Thread: Ray Lewis rips Black Lives Matter movement for ignoring black-on-black crime

Irony alert: Ray Lewis rips Black Lives Matter movement for ignoring black-on-black crime


Former Baltimore Ravens NFL football player Ray Lewis talks to students at Frederick Douglass High School as Ravens C.J. Mosley looks on Thursday, April 30, 2015, in Baltimore. (Kenneth K. Lam/Baltimore Sun via AP) more >


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By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times -
Updated: 2:47 p.m. on Wednesday, April 6, 2016

A Facebook video of former Baltimore Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis criticizing the Black Lives Matter movement for ignoring black-on-black crime has gone viral.

“I’m trying to figure out if black lives really matter,” an emotional Mr. Lewis said in the videoposted on his personal page Saturday. “The March murder rate rose by 29 percent, but we’re not rioting in the streets over black-on-black crime.

“I’m trying to figure out in my mind why no one is paying attention to black men killing black men,” he continued. “Why do we always find ourselves as the victims, and now we have the separation once again that we’re being victimized because of one bad white cop, two bad white cops, three bad white cops, killing a young black brother. But every day we have black-on-black crime, killing each other.

“I know black lives matter, because I’m a black man, but man, stop killing each other. Man, we got to put these guns down in Chicago.

Baltimore, Miami, man it ain’t that hard. You got to be OK with earning a living. It ain’t supposed to be easy,” Mr. Lewis said. “If we don’t change what we’re doing not only will our kids not have a future, but we might find ourselves extinct.”

As of Wednesday afternoon, Mr. Lewis’ video had been viewed more than 2.8 million times.

This isn’t the first time he’s called out the movement for focusing on the wrong issues.

“Remove the word ‘Black’ and say ‘Lives Matter,’ ” Mr. Lewis said in September, BET reported. “Stop sending mothers back home empty. You can never replace a mother’s child. If we want Black Lives Matter, let’s make it matter to us.

That’s the new call.”

Mr. Lewis has been accused of black-on-black homicides before.

He and two companions were charged with murder and aggravated assault in a double stabbing death growing out of an altercation after the 2000 Super Bowl in Atlanta. In mid-trial Mr. Lewis had the most serious charges dismissed in exchange for his testimony against Reginald Oakley and Joseph Sweeting.

Mr. Lewis pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor obstruction-of-justice charge for giving police a misleading statement, and was sentenced to 12 months probation.

Mr. Lewis’s two friends were acquitted but nobody else has ever been charged.

Mr. Lewis reached settlements with the families of victims Jacinth Baker and Richard Lollar.

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'Tell the truth:' Bill Clinton clashes with Black Lives Matter protesters

Published April 08, 2016 FoxNews.com

NOW PLAYINGBill Clinton clashes with Black Lives Matter protesters
Former President Bill Clinton was involved in a heated exchange with Black Lives Matter protesters Thursday at a Hillary Clinton campaign event in Philadelphia, where he was forced to defend his record as president and his wife’s past statements.

For almost 15 minutes Clinton sparred with protesters who objected to the 1994 criminal justice reform bill he signed into law as president that increased prison sentences for a number of gang-related offenses.

Black Lives Matter activists claim the bill disproportionately hurt African-Americans.

A visibly agitated Clinton told the protesters that the bill helped crack down on gangs who were killing African-American children.

"I talked to a lot of African-American groups. They thought black lives mattered. They said take this bill because our kids are being shot in the street by gangs. We had 13-year-old kids planning their own funerals," Clinton said.

One protester yelled that “black youth are not super predators” – a reference to a statement Hillary Clinton made as first lady. The former president shot back.

“I don't know how you would characterize the gang leaders who got 13-year-old kids hopped up on crack and sent them out onto the streets to murder other African-American children, maybe you thought they were good citizens,” Clinton said, his face turning increasingly red. “She didn’t.”

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“You are defending the people who killed the lives you say matter. Tell the truth. You are defending the people who cause young people to go out and take guns,” Clinton yelled.

He also addressed claims by the protesters that the 1996 welfare reform bill increased poverty among African-Americans.

“They say the welfare reform bill increased poverty then why did we have the largest drop in African American poverty in history when I was president?” he asked rhetorically.

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