matter”

Given how far and wide the message has went we are long past that option.
I think we waste too much time on the who vs the what.