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The truth about BLM

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Syne Offline

"BLM is anti-black."
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C C Offline
A lot of unjustified police violence has been transpiring in Nigeria, for years prior to this year's surge of arrests due to lockdown. Including dragging offenders behind vehicles. Departments even profile and harass potential suspects because they possess or operate expensive items.

But there's no massive street activism about these countless incidents in Nigeria. Because of lack of whites to project upon the archaic oppressor/oppressed conspiracy theory (adapted from Marxism for race) as the source of social problems. (According to demographics, there are fewer than 50,000 such residents in a country of over 200 million.) Astonishingly, the population was roused in the global call to join BLM protests about George Floyd, but little extended concern about their own epidemic of police killings apart from impotent online activity.


As the World Marches for American Victims, Police Brutality in Africa Goes Unnoticed
https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/06/17/bla...brutality/

EXCERPTS (Patrick Egwu): . . . But for Chukwuebuka, there was no national outrage or calls for independent inquiry and reforms, no mass protests or global solidarity worldwide. As a Nigerian, it shocked me that the death of Floyd seems to mean more to the world than Chukwuebuka’s meant in his own country. This is how much a black life matters in Nigeria.

Chukwuebuka is hardly alone. During the first two weeks after lockdown began on March 30, 18 people were killed extrajudicially by the police [...] This is not a new phenomenon. Nigerian police has a notorious record of human-rights abuses, brutality, and even extrajudicial killings for the slightest of offenses, such as refusing to give bribes, holding an expensive phone, or driving a fancy car. Reports of police brutality are so common across Africa that they’re not meaningfully tracked.

Whenever anyone is killed by the police in Nigeria, fancy hashtag activism for justice trends for some days. A moment later, everything returns to normal and life continues. There are no street protests demanding justice or the prosecution of the killers. The police and other security actors such as the Special Anti-Robbery Squad unit carry on as before. Hashtag activism is no answer.

In the wake of the killing of Floyd, the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission—a government agency that provides engagement and protects the welfare of Nigerians abroad, officially held a solidarity rally and memorial service to protest the killing and called for justice. “This gathering is against violence, brutality and racial discrimination,” Abike Dabiri-Erewa, the head of the commission, said during the solidarity rally. “We call for respect and dignity for all races. Never again should we be made to witness what we saw on the streets of Minneapolis, the slow murder of an individual by a uniformed police officer.”

But there has been no memorial service for the hundreds of Nigerians killed through police brutality over the last few years. The discrepancy isn’t limited to Nigeria...
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