A letter that Whittier Law School professor Patricia Leary wrote in response to a group of “concerned students” who chided her for wearing a Black Lives Matter T-shirt went viral.
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Reed said even at the peaceful Black Lives Matter gathering in Indianapolis there was one such individual, and she said those gathered politely escorted him out because that is not what the movement is about.
From rallies that’ve been held around WNY since the Dallas shooting almost a week ago, that’s exactly what’s happened. Ro said she met with Patricia Gallimore, Reno-Sparks NAACP president, and plans to work with her on future projects, including a July 22 rally in Sparks. “But recent events have left people across America asking hard questions about whether we are still a house divided”.
While appearing on Fox News this week to discuss racial tensions in America, NFL player Benjamin Watson asserted that young black men grow up knowing their “leash is a little bit shorter” with police, but stressed that is no excuse to disobey police officers’ commands. It culminated with what was, for all intents and purposes, a terrorist attack in Dallas, Texas, in which a mad gunman shot and killed five police officers who were on duty at a protest rally over the police-involved shootings.
After his meeting Wednesday, Obama said it would be key to repeat the “kind of respectful conversations we’ve had here” across the country. You don’t ask why: “you’re black”, said Cadet. At the same time, all Louisianans must make their voices heard in a constructive way that brings us closer together and makes true progress a reality.
How can we create unity if we continue to drive wedges between groups of people?
The meeting – which lasted over four hours – included Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards and Black Lives Matter activists DeRay Mckesson and Brittany Packnett. Mayors from Los Angeles, Newark, New Jersey, and Anaheim, California, also attended. From the administration, Attorney General Loretta Lynch joined the president.
“The challenge is how do we talk about both things at the same time without acting like we’re blaming the African American community for their victimization or that we’re assuming that all police are racially biased?”
Black Lives Matter* in Lansing did not hold back opinions on what they say is police brutality at today’s rally.
When we tell others they are wrong and attempt to invalidate their opinion, we are actually destroying what this country is supposed to be, a melting pot of ideas, beliefs, cultures and most importantly people.
Based on the seating arrangements, that’s probably not a surprise – activists sat between police chiefs and mayors, the head of the Fraternal Order of Police sat between the NAACP president and a Harvard professor. Organizers felt Bloomington needed to have a discussion on such issues too, even though some in the community may disagree, Reed said.
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While the lives of law officials do matter, it seems we are missing the point.
