Polls have estimated that between 15 million and 26 million people have participated at some point in the demonstrations in the United States, making them the largest protests in United States history. It was also estimated that between May 26 and August 22, around 93% of protests were "peaceful and nondestructive".[13][14] According to several studies and analyses, protests have been overwhelmingly peaceful. In protests that involved violence, violence was variously instigated by protesters, counter-protesters...

Antifa is a left-wing anti-fascist and anti-racist political movement in the United States. As a highly decentralized array of autonomous groups, antifa uses both nonviolent and violent direct action to achieve its aims, Unfortunately, when they do give, they are likely to fund a number of extreme groups created by devoted Marxists whose aim aren't to make the American Dream a reality for everyone, but to radically alter America.

Some of the world's most well-known corporations, which have hopped on the BLM bandwagon, may be unaware of this. Direct donations have been offered by companies such as Airbnb and Spanx.

True, companies like Nike and Netflix have wisely directed their donations to groups like the NAACP and others that have led the civil rights movement for decades. These businesses are probably aware of BLM's extremist aim and are hesitant to fund damaging ideals. However, learning this takes some detective work.

Companies who refuse to put in the effort are giving cover to a harmful movement and forcing their employees, shareholders, and consumers to support it. BLM leaders Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, and Opal Tometi can attest to this. "Myself and Alicia in particular are skilled organizers," Cullors remarked in a 2015 interview. "We are Marxists by training." Tometi was in Venezuela with Marxist dictator Nicolás Maduro the same year, writing of his regime: "In these last 17 years, we have seen the Bolivarian Revolution advocate participatory democracy and establish a fair, transparent electoral system acknowledged as among the best in the world."

Millions of Venezuelans who have been victims of Maduro's deadly regime were likely unable to be reached for comment.

The first frame you see when you go to the Black Lives Matter website is of a massive throng with fists raised and the phrase "Now We Transform." When you read the list of demands, you can get a sense of the magnitude of the change they want to see.

"By supporting one other as extended families and 'villages' that jointly care for one another, we undermine the Western-prescribed nuclear-family-structure necessity," one declares.

The Movement for Black Lives, or M4BL, is a partner group that advocates for the abolition of all police and prisons. It also asks for "progressive tax reform at the municipal, state, and federal levels to achieve a dramatic and long-term redistribution of wealth."

"The retroactive legalization, immediate release, and record ­expungement of all drug-related charges and prostitution, as well as restitution for the terrible consequences of the 'war on drugs' and criminalization of prostitution," according to another M4BL demand.

Most individuals didn't sign up for this agenda when they bought their Spanx or joined for Airbnb. It's also not what most people meant when they expressed support for the phrase "Black Lives Matter."

On the day George Zimmerman was acquitted of killing Trayvon Martin, Garza invented the term in a Facebook post on July 14, 2013. Her pal Cullors added the hashtag to the front and connected the phrases together so that it could be shared on social media. Tometi came up with the idea for BlackLivesMatter.com, a real-life internet platform.

According to Robert Stilson of the Capital Research Center, the group became a self-styled worldwide network in 2014 and a "fiscally funded initiative" of a different progressive charity in 2016. This transformation has aided the advancement of a far more ambitious objective than #DefundthePolice.

The aims of the Black Lives Matter movement are significantly more ambitious than most people believe. But they're hidden in plain sight, right in front of our eyes, if we look past the slogans and the seemingly benign media portrayals of the movement.

The radical Marxist aim of the organization would replace the family as society's primary building block with the state and demolish the economic system that has lifted more people out of poverty than any other. The lives of black people, as well as all people, would be jeopardized.

Theirs is a plan for pain rather than justice. It has to be turned down.