Russia exploited the racial divisions driven by groups like Black Lives Matter

NY Times:

Black Lawmakers Hold a Particular Grievance With Facebook: Racial Exploitation

Sheryl Sandberg’s meeting on Thursday with the Congressional Black Caucus afforded lawmakers a chance to vent over Russia’s exploitation of racial division.
I am not making excuses for Russia's misconduct in the election.  I am against racial exploitation.  But I do think the racial grievance industry in this country exploits it all the time.  Black Lives Matter grew out of the Ferguson "hands up, don't shoot" lie.  I have not heard the Congressional Black Caucus push back against this lie even though it has led to a spate of cop killings.  There is no serious argument that it was not a lie coming out of Ferguson. 

The Obama DOJ spent great resources and could find no support for the lie and found many black witnesses who said it never happened.  Yet this lie not only propelled cop killing it has led to more black on black crime as police pulled back from community policing which had suppressed the murder rate.  It is also leading to the self-destruction of the NFL by players who believe the lie.

It is not clear to me why the media and the CBC are not pushing back on this lie.  It is doing far more damage to blacks in this country than anything the Russians tried to do.

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