Letter to the editor: What BLM really wants

In 2015, Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors said in an interview that she and co-founder Alicia Garza are “trained organizers … We are trained Marxists.” The BLM website reads like a communist manifesto, using terms like “comrades” and “communal networks.”

Cullors spent more than 10 years being mentored by Eric Mann, an avowed communist revolutionary who worked with Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn in the far-left radical groups Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and Weather Underground (WU), which the FBI declared a domestic terrorist group in 1969. Mann led a group of WU members in an attack on Harvard University in 1969, was charged with five criminal counts and served 18 months in prison.

Ayers and Dohrn formed WU, famous for its domestic terror campaign from 1969 through the 1970s that included riots and bombings, including the bombing of the Pentagon in 1972.

The BLM raised-fist logo was used by communist revolutionaries in Russia and Europe in the 1920s, and later by SDS.

Read about BLM’s vision: They are communists and want a Marxist America. I’ve never known an African American who supports communism, which is slavery of the mind and soul. An internet search reveals communist governments have killed up to 150 million of their own citizens since 1917.

If BLM achieves its goals, its slogan may become No Lives Matter — including yours.

Glenn Armocida

Oakmont