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The Amazon blurb says that The George Floyd riots that have precipitated great changes throughout American society were not spontaneous events. Americans did not suddenly rise up in righteous anger, take to the streets, and demand not just that police departments be defunded but that all the structures, institutions, and systems of the United States—all supposedly racist—be overhauled.

The 12,000 or so demonstrations and 633 related riots that followed Floyd’s death took organizational muscle. The movement’s grip on institutions from the classroom to the ballpark required ideological commitment. That muscle and commitment were provided by the various Black Lives Matter organizations.

Alicia Garza, co-founder of the anti-American Black Lives Matter, along with Opal Tometi and Patrisse Cullors, is shown in this book to be an avowed Marxist who says she wants to dismantle our way of life, substituting Marxism [because that worked so well in Venezuela and Cuba and China and the USSR?]

This book examines who the BLM leaders are, delving into their backgrounds and exposing their agendas—something the media has so far refused to do. These people are shown to be avowed Marxists who say they want to dismantle our way of life. Along with their fellow activists, they make savvy use of social media to spread their message and organize marches, sit-ins, statue tumblings, and riots. In 2020 they seized upon the video showing George Floyd’s suffering as a pretext to unleash a nationwide insurgency.

BLM aims to kill America and replace it with a Marxist utopia that is utopia for a few leaders but hell for the rest of us

Certainly, no person of good will could object to the proposition that “black lives matter” as much as any other human life. But Americans need to understand how their laudable moral concern is being exploited for purposes that a great many of them would not approve.

"Black Lives Matter is a movement predicated on prevarication, and Gonzalez breaks down its dangerous falsehoods in hard-hitting fashion."—Ben Shapiro

BLM protest

"Mike Gonzalez shows why Americans must take seriously the architects of Antifa, Black Lives Matter, and Critical Race Theory. He systematically reveals how these Marxists seek to transform America into something unimagined by the Founders and unrecognizable to most Americans today. His diagnosis of the threat is superbly argued and his wake-up call sorely needed."—Victor Davis Hanson

Gonzalez' diagnosis of the Marxist threat we face is superbly argued and his wake-up call sorely needed

"A must read for patriots who wish to … fight back against BLM’s effort to tear down America’s most fundamental principles and institutions."—Ying Ma

Gonzalez's book is a must-read for patriots who wish to fight back against BLM’s effort to tear down America’s most fundamental principles and institutions gifted to us by the founders

Mike Gonzalez is a senior fellow at The Heritage Foundation’s Allison Center for Foreign Policy in Washington, D.C. He spent close to twenty years as a journalist, fifteen of them writing from Europe, Asia, and Latin America. He left journalism to join the Bush administration. Since 2009 he has been at The Heritage Foundation, where he now writes on critical race theory, national identity, diversity, multiculturalism, assimilation, and nationalism, as well as foreign policy in general. He is also the author of the highly acclaimed book, The Plot to Change America, which was published in 2020.

While Critical Race Theory (CRT) was already beginning to emerge within Colorado schools, the rise of BLM propelled CRT to an entire new level of influence. Liberty-minded people must have a solid understanding of the roots of CRT and its offspring.

The activists who promoted identity politics then purposely alienated people in these groups from America, whose history, institutions, traditions, and Founders were to be held in contempt—making Marxists everywhere proud

The white establishment bought it either because they panicked when they saw the riots, or out of white guilt. Either way, they gave in to the activists’ demands. The activists who promoted the identity categories and the feelings of victimization then purposely alienated people in these groups from America, whose history, institutions, traditions, and Founders were to be held in contempt.

Activists who promoted identity politics and the feelings of victimization then purposely alienated people in these groups from America, whose history, institutions, traditions, and Founders were to be held in contempt

The 1960s thus opened wounds that festered, and the infection spread to the whole national body. The patient is in intensive care half a century later, as the white guilt born in the 1960s has metastasized in the 2020s into a self-flagellating “allyship” that has whites ritualistically denouncing their country, its history, and its institutions, which they blame for a supposedly continued racism that lives no longer in the statutes but now in the unacknowledged subconscious of the nation.

