Black Lives Matter issued a statement in the wake of the shootings in Dallas. It was entitled The Black Lives Matter Network advocates for dignity, justice, and respect.

Some parts of the statement could be challenged, like this part:

Black activists have raised the call for an end to violence, not an escalation of it.

Rev. Jeff Hood, a pastor in Dallas was a leader at the protest yesterday and appeared on The Kelly File last night. I don’t know if he is officially associated with BLM, but the lines are murky and he certainly asserts the ideology of BLM. He said that in hindsight he may have used some different language during the march.

Via a megaphone he gave a shout out to “an old preacher that [he admired] tremendously, Jeremiah Wright” to which the crowd responded positively, and in a very good channeling of Rev. Wright he said: “Goddamn white America, Goddamn white America…white America’s a f***ing lie. I’m sick of the bodies of black and brown people being slaughtered in our streets.” Watch it here on Fox. So, at least from my perspective I can’t say that was a real effective call to end the violence.

However, most of the BLM statement is not objectionable, until you get to this part:

Yesterday’s attack was the result of the actions of a lone gunman. To assign the actions of one person to an entire movement is dangerous and irresponsible.

Now what could possibly be wrong with that? Don’t conservatives preach all the time about individual responsibility? We certainly do, but we’d really like Black Lives Matter to apply it to their own agenda: Not all cops are racists! Stop contributing to the false narrative! The logical result is the horrific violence like we saw in Dallas two days ago. But just to say that is to be racist, because any disagreement with their narrative is racist.

It’s unlikely Black Lives Matter will recognize this hypocrisy since it would conflict with their mission. BLM has staked its power on assigning the actions of individual police officers to all police officers.

BLM thrives on these unfortunate incidents and seeks to sensationalize every negative interaction with police as proving systemic racism. And why shouldn’t they? They’ve got the ear of the most powerful man in the world. President Obama is quick to confirm racism as the motive. On speaking after the Dallas shooting Obama said these incidents of arrest involving fatal police shootings are “symptomatic of larger racial disparities in America particularly within the justice department.” Obama is only too happy to assign bad behavior on the part of a handful of cops to all cops, on the part of one white person anywhere to all white people everywhere.

I think the solution is really as simple as this: Quit lying about every negative interaction blacks have with police. Not everything is about race. Once BLM and others who think like them reign in their exploitive rhetoric then we can start to have a respectful dialogue. So long as they insist that all cops are racist, and by extension all whites are racist, they are contributing to an increasingly incendiary atmosphere that builds walls, that legitimizes an environment where angry people feel justified in murdering police officers.