Juneteenth has come and gone, with the media tripping over itself to highlight the various commemorations. But one group without quite as much to celebrate is the remnants of the Black Lives Matter movement. The “official” organization representing BLM has seen its revenue stream drop by nearly 90% as compared to two years earlier. On top of that, according to the most recent polling from Pew, public support for BLM has dropped to the lowest levels recorded since the group’s founding. To their credit, there is still a majority of people willing to say they “support” BLM, but just barely. 51% of respondents claimed to support the group, down from 67% during the BLM riots during the summer of 2020. 46% said they “oppose” BLM. (Just the News)

As the government observes Juneteenth as a holiday Monday for the third straight year, support for the Black Lives Matter movement has plummeted significantly as black Americans grapple with rising urban crime and stubborn inflation and grow pessimistic about racism in the future…

Just 51% of U.S. adults say they support the Black Lives Matter movement, which is the lowest percentage since Pew Research Center started asking the question in 2017. Support for the movement was at an all-time high of 67% in June 2020 during the height of the George Floyd protests.

More people are opposed to the BLM movement than ever before, with 46% against it, the Pew survey released last week showed.

If you are among the diminishing number of people who are still sending money to BLM, I would sincerely like to congratulate you. I’m confident that you have a much bigger heart and a more generous soul than any of the people who will wind up pocketing your cash. And money was the primary reason that people immediately began growing suspicious of BLM, to begin with. Right from the start, less than a third of the money they took in wound up going to other charitable organizations. And the multimillion-dollar mansion that Patrisse Cullors wound up with didn’t help matters.

At this point, it appears that the majority of the money BLM is still taking in comes from corporations who started donating in 2020 and are still doing so out of habit. These include IBM, Cisco, Microsoft, and Peloton, among others. (If you happen to be a stockholder, you might consider bringing this up during the next open comments period.)

There were a couple of other interesting items in the most recent poll. For one thing, a majority (61%) say that BLM has not been effective in improving race relations. Another 57% said that BLM has not and will not lead to improving the lives of everyday Black people. Are either of these statistics surprising? I would argue that the entire concept of BLM was never about “improving race relations.” It was about revenge and attacking a law enforcement system that they were continually told was racist and harmful.

The final figure from the poll I wanted to highlight was the 51% of Black respondents who said that they expect race relations to get worse in America over the course of their lives. That seems like a rather depressing and confusing attitude to maintain after Juneteeth was made a federal holiday, the only Black Senator is on a national presidential campaign tour, and Black unemployment is currently at an all-time low.

We could launch into some sort of exploration of humanity’s history of tribalism, but what would be the point? The reality is that the country has clearly soured on BLM, but it’s not because racism is on the rise in America. It’s because we’re talking about an organization that became best known for violent riots and a reputation for corruption. If anything, BLM stokes racism rather than combatting it.