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The End of an Era That Never Should Have Been

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The last vestiges of a curse that America endured for too long is now uprooted and tossed out. 

The "Black Lives Matter Plaza" in D.C. is now gone, replaced with normalcy, like the last scab of a wound falling off after taking way too long to heal. As you can see from this report from TPUSA, the street that once had "BLACK LIVES MATTER" in bold yellow letters painted on it is now gone and repaved. 

This is a great moment for America, but not just for America. This is also a great moment for the black community. 

We all watched Black Lives Matter destroy, assault, and sometimes murder its way across America. It infected everything from video games to sporting events. It inflamed racial tensions in America unnecessarily, and to this day, some cities are still suffering from its depleted police force thanks to the "defund the police" movement that sprang up within it. It doesn't help that a trend of shoplifting became popular as well, something that was excused by BLM as "reparations." 

America suffered because of Black Lives Matter, and it still feels the aftershocks. 

But the black community probably suffered the most from Black Lives Matter. Many of the riots and a lot of the destruction happened in predominantly black areas. Many of the people who died as a result of the riots were black. 

And after it was all said and done, what did the black community in America gain? The BLM riots that took place around 2020 was a result of the drug addict and career criminal George Floyd dying from a drug overdose while an officer was blamed because he had his knee on him... yet, did Floyd's family see a substantial amount of money. As one man points out, millions were raised, but what happened to it? 

We know exactly what happened to it. 

As the man in the video notes, Black Lives Matter's leadership, an openly Marxist group of people, made off like bandits. 

Patrice Cullors, in particular, went on an expensive home buying splurge in predominantly white neighborhoods, causing massive backlash among even Black Lives Matter members, many of whom she left behind to pick up the pieces and deal with the government fallout. 

There are going to be many people out there who truly believe that Black Lives Matter was a necessary event in American history and that some real good came from it, but the only good that really did happen as a result was the death of Black Lives Matter, and what I would mark as the beginning of the collapse of the race baiter's long-standing grift. 

While it still exists, it's definitely not as powerful as it once was, and you can see grifters on major networks losing their jobs. Black Lives Matter taking things as far as it did result in a lot of this collapse. While this is a great thing, the ruined lives it left behind are still ruined. The dead are still dead. 

Still, it's good that we're finally shaking this era off in its entirety, at least in terms of public celebration or recognition. It's a dark mark in American history, and what's more, all of this was cheered on by the same left that clutches pearls over January 6. There is no equivalency here. Black Lives Matter was a movement that fueled division, hate, and destruction to a point where few people felt safe in areas across America. 

Even the black community saw a surge of gun purchases around that time, showing that they didn't know if their town, their block, or their neighborhood was next.

This is a chapter that should never repeat, and we should do our absolute best to learn from it so as never to make this mistake again. 

That mistake wasn't just buying into the racial division, it was allowing those who profited off it to take advantage of our minds and hearts. If anything should be understood, it's that there are entire political parties, activist groups, and individuals, that are more than happy to destroy everything for their own personal gain, and they need to be recognized.  

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