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    Erika D. Smith: In this Black Lives Matter family feud, we'll get transparency. But at what cost?

    by Erika D. Smith, Los Angeles Times Sep 09, 2022 5 minutes
    A demonstrator holds a placard reading "BLACK LIVES MATTER" during a protest near the location where Walter Wallace Jr., was killed by two police officers on Oct. 27, 2020, in Philadelphia.

    On Aug. 30, the venerable Pew Research Center released a report summing up the opinions of Black Americans, specifically our thoughts about racial inequality and the prospects for systemic social change.

    It found, among other things, that 4 in 10 of us believe Black Lives Matter has done "the most to help Black people in recent years."

    Just 17% named the NAACP. An additional 13% chose Black churches. Just 6% picked the Congressional Black Caucus. And a mere 3% pointed to the National Urban League.

    In fact, across all of the demographic subgroups Pew surveyed — the highly educated and the less educated, the rich and the poor, the left-leaning and the right-leaning, the registered and unregistered to vote — Black Lives Matter was their top choice.

    This, of course, was before the implosion.

    On Sept. 1, activists from the 26

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