> you would think they would cynically propose a soft spoken figurehead who says inspirational things

Oh, but they did, just not from their own ranks.

Think about that. Who, among the entire political spectrum in the US, promises to the America's middle class and end to hostilities, a sense of harmony, and a partial absolution of the white guilt?

Hint: it's not one person but rather a team of two.

> Since BLM is an org with such “expertise” in what white people think, you would think they would cynically propose a soft spoken figurehead who says inspirational things. Instead, we get adversarial confrontation on the “fact” that all white people are racist and only white and white adjacent people can be racist. This is idiotic marketing strategy. You’d think they would avoid antagonizing their customer if they were serious about positive change.

Wow. You really are a racist. Or at least an authoritarian on some level.

You want people of color to convince you - a task of which is not theirs to fulfill - that they should have basic social rights in the US. You then refuse to be convinced because they aren't 'being nice' about it?

How on earth is fighting for social and civil rights a task of political suppression? BLM represents a bloc that has been disincentivised from voting from the founding of America until 2020.

Something screams authoritarian, and it certainly isn't protesting.

I think comparisons to the civil rights movements of the past are valid and I agree that current movements compare unfavorably to the past ones.

I'll just repeat that I think it's a significant mistake to make analogies to Nazis or Maoists.