Opinion of Black Lives Matter

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

The concept is sound. Attempts to represent it as being somehow racist against white people or whatever are ridiculous, not so much because racism against white people is impossible--this is a matter of definition and there are always going to be people whose understanding of these things isn't especially structurally/sociologically oriented--as because it's intended to draw attention precisely to the fact that this is something that disproportionately (not exclusively, but very disproportionately) affects black people, and so turning it into 'All Lives Matter' or whatever else would in fact be derailing the subject into addressing related but technically separate issues. The idea that it's 'anti-police' and thus bad is also ridiculous, because there is nothing inherent to being a police officer that renders somebody above criticism, and if anything the high regard in which most people hold the police makes the incredibly widespread moral rot among them even more invidious. Having said all this, it's difficult to say that the behavior of a lot of these demonstrators in practice has been in any way helpful. Voted Freedom Movement on balance.