I'm confused by people who aren't able to distinguish any of the many organizations (very loosely defined, and some grifts themselves!) that have Black Lives Matter in their name from the words "Black Lives Matter."
There's also a lot of people who can distinguish it but choose not to.
I wonder if the confusion has anything to do with the words being exactly the same.
I'm sure it is for people who don't know anything about what an organization is or how one comes to be, or for those who want to feign confusion.
I dug deep into this a few months back when I saw news stories here that said "Black Lives Matter" was suing the city and wondered how a concept can sue. I pulled the case and saw what "Black Lives Matter" actually was in that context, a small local nonprofit that came to be for tax-exemption purposes, legal qualifications like that suit, shielding from personal liability, etc. Looking it up on the SOS site, I found there are a number of such groups just in this state alone. For obvious reasons, they all like to profess that they
are Black Lives Matter.
Then there's the group that got the best website name, and the one that Dax cryptically refers to with its 16 chapters (none of which are the local crew purporting to be Black Lives Matter and suing with that name). Looks like they've removed the chapter list since I looked before and now there's reference to 40 chapters. Overall they purport to be a "network."
Any of us could start our own Black Lives Matter group that would stand for whatever we say it does. Nobody controls the term. But normal people can know that it simply means that Black lives matter too.
The wikipedia page does a great job explaining all this.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Lives_Matter