"our community"? Damn. Now I have to wonder whether when push comes to shove he would come down on the side of all America, or just black... I don't think I've ever see Thomas Sowell use that possessive description, and he's kind of my litmus test for blacks who have transcended skin-color-based myopia.

Fixing the black community has never been the goal, political profiteering always has been. Solving the problem would put an end to that.

13 50 90 That's what you need to know if black lives matter. 13% of the population commits 50% of the murders and 90% of those murdered are other black people. If black lives matter then the community needs to start addressing the problem of black on black violence.

But the BLM isn't about improving the lives of black people...

Tsk tsk. Dr. Carson simply does not understand the plight of black people.

It's all about keeping the anti-government people on the left from making common cause with the anti-government people on the right. Divide and conquer.

To paraphrase the Good Professor, I'll believe that black lives matter when blacks start acting like black lives matter.

No, they matter, if only on an objective spiritual level.

That's the real waste of socialism, that it requires so much human sacrifice to maintain it.

Ben Carson is not alone. Legions of other black people have pulled themselves out of the ghettos to live productive and self-fulfilling lives. So, it is demonstrably possible. But what of those left behind? The more society is able to inspire, lead and smooth the pathway for some of those who lag in the pursuit of well-being, the more others among them will fall behind. It is the most promising contenders for improvement who will move on to a better life, leaving those behind all the more deprived by the loss of the best examples among them. Social progress inevitably is a distillation dilemma which leaves a residual gap problem ever more resistant to solution -- like a knot in a tangled string that, with the unraveling of each easy loop, becomes tighter still. White folks are not the obstacle to a better life but the stubborn belief that they are is.

"Everybody has asked the question: 'What shall we do with the negro?' I have but one answer from the beginning. Do NOTHING with us. Your doing with us has already played mischief with us. Do nothing with us! ... All I ask is, give him a chance to stand on his own legs! Let him alone!" (Frederick Douglass)

and this is exactly the plan the GOP has been following since Reagan (and maybe before for all I know) and they can't crack double digits in the black vote.

Change "Jews" to "blacks" in Howard Baker's most infamous quote, and it's even more true.

That was James Baker.

BLM was founded and funded by Soros, apparently because the locals in Ferguson weren't violent enough early on. Mission Accomplished!

Soros is also the source of their funding and travel to all these photo ops. He is a $1 million Hillary PAC donor already, and the major benefactor of three pro-Hillary groups: Media Matters, Think Progress, and the newer Americans for Corruption or whatever Brock's new Hillary front is called.

Follow the money. They disrupt O'Malley, disrupt Sanders, arrange for a polite private meeting with Hillary. Do the math.

Then get their butts kicked by Hillary, how's that figure in the calculus?

perhaps that's why she's been indicted?

we all know it's not because the current administration gives a rodent's behind about national security.

You're fooling yourself if you think BLM doesn't know who their target is. The radical Left first conquers the moderate Left, then uses the Party's resources to force everyone else into line and move on to control the legislature and bureaucracy. This is how you radicalize a country.