Basically no one in BLM is a cop killer or sympathizer with cop killers . You ' ll find some chickens coming home to roost observations , but that should hardly be controversial considering the scale of violence the State uses against people , anymore than it shoud be surprising that poor countries that lack a big military to confront western imperialists would create terrorists that bomb western placesif you upset the hornets nest , you get stung . Like Reagan said , the scariest words are I ' m from the government and I ' m here to help , especially if that government stooge has a gun . It ' s troubling because Lee Atwater ' s Southern Strategy was to purge Republican campaigns of overt racism and to substitute it with covert , dog whistle phrases like states rights and forced bussing , despite how effective racist language is at getting whites to vote how you want them to . He said it was becoming a PR problem outside the party . he admitted these polices would still hurt Blacks more than whites , but they would stop talking about race directly . Wouldn ' t that solve the racism problem , he asked ? No . it merely abstracted it , allowing for whites to say I ' m not racist , but I fully support all these racist policies . Structural racism isn ' t even real , we fixed racism because no one is overly racist anymore . The response to this was PC culture , aka the oppressed pointing out you can be racist without claiming that label for yourself . You can never say the N word , but if you support gun control and the war on drugs , think Black English is inherently funny sounding , or think Blacks have a cultural problem like dependence and a victim mentality , you ' re as racist as anyone in effect , because intention means bupkis next to outcome . All present whitewashed racist arguments have existed since race first got invented in its modern form to justify the slave trade . Public protest has to be socially disruptive for it to work . If there were integrated methods of change that didn ' t need to be disruptive , people would use thempeople are risk adverse and we ' re trained from birth to honor our social customs . Despite popular myth making , everyone else isn ' t stupid . They have a life of personal experiences that taught them they can ' t rely on established methods of politics to have their needs met , experiences that contradict the idea that our civil infrastructure is capable of servicing the population all equally if they just did what the were supposed to . For any of this to make sense , you have to approach people as more or less as rational as you are , regardless of their beliefs . I ' m not religious or conservative , but I don ' t think conservative religious white workers are irrational and voting against their interests , that would be smug and insulting like a Daily Show fan . Civil disobedience is always criticized for being disruptive , because it has to be . The only thing that matters to people now is cash money , so if you want to make a difference , you have to hurt people ' s cash flow , in the hopes of saving human lives . The oppressed don ' t have time to hold everyone else ' s hand through the change , they got lives on the line . If you can ' t get that , you won ' t understand why MLK said moderate whites are bigger threats to civil rights than the KKK cuz they prefer the negative peace of the absence of conflict over the positive peace of the presence of justice