BLM Revisited: Toronto Co-Founder Says Whites are “Recessive Genetic Defect”

Posted by Tina

Put this information in the “Tolerance of the Left” file or, if you prefer, “Racism on the Radical Left.” Either way what Yusra Khogali had to say over the weekend is just plain dangerous and ugly:

A co-founder of Black Lives Matter Toronto argued that white people are “recessive genetic defects” and purportedly mused about how the race could be “wiped out,” according to a post on what appears to be her Facebook page.

According to the Toronto sun this person is well known for her racist, intolerant comments. A list, taken from the articles content follows:

“Justin Trudeau is a white supremacist terrorist

“Plz Allah give me strength to not cuss/kill these men and white folks out here today.

“Whiteness is not humxness…infact, white skin is sub-humxn.

“white ppl need white supremacy as a mechanism to protect their survival as a people because all they can do is produce themselves. black ppl simply through their dominant genes can literally wipe out the white race if we had the power to.”

This is happening in Canada but the sentiment expressed isn’t far afield from similar rhetoric expressed by groups in America. These groups tend to offer a platform for people like this woman who feed off their own hate to foment derision and strife. Sadly this type of activism has been encouraged by our leaders in America. But as FrontPage Magazine points out, this group’s founding principles are not aligned with our founding principles:

Black Lives Matter was established two years ago in response to the acquittal of George Zimmerman, the “white Hispanic” who was tried for murder and manslaughter vis-à-vis the 2012 killing of Trayvon Martin. According to BLM, Zimmerman’s act was but a microcosm of the “virulent anti-Black racism” that “permeates our society” and continues to exacerbate “the deep psychological wounds of slavery, racism and structural oppression.”

Emphasizing the permanence of America’s depredations, BLM maintains that: (a) our nation’s “corrupt democracy” was originally “built on Indigenous genocide and chattel slavery” and “continues to thrive on the brutal exploitation of people of color”; (b) “the ugly American traditions of patriarchy, classism, racism, and militarism” pervade every aspect of our society; (c) “structural oppression” still “prevents so many from realizing their dreams”; and (d) blacks in the U.S. are routinely “de-humaniz[ed]” and targeted for “extrajudicial killings … by police and vigilantes” in our “white supremacist system.”

You see, “Black Lives Matter” means a whole lot more than just “Black Lives Matter.”

The lead founder of BLM is Alicia Garza, a young woman who candidly reveres Assata Shakur—the Marxist revolutionary, former Black Panther, and convicted cop-killer whose 1979 escape to Fidel Castro’s Cuba was facilitated by the Weather Underground Organization and the Black Liberation Army. Others whom Garza praises for their “extraordinary” accomplishments include Angela Davis (a Marxist and former Black Panther); Ella Baker (an avowed socialist who had ties to the Communist Party USA and the Weather Underground); and Audre Lorde (a black Marxist lesbian feminist).

In recent months, you’ve likely heard some commentators—generally in reaction to black killings of fellow blacks or of police officers—tweak Garza’s signature catch-phrase to suggest that “All Lives Matter.” But this type of ideological deviation is unacceptable to Miss Garza, who reminds us that blacks “are uniquely, systematically, and savagely targeted by the state” in a way that no other people are. “[S]tand with us in affirming Black lives,” she declares. “Not just all lives. Black lives. Please do not change the conversation by talking about how your life matters, too.” The “tired trope that we are all the same,” Garza elaborates, serves only to “perpetuate a level of White supremacist domination.”

“Black Lives Matter”? You bet. Other lives? Screw you.

Another of BLM’s co-founders, Patrisse Cullors, is a self-identified “freedom fighter” who advocates dramatically “reducing the law-enforcement budget” and forcing some police departments to be entirely “disbanded or abolished.” “With a reduction of law-enforcement money,” says Cullors, “we can then be putting it back into Black communities”—i.e., government-funded programs that provide “black folks” with “jobs,” “housing,” and “healthy food.” In other words, a Marxist paradise filled with dutiful slaves who are entirely dependent upon Washington.

The third and final co-founder of BLM, Opal Tometi, is a “Black feminist writer” and “cultural organizer” who contends that “the racist structures that have long oppressed Black people” perpetuate a “cycle of oppression” that “allows law enforcement to kill Black people at nearly the same rate as Jim Crow lynchings” once occurred in the Old South.

Former President Obama brought this organization to the White House lending approval ans support and elevating the status of what appears to be a radical subversive group, at least at the level of leadership.

Let us refresh our memories about the premise under which we in America live: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal and endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights, that among these are the rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

This grounding has moved our nation to acceptance, tolerance, and promotion of people of color. Although as a people we are not perfect the vast majority of our citizens live and work peacefully together within our shores. This grounding principle is a treasure worth promoting and preserving.

Any time people join to form a group that seeks to elevate that group above others in some manner the foundational principle of equality is eroded and compromised. The sooner we get back to our founding ideals of equality, and begin to comport ourselves according to those ideals, the better. America offers people of all races and creeds opportunities and a level of safety not available to them in many nations across the globe. Why not celebrate this miracle of human interaction?

I question the motives behind people like Yusra Khogali and her counterparts in America. Their positions are founded in lies and their methods destructive. Not surprisingly, the message that fronts these groups sound noble and benign. People are people and each of us is flawed. Black lives matter only when all lives matter.