Little was known about Peggy Hubbard before on Thursday.
But her Facebook video tongue-lashing #BlackLiveMatter protesters in St Louis,
the United States, has made the African-American Illinois woman an instant
celebrity.
The protesters took to the streets on Wednesday to
march for an 18-year-old boy who was shot by the Police.
But Hubbard said the protesters abused
#BlackLivesMatter, an hashtag dedicated for fighting injustice against the
black, by fighting for criminals rather than standing up for those who truly
suffered injustice.
In the video, which has gone viral on Facebook,
YouTube, Twitter and other social media platform, Hubbard said the mother of a
nine-year old girl killed by a stray bullet deserved a solidarity and not
teenagers “who did not listen and die by the gun.”
At 9pm on Sunday, the original Facebook post by
Hubbard recorded 6.2 million views 280,000 shares, 62,000 likes and 14,500 comments.
A repost of
the same six-minute video hit Facebook on Friday. In the past three days, the
duplicated copy has recorded more views. It has recorded 6.23 million views but
fewer comments, shares and likes. Put together, post by Hubbard has polled
approximately 12.5 million views.
If Hubbard’s From
my Heart video were a country, it would be more populous than Sweden or
Finland and Denmark combined. And by 2006 population census, it would be bigger
than the combined population of Ekiti, Yobe, Taraba, Ebonyi, Nasarawa and
Bayelsa states.
It is incredible when you put the figures of views
from YouTube and other platforms plus the shares together.
This is a transcript of the six-minute video brought
the entire world together at the weekend, “Last night, who do you think they
protested for? The thug, the criminal, because they’re howling, ‘police
brutality.’ Are you kidding me? Police brutality? How about black brutality.
“A little girl is dead. You say black lives matter?
Her life mattered. Her dreams mattered. Her future mattered. Her promises
mattered. It mattered.
“You are out there tearing up the neighborhood I
grew up in. I was born and raised there by a single mother with eight kids. She
raised eight kids by herself and lost one, one. That boy did not listen and
died by the gun.
“You want to be upset about black lives? You want to
be upset about police brutality? There is police brutality out there. I will
give you that. But night, after night, after night on Channel 4, Channel 2,
Channel 5, Channel 30, Channel 11 and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch: murder,
murder, murder, murder. Black on black murder.
“Yet you tear up other people’s (stuff) for a
criminal, a thug. Bailing out criminals and thugs.
Let me tell you something. I got a kid locked up. Oh
yeah, I put him there. I turned him in. Yes I did because I’m a strong black
woman. I am a black mother. I told my children that if you (mess) up, if you go
to jail, I am not getting you out. You will stay there. You will do the time. I
am not coming to visit you. I ain’t sending you magazines. I’m not doing
anything for you because I did everything… If you don’t care about me and your
father working and putting in time and effort to raise you and be there for
you. And we took note of everything you were interested in. And you ended up in
there. Then you belong in there. Don’t drop the soap. That is what I told my
son.
“You guys need to stop. You’re hollering this black
lives matters (stuff). It don’t matter. You’re killing each other. White people
don’t care. They don’t care. Save us some tax dollars. I need new parts for my
Harley. If you want to die, die. Go ahead and knock yourself out. Your life
does not matter. If it doesn’t matter to you then it doesn’t matter to us. That
is the truth of the reality. If you don’t care then we don’t care.
“Why should we go out and protest for your ass? You
broke the law. You’re carrying another stolen gun. You’re yelling “F” the
police. “F” you. You’re shooting at the police. Police drops your ass. Poor ‘so
and so’ he died due to police brutality. 127 homicides later… Y’all want to
holler ‘police brutality’? You’re tearing up communities over thugs and
criminals. You’re putting plaques in the ground over somebody who would not
stop. He had a chance to stop. How many times is someone going to tell you to
stop doing that (stuff) before they do something to you?
“Do you think the police are out here for fun? Do
you think they’re out here for games? They’re not going to tuck you in. They’re
not going to give you a cookie and sing you a lullaby. No, they’re going to pop
a cap in your ass. You shoot at them and they’re going to shoot at you. If you
try to kill them, their job is saved and protect, not serve and die.”
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