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In March 2021 it was reported that Black Lives Matter leader Terry Joe Wilson, a white man who allegedly is a faculty member at Boise State University and the school’s Black Lives Matter chapter spokesman, was arrested for smearing paint and feces on a statue of Abraham Lincoln.<ref>https://www.toddstarnes.com/crime/black-lives-matter-leader-vandalizes-abraham-lincoln-statue-using-feces/</ref> Abraham Lincoln signed the [[Emancipation Proclamation]] in 1863, freeing the slaves.
In March 2021 it was reported that Black Lives Matter leader Terry Joe Wilson, a white man who allegedly is a faculty member at Boise State University and the school’s Black Lives Matter chapter spokesman, was arrested for smearing paint and feces on a statue of Abraham Lincoln.<ref>https://www.toddstarnes.com/crime/black-lives-matter-leader-vandalizes-abraham-lincoln-statue-using-feces/</ref> Abraham Lincoln signed the [[Emancipation Proclamation]] in 1863, freeing the slaves.
==Criticism==
[[File:BLM-Women's March.png|right|300px|thumb|[[Black Lives Matter|BLM]] / [[Women's March]] [[misogynist]]s beat a female Trump supporter.<ref>Two references:*[https://nationalfile.com/exclusive-trump-supporter-hospitalized-by-black-lives-matter-thugs-at-womens-march/ EXCLUSIVE: Trump Supporter Hospitalized By Black Lives Matter Thugs At Women’s March]<br>*[https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/10/womens-marchers-rally-womens-rights-washington-dc-stomp-beat-choke-punch-female-trump-supporter/ Women’s Marchers Rally for Women’s Rights in Washington DC — Then Stomp, Beat, Choke and Punch Female Trump Supporter]</ref>]]
Critics ask why Black lives only matter when they are taken by a white person, but not when a Black person is murdered by another Black person, and if that isn't [[discrimination]]. Many African American critics and victims of [[crime]] refer to the organization as Black Lies Matter due to its lack of concern over innocent child murder victims of random violence and drive-by shootings in Black neighborhoods.
In July, 2021 BLM came under fire for supporting oppressive cruel Cuban regime.<ref>[https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/marxist-black-lives-matter-cuba-communists-marion-smith Marion Smith: Marxist Black Lives Matter – here's why it supports Cuba's communists over the protesters]
''BLM cares more about advancing Marxism than protecting Black and Brown people.''
Marion Smith, Fox News, July 19 2021</ref><ref>[https://www.telegraaf.nl/nieuws/1169239980/black-lives-matter-onder-vuur-om-steun-aan-cubaans-politiegeweld Black Lives Matter under fire for supporting 'Cuban police brutality'] Telegraaf.nl,
July 16, 2021.
''In the US, a storm of criticism has erupted against Black Lives Matter (BLM) as the movement appears to have sided with the Cuban communist regime in the protests in Cuba...''
https://mobile.twitter.com/telegraaf/status/1415975118636044293</ref><ref name=ridge/>
Even a lefty criticized the BLM stand in face of rampant anti black racism in Cuba and that the main victims in the 2021 [Libertad] uprising have been disproportionately blacks. And that the BLM have only used Cuba.<ref>[https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/07/black-lives-matter-misses-point-about-cuba/619471/ Black Lives Matter Misses the Point About Cuba], Jorge Felipe Gonzalez, ''The Atlantic'', July 17, 2021.
The country is not an empty canvas onto which Americans can project their political ideas.</ref>
==Organization and history==
==Organization and history==