WASHINGTON, D.C. Nov. 19 (DPI) – The Paris attacks pushed events at University of Missouri, Yale and Princeton off the top of news pages this week, angering some campus activists who, though their racial-justice motives may be pure, reacted like self-centered brats after losing the media spotlight.  Web comment boards were close to unanimous in their criticism of campus protesters and their surprisingly churlish response to losing the world’s attention.

Many readers, too, warned the Left — and Democrats generally — that their election prospects would be harmed by endorsing or allying with a neo-segregationist campus movement that many concluded lacks its own sense of tolerance. The reaction to the Paris attacks seemed to underscore that, many wrote.

Wrote one of the most popular posters on NYTimes.com today:

The surest way the Democratic party will lose the 2016 presidential election is if the candidates and the party embrace the values of the Black Lives Matter movement. For some reason the NYT editors think this small, fringe quasi weatherman underground group of frustrated people speaks for the black community or for the young more broadly. There is no evidence whatsoever that they do, while there is much evidence that their tactics, their lies and their methods only invoke anger, not fear, of the broader electorate.

Whatever sympathy mainstream progressives had for the campus movement – popping up now on dozens of campuses – seemed lost after the terrorist attacks in Paris.  The NY Times today did its best to re-legitimize the activists – reporting on an alleged maturation into a political movement – but the most popular reader comments seemed to contest the point.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/19/us/one-slogan-many-methods-black-lives-matter-enters-politics.html

The top five most recommended:

Raising awareness about heavy-handed police tactics and overly punitive, revenue-generating fines by courts is a cause most Americans are sympathetic to. But this movement has done just about everything possible to alienate the public, from obstructing traffic in places that have no link to police incidents to spouting off about ‘white privilage’ in contexts that make no sense. And the recent campus iteration of the movement is bordering on absurd. As someone else put it, does anyone honestly believe today’s college campuses are hotbeds of racism? America certainly has its problems, and I’m fine with protests in response to specific, documented incidents involving racism but I have no use for ‘let’s burn down the house’ rhetoric and tactics. How about just voting to start with?

“From 1980 through 2008, 84 percent of white victims were killed by whites and 93 percent of black victims were killed by blacks.” Fact check.
“According to the 2013 FBI Crime Report, that year the number of blacks killed by whites was at approximately 0.77 per 1,000,000 blacks, while the number of whites killed by blacks was at 9.83 per 1,000,000 whites.” Fact check.
OK, so when will the “black lives matter” group start demonstrating in their own neighborhoods on a daily basis to stop their killing of their own race by their own race so they have some principle to stand on before they start their next march?
“The Color of Crime” report, revised and issued in 2005, laid out a litany of additional facts about black criminality:
“Blacks are seven times more likely than people of other races to commit murder, and eight times more likely to commit robbery.”
“When blacks commit crimes of violence, they are nearly three times more likely than non-blacks to use a gun, and more than twice as likely to use a knife.”
“Of the nearly 770,000 violent interracial crimes committed every year involving blacks and whites, blacks commit 85 percent and whites commit 15 percent.”
“Blacks commit more violent crime against whites than against blacks. Forty-five percent of their victims are white, 43 percent are black, and 10 percent are Hispanic. ”
“Blacks are 2.25 times more likely to commit officially-designated hate crimes against whites than vice versa.”

Perhaps the most useless, disorganized and misguided “movement” of our 239 year old country. This group or whatever you want to call it, doesn’t have an agenda, and always when asked, as I’ve seen many reporters do, if they personally have felt an injustice or racially discriminated against, most say no. In fact, it seems like every time a camera is put on these people, they are pushing other people out of the way, bullying them (see Sanders speech from a couple months ago) and issuing seemingly terrorist threats of “agree with me or else.”
To quote the headline, this group now seeks political capital and as we all knew all along, this was never about curing or proving a cause, it was only politics and just wanting to be heard, regardless of the message being conveyed, even if wrong, which it is.  Any presidential candidate or politician would be stepping onto a slippery slope to back or identify with this group. It will almost inevitably bite back as these people have shown little moral compass and sadly, a very poor understanding of our nations constitution and just how many wonderful things already exist to give all of us great freedoms and the “safety” of being.  Another thing not written, many of these rabble rousers are invited to campuses and given free educations, hence their misguided position. Had they earned it through hard work, being academic or with physical employment and saved for their education, many of these folks would change their tune.

Although police conduct should always be held in check by civil vigilance, if the Black Community wants black lives to matter, they really need to take a look at blacks killing blacks, blacks destroying their housing, and blacks blaming everyone else for their problems. They have plenty of societal advantage, incentive and opportunities to get ahead. The surest way the democratic party will lose the 2016 presidential election is if the candidates and the party embrace the values of the BLM movement. For some reason the NYT editors think this small, fringe quasi weatherman underground group of frustrated people speaks for the black community or for the young more broadly. There is no evidence whatsoever that they do, while there is much evidence that their tactics, their lies and their methods only invoke anger, not fear, of the broader electorate. Capitulation by Sanders and Clinton to the extortionate demands for publicity at political rallies only underscores for the republican opponents how weak the democrats might prove in the face of such international bullies as Putin, et al.
BLM doesn’t matter to democratic ambitions as much as it does to republican ambitions. As for BLM’s attitude about other lives that matter, just google the BLM hashtag for the Paris terrorist attack. Read through the postings and you’ll understand all you need to know about BLM’s political sagacity and probably a lot more about their views on racism.

Another post:

BLM lost its chance for legitimacy after the “Hands Up Don’t Shoot” and “Gentle Giant” narrative turned out to be a fraud.  I prayed they would lead the citizens of Ferguson to register, and turnout in droves for the 2014 election … put real meaning behind the chant “this is the face of democracy in Ferguson” we heard so often. The sad fact is only 128 new voters registered, and there was a drop in turnout. Instead of meaningful action we get pseudo intellectual lectures from privileged black kids on “micro aggression”, “insensitivity”, calls for re-segregation through “safe spaces”, a fascist like repression of free speech and diverse ideas, and incredibly stupid demands for “policies for dealing with incidents the activists find offensive.” What is truly sad is that university faculties and administrations are giving credence to this nonsense.

https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/3stvff/mizzou_protesters_black_lives_matter_complain/