Pray tell what class is this for?Actually, that's not quite accurate. See my responses to elephant as to the story behind them.
I had to read the book When They Call You a Terrorist by Patrisse Khan-Cullors, one of the two main founders of the movement, for one of my classes. If you can handle it emotionally, I would suggest reading it in order to know the enemy. However, it'll probably piss you off to a point that you want to punch through a brick wall. It's nothing but communist/racist propaganda. Cullors is an open and avowed communist; she lists Marx, Lenin, and Mao as her greatest influences. She claims that the inner city is largely without any crime, and that most drug use, gangs, and violent crime are actually in white suburban communities; her point to this is that policing has NOTHING to do with enforcing the law and they exist solely to oppress people of color. She supports killing cops and robbing white people on the grounds that black people have no other choice in order to survive in America. She believes that it is morally justified because nothing that a black person does to a white person could ever compare to the atrocities that whites inflicted on blacks.
BLM was always black-LGBTQ and female led. The founder, Patrisse Cullors, identifies as queer. She came out as a teenager, dated a few guys and girls as a teen, was married to a man for awhile, then got divorced and had a baby with another guy, was in a relationship with a trans-person for awhile, and now is in a relationship with a woman who identifies as...something else. From the very beginning, BLM was black-queer led.
Antifa is largely unorganized right now. BLM, despite masquerading as a grassroots movement, has a central leadership. BLM also started out somewhat peaceful in terms of their protest styles; Antifa has always been violent. BLM is more mainline Marxist-Leninist whereas Antifa is more Anarcho-communist. Antifa doesn't give two shits about BLM; they basically want to absorb them and be the only vanguard party.
Patrisse Cullors and Alicia Garza are the founders and main leaders of the movement. Angela Davis has a strong influence on the movement; she's the main mind behind abolishing law enforcement and prisons. I don't know if Cullors or Garza are behind the plans to have armed BLM "peace officers" or not, but I'd imagine they are, or at least are pulling the strings on that behind the scenes.
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