The Gantt Report
By Lucius Gantt
About a month or so ago, I was in Tallahassee, Florida to take care of some banking business and to visit a few friends.
I was sitting on the porch at Perkâs Bonding Agency waiting on my friend Billy Perkins who was taking a phone call inside his office.
Suddenly, a stringy haired, hippie looking dude rolled up to me on a bicycle and said, âWeâre having a march on the Florida Capitol and we want everyone in the Black community to show up!â
âPersonally, I donât relish marchingâ, I replied. âWhy?â, the modern-day overseer asked.
I said, âI came up during the times of The Weathermen, The SDS and The Black Federation Alliance. Others marched but they blew stuff up!â
Today, âBlack Lives Matterâ folk are getting credit for many, many things both good and bad.
I donât know what the BLM strategy is. I donât know what the BLM plan is. I donât know what the BLM goals are for African Americans that continue to be oppressed, exploited and played!
I know every day someone is representing BLM on network news where they give sound bites rather than sound advice to the masses of Black people.
But thatâs OK. We all have our roles in efforts to bring about justice, peace, equality, and progress. The roles of youthful activists are, in most cases, different from the roles of the worldâs Black elders that have been through freedom rides, armed struggles, and vigorous opposition movements. They have been there, done that and have their Black Panther T-shirts!
Right now, the majority of BLM supporters and sympathizers are being falsely accused of being anarchists, terrorists, outlaws and hoodlums instead being peaceful protestors.
The devil is tricky. Orange satan is trying to make peaceful protestors look like criminals and unidentified dictatorial militia members look like defenders and protectors!
Nationalist, supremacist, and race hating law enforcers have always been infiltrators in progressive Black organizations. SCLC was infiltrated. The Nation of Islam was infiltrated. And, The Black Panthers were infiltrated, for examples.
If you donât know, there are infiltrators in Black Lives Matter too!
Who tried to break out windows at  Atlantaâs CNN headquarters with a skateboard, who set an Atlanta Wendyâs fast food restaurant on fire and who was riding around on a beat-up bicycle in in Tallahassee trying to get Blacks to provide cover for Trump supporters that desire to incite police violence against Black people?
Young people, donât be fooled by puppets and pirates dressed in protest clothing asking you to provoke the police into using deadly force on you.
Donât go to sleep and dream that the Boogaloo Brothers and Proud Boys that put on a BLM t-shirt and encourage you to commit violent acts are your helpers and benefactors.
They are the devilish perpetrators that would put âMoms For Justiceâ in the cross-hairs of secret police armed with tear gas, pepper spray, automatic weapons and Blackhawk helicopters!
In a march or rally attended by thousands of people opposed to police violence and murder only a small, small number of people are encouraging you to violate laws, damage property and challenge people with weapons of mass murder.
If you want to believe in something, believe in God, believe in yourself and have faith in the Black people that risked their lives, risked their careers and stood up and spoke out for you and your community for years and years and years!
If you donât, youâre not headed for progress, youâre headed for self-destruction.
