Seattle BLM protesters demand white people 'give up' their homes
By: Joshua Rhett Miller (New York Post)
First it was white flight. Now it's gentrification.
These protests are highlighting that BLM is really only about the money. Even if these protesters are given a lifestyle to which they aspire, they'll still have to maintain it. Simply being given (or taking) what you want isn't sustainable.
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A group of Black Lives Matter protesters in Seattle marched through a residential neighborhood this week demanding that white residents give up their homes, dramatic video shows.
Footage of the Wednesday demonstration posted to Twitter shows a crowd of dozens chanting "Black lives matter" before an unidentified man projects his ire toward nearby white residents — saying they are living in a historically black section of the city as another woman in the crowd yells that they should "give up" their homes, the clip shows.
"Do you know that before your white ass came here, this was all black people?" the man says. "Do you know people like you came in here and basically bought all the land from the black people for less than what it was worth, kicked them out so you could live here? Do you know that?"
The man continues: "'Cause if you don't, now you f-king do — now do something about it!"
Another woman in the crowd then urges the residents to "open their wallet" as the man continues to yell at the unidentified residents off-camera.
"So how do you plan to fix it?" the man continues. "As a gentrifier, because you are part of that problem."
A woman with a megaphone then urges the residents to "give up" their house, the footage shows.
"Give black people back their homes!" she yells. "You're sitting there comfortably — comfortable as f—k as if they didn't help gentrify this neighborhood! I used to live in this neighborhood, and my family was pushed out, and you're sitting up there having a good time with your other white friends!"
A second clip purportedly shows BLM demonstrators and Antifa members calling for white people to "get the f-k out" as others in the crowd call for reparations.
"Give us our s-t back!" one man yells.
Yet another clip apparently shot in the aftermath of the protest also shows demonstrators threatening a business owner who allegedly called cops to report that a window had been shattered at his business.
"You're being racist, you're being racist," a protester tells the unidentified white business owner. "Check your privilege, check your privilege."
The protester then tells the man to "go back to his gentrification business" while yelling profanities at him, the clip shows.
"This was never your neighborhood," the man's rant continues. "This was never your neighborhood."
The mask-clad white man then refuses to identify his business before being threatened as he walks away, the clip shows.
"Yeah, we'll make sure to support you," the protester continues. "Hey look, we don't know what happened, we ain't seen shit, we don't know shit. You better hope we don't find out though. That's not a threat."
"That's a promise," a second man then yells.
One of the protesters was then taken into custody for alleged vandalism as other Black Lives Matter demonstrators yell obscenities at cops, footage shows.
Seattle's police chief, Carmen Best, stepped down this week as the city council approved cutting the department by as many as 100 cops through layoffs and attrition. The city currently has some 1,400 officers and the reduction fell short of the 50 percent cut that many Black Lives Matter protesters had sought.
The city's mayor, Jenny Durkan, is also facing a legal battle to get her kicked out of office for her role in Seattle's violent protests, which started in June when demonstrators took over its Capitol Hill district and later renamed it the Capitol Hill Occupation Protest.
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Give me this. Give me that. Give me everything I want.
But keeping what you've been given will require more than just being offended.
Just a bunch of racists who hate white people. If they want to live in that area they need to get a job and buy a house there like everyone else did. They need to listen to their own hypocrisy as they rail against white people moving into black neighborhoods. These morons don't want Equality they don't even know what it means.
Ridiculous ...... but fair is fair i guess.
I want all my tax dollars back that paid for all the free shit that got handed to you slugs. There's your reparations but now i want it back. Hand it over.
What a bunch of worthless turds you are!
Just their next step, should not be a surprise
This might be why some want to ban guns, easier to take things if owners can't fight back
Yep, then the only people that will have the protection guns offer will be the people who want to ban them.
See how that shit works?
Keep your Guns loaded because these people have proven time and again that if you don't give them what they want they get violent and they'll take it, and if they can't take it they'll burn it.
Once again, people here who support blm show a complete ambivalence towards actions like this by not responding to this article.
Amazing.
come and try to take it
I am getting sick of this shit. If this story is true, then I say to the homeowners do what you have to do to protect what is yours.