Naked Capitalism has the article Glen Ford and Bruce Dixon on #BlackLivesMatter and the Black Misleadership Class.

They’ve also coined the expression “black misleadership class” to describe politicians who’ve traded on their own personal branding, as blacks who presumably would defend the interests of other blacks and members of minority groups, and instead have served as operatives for the rich and powerful.

Obama a classic of this type.

Some of what is said in the article goes further in explaining Ford and Dixon than anything you will see in the featured video. Especially the details of what they mean by “Black Misleadership Class.”

Here is but one, novel, at least to me, idea from the video.

I think that the most immediate kind of demand that this movement should have–this is my opinion, and the opinion of others with whom I work–is the demand of black community control of the police. That is the logic so far of the activity that has gone on in this incipient, emergent kind of campaign.

But that’s just my little contribution, and other folks’ contribution to the dialog that ought to be ongoing. What is not a demand is just asking people to say the magic words, yes, black lives matter.

If you think that “All lives matter” is the answer to “Black Lives matter”, then the article and the video will blow you away. On your return trip to earth, you might enjoy the ride down by calmly contemplating some of the ideas here. (Quietly contemplating doesn’t have to mean agreeing, but it might include agreeing.)