Jack Dorsey and Black Lives Matter: A Toxic Partnership

BLM, which quickly became, and remains, an intimidating force on our streets and college campuses, is explicit about its goals. After George Floyd’s death in the custody of Minneapolis police triggered the rioting, the group set up a petition, #DefundThePolice. “We call for an end to the systemic racism that allows this culture of corruption to go unchecked and our lives to be taken,” read the manifesto. “We call for a national defunding of police.”  

Patrisse Cullors, one of the three co-founders, admitted in an interview with Real News Network in 2015 that she and co-founder Alicia Garza are “trained Marxists” who are “super-versed on, sort of, ideological theories.” Cullors acknowledges her debt to Joanne Chesimard aka “Assata Shakur,” a black woman who murdered a white New Jersey State Trooper in 1973 and subsequently escaped from prison and resettled in Cuba. Cullors also calls black Communist revolutionary Angela Davis “one of my greatest teachers.” Ms. Garza, for her part, denounced capitalism at a Net Impact Conference in 2016 as the root of America’s social problems.

One would think that any businessman with an instinct for self-preservation would stay as far away as possible from this outfit. Yet many executives are doing the opposite. Brian Chesky, co-founder and CEO of online lodging service Airbnb, recently tweeted: “Black Lives Matter. We stand with those using their voices peacefully calling for justice, fairness and racial equality.” Tim Cook, CEO of Apple Inc., affirmed his support for Black Lives Matter by bringing in Apple Music to participate in BLM’s Black Out Tuesday event on June 2.