Hey all I've seen several people express that although they can relate to the idea behind BLM, they are put off by the political bias of the organization and its rejection of capitalism. For those people I thought you might be interested to know that that same thing happened with MLK. People nowadays know of him mostly from his "I have a dream" speech which was not threatening to anyone and made him into a cultural icon at the time and made him popular among the white mainstream. But you don't hear so much about the direction he turned in his last days. Public opinion about him took a dive and people called it political suicide. He was assassinated not long afterwards. The more politicized anti-capitalist rhetoric wouldn't be tolerated by the powers that be. The event that marked this change was a lesser known speech that he gave in 1967 known now as "Beyond Vietnam".
There is stuff on the web about it but if you want a quick link, here's one:
https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/04/politics/martin-luther-king-beyond-vietnam-speech-backlash/index.html
It's an hour long speech so I don't expect anyone who has their mind made up to listen to it, but if you are interested to see how these things happen from a historical standpoint, take a listen or find a quick summary of it. In a lot of ways it was the same thing we are seeing now with BLM. I don't claim to be an expert on BLM but it's apparent they see the problem as a structural flaw that isn't going to get fixed by replacing a few white faces with brown faces in our current economic system.
I'm not gonna trade personal insults with people or wank about political left vs right. That's not really what this is about. I just want to point out that this is not new.