Highland, glad to hear the story
Locally, there has been ongoing BLM protests in our larger town and a few of the smaller ones in our county. Some have been ongoing for weeks but they are basically local folks holding up signs during rush hour and have caused no problems. The police have had conversations with them and are ok with what they are doing as far as I can tell. I have no problem with peaceful orderly protests even if I disagree with them.
We have an issue in our church as one of our campus pastors participated in a BLM protest. Not sure if it was sanctioned as a church activity or not but apparently it caused a problem. We are meeting with our campus pastor on Tuesday to find out what the churches position is on BLM. Note the pastor in question is black.
In advance of the meeting, I decided to research what BLM is all about. I would suggest doing that if you haven't already. While they don't advocate violence, they have major supporters that do and have participated in violence. It also has an undertone that violence is ok in certain instances. they also say there is a systemic racism in police departments especially against black men to mention a few points.
While I have witnessed black people being profiled and harassed for no reason other then being black and believe they get the short end of the stick often and believe changes need to be made, I cannot back the BLM movement and hope my church does not. If they do, I will be looking for a new church.
IN doing my research, there is still a Civil Rights Movement that is advocating for change the correct way through legislation and voting