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People are blaming the Chicago Facebook Live assault on Black Lives Matter — and it’s bullshit

On Tuesday, footage surfaced online of four black teenagers beating and berating a white male teenager who had been bound and gagged. The 30-minute-long video was streamed live via the Facebook account of one of the assailants. Voices can be heard throughout yelling, “Fuck white people!” and “Fuck Donald Trump!”

It should go without saying that this crime was horrific. Reports describing the young white man — who attended school with one of his attackers and suffers from “mental health challenges,” according to police — as he wandered the streets of Chicago after being set free are agonizing to read.

But it’s also clear that countless white Americans will draw the wrong conclusion from this incident. Many will see the boy’s kidnapping as justification for the view that black people are inherently criminal and black protest is an existential threat to society.

On Wednesday evening, the day after the Facebook Live video went public, #BLMKidnapping started trending on Twitter among mostly white commentators. There was no evidence that activists involved with the Movement for Black Lives — a coalition of black civil rights organizations that includes Black Lives Matter — were involved in the incident, nor did the assailants mention BLM or indicate they were affiliated with the movement in any way.

White opponents and their allies have been calling Black Lives Matter terrorists since the group’s inception, but the speed with which this incident has been used to dismiss the concerns of civil rights activists follows a familiar pattern. Historically, whites have justified racism by pointing to unrelated violence and misbehavior committed by black people. The underlying logic is clear: In order to deserve equality in the eyes of whites, black people must be perfect. Read more

Another black teen was killed by the police on Saturday. His name was Carnell Snell. He was 18 years old.  Local media reported that the man was fatally shot by police in the backyard of home near 1700 block of 107th Street, where his mother was filmed asking the police to see her son.

Activists who gathered to mourn his death said Carnell was shot in the back with his hands up.People also say police didn’t let the ambulance to help a dying teen. He was still alive 20 minutes after the shooting, the ambulance was there, yet they didn’t let him survive. 

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A few days after Kenneth Walker received a threatening letter, his home was burned down .He and his family lost all their posessions and two cats, however, he is staying positive and he says he won’t give up on volunteering as a firefighter. He hopes this was an isolated incident.

This is terrorism and i bet this was not an isolated incident, because crazy people just don’t stop.How much do you need to hate a person to burn his house? Where does this hatred come from? Is the color of his skin so offensive? Can’t believe it’s 2016 and we have to talk about issues like racism.