They're seriously gonna try to defend this guy!
REALLY??
Melina Abdullah, a former California State University professor and police abolitionist who co-founded BLM Los Angeles, said Smollett — who is accused of faking a racist, homophobic hate crime against himself — "has been courageously present, visible, and vocal in the struggle for Black freedom."
"As abolitionists, we approach situations of injustice with love and align ourselves with our community. Because we got us," Abdullah said in a statement on the website for the BLM movement's national arm, the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation.
If I run this through a wokespeak translator, it basically comes out to, "We only care if you look and think like us, so truth and justice don't matter."
Can you imagine an organization called "White Lives Matter" attempting to say a man is not guilty of fraud because he's been "vocal in the struggle for white freedom"?
Doesn't sound so good, does it?
"So let's be clear: we love everybody in our community. It's not about a trial or a verdict decided in a white supremacist charade, it's about how we treat our community when corrupt systems are working to devalue their lives," said Abdullah, who is currently director of BLM Grassroots, a "Defund the Police" group.
The only person who has devalued Jussie Smollett's life is Jussie Smollett.
"In an abolitionist society, this trial would not be taking place, and our communities would not have to fight and suffer to prove our worth," she continued. "Instead, we find ourselves once again being forced to put our lives and our value in the hands of judges and juries operating in a system that is designed to oppress us, while continuing to face a corrupt and violent police department who has proven time and again to have no respect for our lives."
So... does an "abolitionist society" not care about justice at all?
Like, if a man conned a bunch of people out of millions of dollars, or shot someone in the face, would an "abolitionist society" not hold him responsible for hurting others as long as his skin was sufficiently dark enough?
Abdullah said members of the BLM and Defund the Police movements "can never believe police," especially the Chicago Police Department, over a Black man like Smollett.
Ah, yes. The notorious white-supremacist city of Chicago, with this current mayor:
And this current police chief:
