Editor’s note: What follows is an excerpt from Charles Love’s “Race Crazy: BLM, 1619, And The Progressive Racism Movement.” It can be purchased here.
If Black Lives Matter is the chaos arm of the movement, the Movement for Black Lives is the operating system. How a group so connected, so influential, and so well-funded can operate with no exposure in the age of social media is both a testament to its power and a sad statement of how far the media has fallen.
It would be so much simpler to have one or two organizations with chapters throughout the country. It would result in
easier fundraising and better messaging. But the Black Lives Matter movement is a complicated web of connected groups.
It is basically a race-based Ponzi scheme.
The most interesting thing about Black Lives Matter is not their IRS status; it is the fact that there is no longer a
Black Lives Matter organization.