Since it's an LA Times article, it dances elaborately around the obvious.
Black churches are not on board with Black Lives Matter because it's a radical left-wing group that wrecks black communities to push a left-wing agenda. It's fund by rich white leftists like Soros and gets backing from the Ford Foundation.
Its aggressive championing of gay rights scores no points with black churches. And plenty of black churches have memberships who are older and as sensitive to local crime and violence as older white people. They are none too fond of Michael Brown because they know quite well that the latest BLM t-shirt cause of the week would crack open their heads for twenty bucks and leave them in the street.
Like Obama, BLM is a left-wing cause masquerading as a black one. Unlike him, it hasn't won that much support in the black community because Obama is seen as a model of pride for black success.
BLM doesn't represent black success. It's not even the edgy radicalism of its inspirations in black nationalism. Like Ta-Nehisi Coates, it's less radical than whiny. It' not a role model for anyone except white leftists.
For decades, they’ve been catalysts for civil rights activism, occupying an important niche at the center of protests over police misconduct and racial flashpoints in Los Angeles, from the Rodney J. King beating to the murder trial of O.J. Simpson.
But some black churches in Los Angeles, and the traditional African American clergy who lead them, have kept a decided distance from the new breed of activism represented by the Black Lives Matter movement.
Many church leaders have been cool to the brash, in-your-face tactics of Black Lives Matter. Ministers have spoken out forcefully about the way blacks are treated by police, but few have openly supported the group. For their part, Black Lives Matter organizers have turned to street protests and social media to get their message out rather than relying on the pulpit.
The two are not compatible. BLM is the radical left and black churches may ally on left-wing causes, but they dislike the overall agenda of the left.
Robin D.G. Kelley, a UCLA history professor, said Black Lives Matter has “taken a conscious stance against what they call ‘respectability politics,’ which is associated with mainstream political organizations and churches. They boldly challenge conservative views on sexuality, embrace LGBTQ communities and don’t care about ruffling feathers.”
In other words, they're a radical left-wing group pushing the broad left platform while pretending to be a black group.