CNN host Don Lemon lied through his teeth to his viewers this past Thursday when he claimed the organization Black Lives Matter never said it “doesn’t like the old fashioned family”.
After showing a video of Representative Glenn Grothman saying “I know [BLM] is a group that doesn’t like the old fashioned family,” Don Lemon bashed the congressman for being “racist”.
“What he says isn’t even coded racism. That’s right out – saying it right out loud. Saying it right out loud. When people show you who they are, huh?” decried the tv host.
Well, someone should tell Don Lemon to check himself and his liberal outrage. The Black Lives Matter website stated, “We disrupt the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure requirement by supporting each other as extended families and “villages” that collectively care for one another, especially our children, to the degree that mothers, parents, and children are comfortable.”
The group has since deleted this section from their page after receiving public backlash, but not before someone web archived it.
Don Lemon went on to twist Grothman’s words, and highlighted a clip of Delegate Stacey Plaskett saying, “How dare you say that black people do not understand old fashioned families?!”
Of course, this too is a complete lie. Grothman never said anything of the sort. He specifically referred to the organization BLM’s own policy platform that is quoted above. This bait and switch tactic is what the communist Left does. It goes beyond taking a statement out of context. It is inventing words. It is attributing something to someone that they never said. This is a microcosm of what is wrong with politics today.
So let me be clear. Let me be unambiguous. Black lives DO matter. That said, the organization BLM, whose leaders are self described Marxists, is a group hellbent on the destruction of American society. There are plenty of good and reasonable people who marched peacefully for policing reforms this past summer, but they will not find a trustworthy ally in the Marxist Left. BLM already faces charges of misusing the funds they raised, and local activists who are actually trying to improve their communities have complained that they never received any financial support from BLM. I guess this all makes sense, considering that communists hate money until it’s in their hands.
