(Faithwire) A leader for the Black Lives Matter movement said Wednesday he believes Jesus “is the most famous black radical revolutionary” during the same interview in which he said wants “black sovereignty by any means necessary.”
Hawk Newsome, head of Black Lives Matter of Greater New York, told Fox News anchor Martha MacCallum he wants to “burn down the system” if the country “doesn’t give us what we want.”
When MacCallum asked him about his comfortability with using violence to advance his cause, Newsome told her the U.S. “is built upon violence” and likened it to “self defense.”
“It seems to be the hypocrisy of America that when black people start talking about arming themselves and defending themselves, the talk is violent, but when white people grab assault rifles and go to our nation state capitals, it’s all good,” he said.