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Black Perspectives on Black Lives Matter: Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Robert L. Woodson, Niger Innis, Burgess Owens, Horace Cooper, Candace Owens, Chlo\u00e9 Valdary, Richard Sherman, Denzel Washington, Barbara Ann Reynolds, Marcellus Wiley, Jason Whitlock and Muhammad Ali Jr.<\/em><\/p>\n

Black Appraisals of Black Lives Matter: Part III<\/h3>\n

Soeren Kern | Gatestone Institute<\/a> | October 7, 2020<\/p>\n

This multi-part series (Part I here<\/a>, Part II here<\/a> , Part III here<\/a>, Part IV here<\/a>) focuses on the perspectives of blacks \u2014 conservative, liberal or libertarian \u2014 who appraise BLM and its agenda. The following selection of commentary by blacks from all walks of life \u2014 actors, athletes, business people, civil rights activists, clergy, commentators, physicians and politicians \u2014 demonstrates that black public opinion is not monolithic and that BLM does not speak for all African Americans.<\/p>\n

Ayaan Hirsi Ali<\/strong>, author and research fellow at Stanford University\u2019s Hoover Institution, wrote<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\u201cOutrage is the natural response to the brutal killing of George Floyd. Yet outrage and clear, critical thinking seldom go hand in hand. An act of police brutality became the catalyst for a revolutionary mood. Protests spilled over into violence and looting. Stores were destroyed; policemen and civilians injured and killed. The truism \u2018black lives matter\u2019 was joined by a senseless slogan: \u2018Defund the police.\u2019 \u2026.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have no objection to the statement \u2018black lives matter.\u2019 But the movement that uses that name has a sinister hostility to serious, fact-driven discussion of the problem it purports to care about. Even more sinister is the haste with which academic, media and business leaders abase themselves before it. There will be no resolution of America\u2019s many social problems if free thought and free speech are no longer upheld in our public sphere. Without them, honest deliberation, mutual learning and the American problem-solving ethic are dead.\u201d<\/p>\n

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