It usually takes a few years for a social movement devoted to revolutionary change to sell out and corrupt itself, inevitably ending in futility and disgrace. This one happened in the blink of an eye.
The people who took it upon themselves to register the hash tag as some kind of legal organization and start collecting money. And paying themselves a salary.
These people are crooks from the gate. They only ever intended to enrich themselves.
The philosophical concept of Black Lives Matter is still as strong as ever. Its true. And I'm a Black motherfukcer who has to live in this sick ass world.
So its just splitting hairs to conflate
the human garbage who seeks to profit off of misery
[shady people who collect donations and pocket them. The "BLM" organization of whatever type]
with the ideal that ordinary individuals are fighting to achieve by protesting and speaking out
[the statement that we matter and we gonna show y'all we matter. Black Lives Matter]