Black Lives Matter is devolving into a generic left-wing front as I wrote in this recent article.
Last week, Black Lives Matter shut down London City Airport. The London in the UK, not the ones in Kentucky, Texas or Arkansas.
Why? To protest Global Warming.
You might be scratching your head at that one, but according to Black Lives Matter its activists were protesting Global Warming because the weather hurts black people more. But to confuse matters more most of the Black Lives Matter protesters chanting “Climate Change is Racist” in London were white.
The leader of the group though missed the protest because she was on a plane.
ONE of the leaders of Black Lives Matter UK missed the group’s airport protest this week – because she had to catch a “taxpayer-funded” flight to Brazil.
“At London City Airport a small elite is able to fly, in 2016 alone 3,176 migrants have died or gone missing in the Mediterranean #Shutdown.
“By 2050 there will be 200 million climate refugees. Black people are the first to die, not the first to fly, in this racist climate crisis.”
But despite retweeting several of the above messages, Black Lives Matter founding member Natalie Jeffers, from Brighton, was unable to make it to the demo as she was flying to South America.
Jeffers caught a fuel-guzzling long-haul flight to Brazil to speak at a feminist conference in the luxurious Costa do Sauipe beach resort.
As usual the rules differ for the privileged. And privilege is a function of left-wing elite status which BLM very much has.