The organization Black Lives Matter “is not a civil rights movement,” civil rights pioneer Clarence Henderson told Fox Business Network “Money Making with Charles Payne” on Thursday, adding that the group is made up of “Marxists.”
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“They have told us who they are and their intentions are to tear the dust off America,” said Henderson, who spoke at the Republican National Convention Wednesday night. “Like you said, there is a proper process, while peaceful protest should always be done when things go the wrong way.”
Henderson added that the United States had “made great progress” since joining the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s, and argued that the current efforts were merely racist.
Clarence Henderson speaks Wednesday at the Republican National Convention from Greensboro, NC. (Thanks to the Committee on Arrangements for the Republican National Committee 2020 via AP)
“What is happening now is that we have three very dangerous situations in America,” he said. “That is the media. That’s Hollywood. And you have our universities that teach our children … [differently] then what America is all about. ”
Henderson questioned what the Protestants sought to achieve and stressed that America has a legal system based on proper process that works to bring about necessary change.
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“We have in many ways become a court of public opinion,” he said.
In his RNC remarks, Henderson praised the progress that America’s Black communities have made under President Trump, and claims that Trump has achieved more for Black Americans in four years than Joe Biden has in 50 years.
