African-American Professor Carol Swain Slams Black Lives Matter

CNN’s Michael Smerconish asked Swain, along with civ­il rights attor­ney Areva Martin, to com­ment on the con­ser­v­a­tive web­site Drudge Report’s deci­sion to lead the home­page with the title “Black Lives Kill” fol­low­ing the shoot­ing of police offi­cers in Dallas. The head­line was quick­ly pulled down.

“Is this the end of the Black Lives Matter move­ment?” Smerconish asked.

“I cer­tain­ly hope so,” Swain, a law pro­fes­sor at Vanderbilt University, respond­ed on CNN’s “Smerconish.” “Because I believe that it’s been a very destruc­tive force in America, and I urge all of your view­ers to go to that web­site and look at what they’re real­ly about. It’s a Marxist orga­ni­za­tion all about black lib­er­a­tion. It’s not real­ly address­ing the real prob­lems affect­ing African-Americans and so it’s prob­lem­at­ic, it’s mis­lead­ing black peo­ple, it needs to go.”

Martin, who sup­ports the move­ment, jumped on Swain’s remarks.