On Thursday night, a BLM "rally" made its way to a gentrified neighborhood in Seattle and demanded that white people leave their homes and give them back to black people. Protestors are heard in the video shouting "We're coming for it. Reparation time!" and "Give black people back their homes. You're sitting there comfortably — comfortable as f— as if they didn't help gentrify this neighborhood."
"We're not quite to the French Revolution stage of dragging people out of their homes yet but we seem to be inching closer," observed writer John Sexton. "I wonder if this will catch on. The left is already comfortable going into suburban neighborhoods for protests (and with the vandalism) of elected officials homes. Singling out strangers seems like the next step. And it's worth noting that this isn't just harassment, it's explicitly racial harassment."
Mr. Sexton noted that the group also took its gentrification grievances to King County Councilmember, Girmay Zahilay.
"I say this land transfer stuff is really important," Mr. Zahilay said Wednesday. "One of the pieces of the Black Lives Matter demands is economic justice for black people (and) for indigenous people. That needs to look like land transfer, in my opinion, because land is wealth. Land gets you the facilities and the buildings that you need to take care of one another."
Girmay Zahilay is a Sudan-born Ethiopian-American politician and attorney who serves as a member of the King County Council from District 2 in Seattle, Washington. He was elected in 2019 and defeated longtime incumbent Larry Gossett.
At this rate, I wouldn't be surprised if the residents do leave their homes to complete the ultimate woke virtue signaling. #GIVEUSYOURHOUSE