@joepyeweed :
@tntrecycling :You are assuming the Black Lives Matter political campaign all have "scratchy backgrounds" right here. I completely agree with you about people checking their past before putting themselves out there as a figurehead.

Checking their past, in one thing, but being actively criminal is another.I am all for letting people put their past behind them.... even the felon who pled guilty to bribing government officials, that is now in charge of raising money for Trump's general election campaign. The past is the past. ;-)

Top Black Lives Matter ringleader arrested for sick sex crimes - So this would not affect his organization.
What some do in their past some times comes back to haunt them later in life.

Pimping a 17 year old and being an organizer for Black Lives Matter are not one and the same. Nor does it say anything about the BLM movement. The guy may be a scum bag in his private life, but it doesn't mean other people who may have a similar attitude concerning BLM are also scum bags.

@lanestar7 :got a link to that Ken Starr comment? I don't believe it's factual.

Let's face it the BLM movement is just another Race Baiting Organization created simply cause more racial separation.

@carguyRace baiting? Really? They are raising awareness about police brutality and systematic racism. If you have a knee-jerk reaction when you hear the phrase 'black lives matter' to say 'all lives matter' then you miss the point entirely.

Kenneth Star was not being arrested for sex crimes. He is being fired from his job as president of Baylor university for ignoring charges of sexual assault by students at his university.A man who was made famous as a special prosecutor who pursued impeaching the president of the united states for attempting to hide consensual sex, is now ironically being accused of looking the other way at actual sexual assault to protect a football team. www.thedailybeast.co m/articles/2016/05/2 5/is-kenneth-starr-h istoric-sleazeb

@Christinam :Race baiting IS exactly what they do pure and simple. This group and other like it, such as the Black Panthers have caused more racial division then they have even attempted to prevent. Without the Media hype they get they would have disappeared before anybody even knew they existed. They create racial unrest, contribute to further crimes and looting. Are they all bad, probably not but like any other group that causes all the problems this one has/does it's easy to see their goals.

I suppose MLK was just some rabble-rousing looter, too.

@carguyYou should really stop watching fox news. The black panther party was a group that practiced self defense against police brutality also. They were involved in helping their own communities. BLM does not contribute to crime. You should look at you're own white privilege.

@Christinam :Typical handholding response, I expected as much. After all it is Peoria, the Kingdom of Ghetto wanna be Thugs.

@CarguyTypical middle aged white guy response. Some people wouldn't recognize their white privilege if it was riding shotgun with 'em through Pekin at sunset. Lemme guess... Your best friend is black, your sister adopted a crack baby, your cousin dates black guys, and your parents had a black family living in the duplex next door?

@Rixblix :None of the above. But your reasoning and response show your obvious lack of intelligence and/or wisdom. Just because you don't accept History and the truth about a person, doesn't make it untrue. My guess from reading some of your posts is this, You are a very unhappy person that enjoys nothing more then to try to create an issue out of nothing so you can create Drama.

Black life's matter or KKK has the same reputation. When you put on a hood and no one can tell who you are. The only difference is you wouldn't see a black man in the KKK.