A Black director and CEO out of Cleveland, Ohio, has been censored by YouTube for a short film he made criticizing the antics of Black Lives Matter and detailing the aftermath of their destruction.

Darvio Morrow lived the real-time consequences of the Black Lives Matter riots. He watched as the organization took advantage of the legitimate grievances of his fellow residents and turned them into money-making schemes and political power plays. The result was to help plunge the city into a new era of rising crime and declining law enforcement, re-victimizing the very people the organization was purporting to help.

Naturally, he was thrilled when a group producing a YouTube series about the aftermath of Black Lives Matter riots across the nation contacted him to help direct and produce an episode focusing on Cleveland.

From the BLM Aftermath website:

“In perhaps one of the greatest messaging coups of all time, the Black Lives Movement Global Network Foundation (BLMGNF) – an international effort funded by some of the most powerful and wealthy leftists admittedly steeped in the Marxist playbook – took the true statement that black lives matter and used it to create chaos and destroy the livelihoods of the very people it was professing to help.”

Morrow even went so far as to have one of the artists he produces on the music side of his business provide an original song for the piece. Ironically, it was turning out to be everything BLM tried to do but failed at — a triumph of Black creativity and entrepreneurship.

Apparently, YouTube isn’t as keen on supporting Black artists…not if those artists aren’t toeing the line on social justice. When the video dropped mere days ago, it began to rack up views quickly, but Morrow and his partners noticed something funny. There was an “age restriction” warning on the video. This means that it won’t autoplay on third-party platforms like Twitter or Instagram, and there is no image visible when shared. That is basically the death knell for a visual artist. Not only do the lack of autoplay and visuals discourage people from clicking on the video, they also act as a red flag. Many people will simply assume the images are horrific or pornographic and decide just not to follow up at all.

Perhaps it would be one thing if those images were horrific or pornographic, but Morrow’s documentary used clips from security camera footage, social media platforms, and news reports, all aired on YouTube. None of them had age restrictions. In fact, as of publication of this article, YouTube is still hosting the original video clips without the warnings. Morrow’s video that simply collects those clips into one place is still being weighed down by the warning.

Here is BLM Aftermath: Cleveland

And here are the videos used within the short documentary.

These were the director’s resources. Yet his video is the only one that gets the age restriction warning. Coincidentally, it is his video that is critical of the Black Lives Matter organization. Morrow says that’s no accident.

“It’s ridiculous that they would put an age restriction on this video when footage of the BLM riots and worse are freely available on YouTube without restriction. Our video is black leaders in a majority black city telling their story, their way, in their voices. I can’t help but wonder if the real problem is what’s being said and who is saying it.”

One can’t help but wonder, indeed.

YouTube still has not responded to Morrow’s inquiries about his censorship as of the time this article was published.

*Disclosure: Darvio Morrow is the CEO of FBC Radio, which produces my podcast Just Listen to Yourself.