Lt. Col. Allen West criticized the “Black Lives Matter” movement and the Democratic Party on Tuesday, alleging that both groups are following an agenda that hurts black Americans.
“If you are someone who escaped the leftist 21st century economic plantation, it is something wrong for you, mentally,” West, a former Florida congressman, told the “The Brian Kilmeade Show” as he discussed criticism of Republicans and black conservatives. “Something is wrong with you as to how you think.”
West similarly accused the “Black Lives Matter” movement of supervising the Democrats’ “plantation” in an opinion piece published Tuesday.
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“All lives matter, but this radical organization, Black Lives Matter, is the last Trojan [h]orse, “he wrote in the Canadian Free Press.” Consistent providers of systemic racism in the United States are [sic] The Democratic Party.
“They have cleverly devised this organization to enable its ends, the proliferation of the 21st century economic plantation. Black Lives Matter serves as supervisors on this plantation, fueling irrational emotionalism and anguish to support its agenda, its purpose.”
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During his interview with Kilmeade, West specifically called former Vice President Joe Biden, whom he said promoted a mindset that detracts from the ideas promoted by Martin Luther King Jr.
“Like Joe Biden said recently,” If you’re having trouble deciding between me or Trump, you’re not black. “That’s the mindset that has been pervading the entire United States of America,” said West, “and that’s exactly what Contrary to what Dr. Martin Luther King said when he said he wanted this country to come to a point where people were judged on the content of their character, not the color of their skin.
“But still, that’s where we are in the United States. We have stepped back.”
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West argued that Black Lives Matter and other groups were trying to extort corporations by intimidating them into adopting their social justice messages.
“You have these corporations and businesses that are basically forced to provide resources and contributions to an organization like Black Lives Matter,” he told Kilmeade. “This is extortion that is happening. This is fear, intimidation, coercion and, as you saw in Seattle, violence. And we cannot allow this to happen. These are anarchist groups. These are Marxist groups.”
In his opinion piece, West also criticized Black Lives Matter as untrue as he did not protest abortion, a procedure that disproportionately affects black families.
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“[S]Since 1973, there have been more than 20 million unborn black babies killed in the womb of black mothers, “he wrote.” The industry’s most responsible organization for the murder of unborn babies is Planned Parenthood. Planned Parenthood was founded by a well-known white racist supremacist, a woman who spoke at the Ku Klux Klan protests: Margaret Sanger. “
West added that “I have never heard Black Lives Matter speak, speak, or speak out against Planned Parenthood. Why? Simple; the white progressive socialist teachers who fund, finance, and enable Black Lives Matter don’t care about anything.” the lives of black children. “
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