George Floyd's death was the best day Black Lives Matter ever had. //

Floyd’s death served a singular purpose that I think is important, and that’s the conversations around police tactics and methods. That’s a conversation that is definitely needed because perfecting policing is always a good thing and knowing what not to do in certain situations will prevent a lot of grief, fired officers, and news cycles in the future.

But if we’re being realistic, Floyd’s death didn’t highlight a major problem that many think it did.

According to the Washington Post “Fatal Force” database, 2019 saw police shoot and kill 999 people. Out of that number, 55 suspects shot and killed by police that were unarmed, 14 of which were black. Keep in mind that “unarmed” doesn’t necessarily mean “innocent.” Some of these police shootings were still considered justified due to the suspect’s actions such as the physical assault of an officer or attempts at seizing an officer’s weapons.

But let’s say all of the unarmed killings were justified. In a country of about 40 million black people, 14 of them dying by the hands of officers while unarmed is hardly an epidemic. I’m not excusing unjustified shootings by police officers at all, but let’s not pretend that we have a major problem of innocent black people being gunned down by officers in the streets like Black Lives Matter is suggesting. It’s just not happening. //

The point of George Floyd wasn’t to raise awareness, it was to start a war, and it succeeded.

Black Lives Matter is not a movement that focuses on the equality and protection of black lives, and this isn’t me speculating or accusing. These are the words of many of its cheerleaders and administrators. //

CNN host Don Lemon told Terry Crews exactly what BLM was about. //

Don Lemon says black lives don’t matter unless they’re being taken by cops and that you should start your own movement if you want to make black-on-black violence an issue.