I bombarded dad with facts and stats which prove that blacks are the greatest threat to black lives, not racist white cops. “It needs to go”, she continued.
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I believe the movement is more than a group for black people.
“I think that we have gone away from the actual meaning of Black Lives Matter which mean we see officers – people getting killed on cameras and everything like that”, he said.
Let’s take a step back to the Civil Rights Movement.
“We need to frame out a way to come back to peace”, said Punch, 35, an African-American Dallas resident and Black Lives Matter contributor. I wish that in the midst of July, when I’d normally be writing about summer fun activities, that I didn’t feel compelled instead to address this serious topic. The police “body cam” videos of the shooting are painful to watch.
Another organizer told the crowd “as you know the climate that’s going on in America right now, we’re at war with each other”.
The organization says it did have a conversation with Mayor Lovely Warren on Sunday following that protest. It’s pure Marxism. It talks about state violence, genocide-all of those are buzzwords that are quite destructive. “Our lives matter. Stop killing us in the streets'”. There were police and Peacemakers around monitoring the event. He had an illegal gun and he resisted arrest.
She wants to be hopeful – “we’re deliberately talking about racism, after all” – but the contemporary 24/7 mass media spectacle does not nurture the reasoned, loving dialogue needed to get past our differences. “You have had four homicides this year, and they have been solved”. Black males were just 6.6 percent of the population but committed 5,531 murders. “Their rate of police-involved deaths was five times higher than for white men of the same age”.
Washington, a black woman whose father was a police officer, felt satisfied with the protest and the unity it showed between people of many different backgrounds, saying that it still made a statement despite its small size.
Rather than bring people together, those who practise identity politics often divide us into angry camps, perpetuating a world of “us” and “them”, where the “them” can so quickly be dismissed as lesser or the enemy. No, sir, not really, but I’m sure whatever the reason is, it’s a good one.
However, Vanderbilt University quickly distanced itself from Swain’s views. Unite and change, make it happen.
“Vanderbilt University is committed to diversity, inclusion and freedom from discrimination”. I hope and pray that we remember that we are “one nation, under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all”. A petition started in February calling on Vanderbilt to suspend Swain from her position due to her alleged mistreatment of minority students in the classroom and on Facebook garnered over 2,000 signatures.
In fact, there were common issues that Woods identified as still needing attention and those cited by some Black Lives Matters protesters who were picketing The Commercial Appeal last week.
“Because of the history of our country and because of the images we receive when we’re growing up, et cetera, oftentimes there’s a presumption that Black men are risky, so that has to be worked through”, he said. I have nothing against interracial marriages but it’s like we don’t like what we see in the mirror, so we marry into a white family knowing that the child will come out looking like Obama, Trevor Noah type which is more acceptable than our own appearance. Not just all lives.
Basic logic. It’s reasonable to expect that if you’d had to witness the gross injustices committed against those in non-white communities, you would understand why “All Lives Matter” is so harmful. It is time we take a stand. It is time we just say, “No!”
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The BLM website explains it this way: “What Does #BlackLivesMatter Mean?”