Marxist leftists aren't concerned with how their lies and policies are killing our kids' futures as long as they acquire more power

To Mitchell, the guilt came forth on both sides of the Atlantic, as citizens of the 1960s were “haunted by the historical wounds their nations have authored—in America, the wound of slavery; and in Europe, the wounds of colonialism.” In an email to the author, Mitchell expands:

In the early years of the civil rights movements, black students wanted to have the right to read Shakespeare in college along with white students. Today, identity politics wants to erase Shakespeare

Guilt is no small part of the answer. Christianity no longer brought atonement, just happy talk. So, the left offered a deal: renounce your nations, your churches, and your heternormative families, and we will set you free of your guilt. That’s where we are today. In the early years of the civil rights movements, black students wanted to have the right to read Shakespeare in college along with white students. Today, identity politics wants to erase Shakespeare.

The manipulation of white guilt about black victimization has led to horrors like Black Lives Matter thugs burning down our cities while white cops did nothing

The admission of guilt extracted from the American body in the 1960s not only helped pave the way for the betrayal of the civil rights movement’s color-blind premises, but also gave justification for violence in the United States and in Europe and her colonies. Many of our 1960s radicals fed off the anti-colonial movement occurring at the time, taking inspiration from the work of many writers and revolutionaries, but especially that of the Martinican intellectual Frantz Fanon. His slogan “by any means necessary” would become a meme repeated again and again by men such Malcolm X, Stokely Carmichael, and Noel Ignatiev. The individuals and movements that were formed toward this end have had a direct impact on Black Lives Matter.

The promise of “all men are created equal” sustained men from Jefferson to Lincoln to King. But if we need to understand why we have BLM in the early twenty-first century, the 1960s and the manipulation of guilt is the right place to start looking

Again, all of this was the inverse of the truth. The American individuals and institutions that admitted to past sins did so because they aspired to live by the nation’s loftiest founding values, demonstrating the vacuity of the charges that all of America is rotten. The promise of “all men are created equal” sustained men from Jefferson to Lincoln to King. But if we need to understand why we have BLM in the early twenty-first century, the 1960s and the manipulation of guilt is the right place to start looking. (Source: White Guilt Destroyed the Promise of a Color-Blind Society, Mike Gonzalez, Encounterbooks)

When it was formed as an organization a year later in the wake of the police shooting of violent teenage thug Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, BLM tapped into decades of Marxist organizing, now boosted by the power of the Internet, social media, Antifa hoodlums, and a generation indoctrinated by the Sixties-era radicals whose ideology currently dominates academia

"Veteran journalist Mike Gonzalez, now a senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation, explains the nefarious origins and objectives of BLM, which to date has been sugarcoated by the mainstream media and sacralized by Democratic politicians. The Introduction states that “This book exists to fill the void in public awareness,” and Gonzalez ably delivers, boldly exposing the Marxist goals and “existential danger” of BLM in meticulous detail, complete with endnotes and index." . . . When it was formed as an organization a year later in the wake of the police shooting of violent teenage thug Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, BLM tapped into decades of Marxist organizing, now boosted by the power of the Internet, social media, Antifa hoodlums, and a generation indoctrinated by the Sixties-era radicals whose ideology currently dominates academia. . . . Subsequent chapters explore the roles of corporate America, deep-pocketed philanthropic foundations, the FBI, the mendacious media, “woke” K-12 education, and progressive Democrats in perpetuating the myth that BLM is a benign, spontaneous reaction to “systemic racism.”" (Source: Review: BLM: The Making of a New Marxist Revolution, Mark Pulliam, Misrule of law)

This book explore the roles of corporate America, deep-pocketed philanthropic foundations, the FBI, the mendacious media, “woke” K-12 education, and progressive Democrats in perpetuating the myth that BLM is a benign, spontaneous reaction to “systemic racism.”

