Does Black Lives Matter speak for black Brits? The organisation’s objectives are certainly radical: it has professed public support for direct action in the name of ‘black liberation’, along with aspirations to dismantle the capitalist economy. It has also said it wants to get rid of the police and abolish prisons. It’s safe to say those views are not shared by many of those BLM claims to represent.
A new report by the Henry Jackson Society reveals that, while nearly six in ten black people in Britain think the UK is a fundamentally racist society (a view shared by three in ten people in the general population), the core objectives of BLM are far from well supported.
Fewer than one in five black British people support reduced investment for their local police force, with only a quarter backing the replacement of the UK’s market economy with a socialist system.
No ‘anti-racist’ organisation is worthy of the label if it is reluctant to express solidarity with black British police officers
It won’t come as much of a surprise to learn that those surveyed were largely patriotic and opposed to radical hard-left objectives surrounding the economy and the police.
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