Responding to Common Arguments Against Black Lives Matter
15 min readAug 2, 2020
Roughly three weeks ago Black Lives Matter protesters gathered at Grey’s Monument in Newcastle, near where I live, as part of the activism sparked by the murder of George Floyd. Not long into the day a ‘counter-protest’ turned up calling themselves ‘Defenders of Newcastle’ who said they were there to stop BLM protesters taking down the statue of Charles Earl Grey. Grey was prime minister…