In a Feb. 4 Instagram post, Eastern Illinois University's Office of Belonging, Access, and Engagement – formerly the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion – shared pictures of students raising the Black Lives Matter (BLM) flag on campus.
Sandra Asuncion, director of government affairs for the American Principles Project (APP), points out that February is meant to celebrate blacks who played an important role in America's history, and that does not describe BLM.
"Talk about Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks – all of that is fine, but a movement that's had a lot more violence than actual productivity I don't think should be something celebrated," Asuncion submits.
The BLM movement has seen multiple periods of increased activity since 2013, peaking in 2020 with protests against supposed police brutality and racism.
According to its own "herstory," #BlackLivesMatter was founded by three black women who prioritized normalizing sexual deviance, deconstructing the biblical definition of family, and emasculating strong, black men who identify as straight.
Noting a 2022 Pew Research poll that showed 70% of students strongly or somewhat strongly supported BLM, Asuncion says educators have been instrumental in that.
"They've been kind of at the forefront of the woke movement of pushing racial biases forward and these gender differences and how we need to be more woke, we need to be more inclusive," the APP spokesperson observes. "Really, it's just an inciteful language that doesn't educate anyone."
A 2020 poll from Monmouth University in California found a majority of Americans (70%) did not believe Black Lives Matter had improved race relations.
