Quote Originally Posted by great_fire View Post
Troy Deeney seemed to be the most in favour, him and his girlfriend trademarked the the BLM shirt sleeve design.
It is true that they trademarked their BLM design, I suspect you are cynical of them for doing that. However, the reasoning seems to have been to prevent misuse of it rather than for-profit which seems like quite a reasonable one.

BLM was a spontaneous grassroots movement with no official leadership and lots of different groups loosely using the banner with lots of different strategies. It became apparent with time that while many people agreed with the overall anti-racist message, they didn't always agree with the leadership or tactics of all BLM groups, of which they usually had no connection to or control over.

People can't seem to wrap their heads around the idea that you can move away from the particular "brand", of BLM, but still care about and want to retain the sentiment originally behind it. I don't understand how people struggle so much with the idea and still bang on about the individual actions of random people loosely associated with BLM as though it somehow represents everyone who has ever muttered the term.

Is there anyone on this thread who would be willing to say they oppose the overall theme that black people should be treated equally and not suffer discrimination or abuse for the colour of their skin?