Black lives should matter just as much as any other lives. But, uh, harassing people and hurting businesses doesn't seem like a very effective way to get that message across. It appears that the BL Movement has been infiltrated by the same commie/fascist/anarchist elements that glom onto so many "progressive" causes.
Yes, you're right black lives should matter as much as others, thank you for agreeing. Civil disobedience is the only way progress has been made with regards to civil rights historically. The United States had to win a war to free the slaves, no real progress was made until the sit ins and bridge closures of the 60s, many people were unjustly jailed and murdered during this time. Now there is another movement and forgive me for not showing empathy for you being inconvenienced by having to read about the occasional protests given the price this country has had to pay historically to see progress.
Blocking traffic or access to a private business is not "civil disobedience." Civil disobedience is "the refusal to comply with certain laws or to pay taxes and fines, as a peaceful form of political protest." For example, refusing to ride at the back of a bus or comply with other segregation laws.
That's an important distinction, which you have evidently missed. I think it's fair to assume that a
lot of people in the BL Movement fail to grasp that distinction.
I have no idea why you put progressive in quotes, the only people who have politicized the Black Lives Matter movement are people on the right who are marginalizing the movement. There isn't a thing political about advancing race relations.
I put it in quotes because you are right, there is nothing inherently "progressive" about advocating for civil rights. And yet it's always the same "progressive" crowd doing the protesting - just a new cause, and it's always boils down to the same crazies with their underlying agendas: Occupy Wall Street, any number of "Green" movements, now Black Lives Matter. Are you telling me these are fundamentally different people? They're not. They're being supported and promoted by the same pack of professional agitators and protestors who flit from cause to cause. At root, they are communists/anarchists/fascists/hardcore socialists/etc.