Black Lives Matter has been controversial, but they are succeeding in getting the conversation of civil rights back into the main stream.
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Donald Trump says Democratic presidential candidate Martin O’Malley, right, is “weak” and “pathetic” for apologizing to Black Lives Matter protesters after he rightfully stated that “all lives matter” during a forum in July. “Who knows who that is”, Walker said, apparently referring to Black Lives Matter activists. So the other things that are talked about, Shannon, I’m not seeing any data to suggest that any of that is true. It’s the same way of saying you’re going to meet with the Tea Party, who’s the tea party? “There’s hundreds of thousands of people“. Black Lives Matter activists have been using these moments to challenge business as usual, bringing the issues of racism and inequality to a broad audience.
At one event, O’Malley responded to the chants of “black lives matter” by saying that “all lives matter”.
“I want to say that all of these workers here have a lot more guts than the candidates running for president for the Republican nomination”, O’Malley said.
O’Malley, in fact was “politically incorrect” with his apology, Trump remarked.
The policy proposals includes the introduction of body cameras to record police interactions, community oversight, improved training for law enforcement officers and police demilitarization, among other measures, according to the campaign’s website. The Governor pointed to the law he signed in Wisconsin mandating independent reviews of those incidents. “I’d much rather find out whether or not anchor babies are actually citizens because a lot of people don’t think they are”. I am not ashamed of it, or of who I am-never that-but I was advised by my pastor almost 20 years ago that this was not a mess of my doing and it was not my responsibility to fix it. All of my siblings and I have different parents. Many claim the statement shows a lack of understanding as to what the movement is all about. What I’m going to do is do what I’ve done in places like this.
‘No. For crying out loud, no, ‘ he should not have apologized, Bush told a reporter during a New Hampshire campaign stop.
Yancey asked Clinton: “You and your family have been personally and politically responsible for policies that have caused health and human services disasters in impoverished communities of color through the domestic and worldwide war on drugs that you championed as first lady, senator and secretary of state”.
A man holds a “Black Lives Matter” wristband in memory of Ezell Ford during a meeting of the Los Angeles Police Commission in Los Angeles, California June 9, 2015.
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“The reports about my race, about my past, and about the pain I’ve endured are all lies”, King wrote in the piece titled “Race, love, hate, and me: A distinctly American story”.