"For all its outward pretension of caring for the plight of black Americans, the movement’s inner drive has proven to be the overhaul of American society along Marxist lines. . . . For the lay observer, Black Lives Matter (BLM) may seem like a discrete response to the killings of Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, and George Floyd, one limited to advocating for the rooting out of racial inequities from policing and the criminal justice system. Gonzalez proves beyond doubt that this is not the case. BLM is but the latest iteration of a long effort, first undertaken by the Soviet Union, to whip up racial animus and urban unrest for the benefit of Marxist causes. . . . “Behind the prison and police reform façade,” he writes, “lies a deep ideological commitment to abandoning our free-market and liberal democratic system and to remaking America along Marxist lines.” The reason this effort has fared far better than in the 1920s and 1960s is owed to the media’s refusal to cover these groups critically and to the state of ritualistic self-flagellation into which the liberal establishment has been cowed since the killing of George Floyd. . . . “Part of the reason that the woke complex today dismisses the Constitution,” he writes, “is that, as it has been written and amended, it stands in the way of many of the things they want to do, from instituting group rights and racial privileges to suppressing the right to speech, property and conscience.” . . . As soon as it formed, the Soviet Union began its own efforts to convert black Americans to communism through figures from the so-called Harlem Renaissance of black letters, such as Lanston Hughes, W.E.B. Du Bois and Claude McKay." (Source: BLM: America’s Homegrown Marxism, Jorge González-Gallarza, theamericanconservative)

Martin Luther King Jr.

"Is the advancement of human rights, and of the rights of black Americans in particular, better served within the United States’s liberal democratic system or outside of it? Lewis, like Martin Luther King Jr., believed the problem was not with liberalism, democracy, or America itself, but with our collective failure to apply our high ideals to our black fellow citizens. . . . But BLM is no passing fad or simple political grift. Whatever good intentions the movement’s casual supporters hold, its leaders have a far more malignant purpose. As Gonzalez puts it, “While only the deranged can take issue with the sentiment that black lives matter, the agenda of the organizations that have astutely appropriated that slogan is far different.”" (Source: The radical roots of BLM, Kyle Sammin, yahoo)

MLK, civil rights icon: "our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter"

Race Crazy - BLM, 1619, and the Progressive Racism Movement" Seeking Educational Excellence (SEE) executive director Charles Love argued that Black Lives Matter and the 1619 Project are a danger to the future of American democracy. AM560 Radio’s “The Answer” in Chicago hosted this event." . . . Meanwhile, organized BLM advances a radical and dangerous political agenda which, if enacted, would mean the end of the American experiment as we know it. The nation faces a pivotal moment: will we reject the Race Crazies, or let them destroy us?

We do not look at those black victims (of blacks) because they do not fit our narrative. The Black Lives Matter movement is a complete, utter fraud. It is a shameless deception. They do not give a damn about black lives. President Biden does not give a damn about black lives. The Democratic Party does not give a damn about black lives. The New York Times doesn’t give a damn about black lives—they're all using this scam to gain power for themselves

"Children are taught the politics of racial resentment and fear in schools. Films, novels, and even comic books are judged by the color of their protagonists—and their adherence to the latest “woke” messaging. Corporate America has universally adopted the slogan “Black Lives Matter” in every piece of marketing, those words serving as a talisman to protect them from Twitter mobs and outraged activists. And the 1619 Project and similar pieces of academic propaganda seek to redefine and undermine the very notion of America as a unified and great nation. Meanwhile, organized BLM advances a radical and dangerous political agenda which, if enacted, would mean the end of the American experiment as we know it. The nation faces a pivotal moment: will we reject the Race Crazies, or let them destroy us?" (Source: Race Crazy - BLM, 1619, and the Progressive Racism Movement, Charles Love, Post hill press)

BLM: The Making of a New Marxist Revolution is a very good—and essential—book and is highly recommended for people who are made sick by the idea that if we let the BLM Marxists push us into trading in our democracy for Marxist tyranny (like Venezuela), we will be doing something unforgivably stupid that will push us into hell and the worst part will be realizing we cannot go back. It is irreversible!

This book is highly recommended for people who are made sick by the idea that if we let the BLM Marxists push us into trading in our democracy for Marxist tyranny (like Venezuela) it will be hell