Everybody except for the Yankees’ publicity department were aware that Sunday was the one-year anniversary of Michael Brown’s death. The officers, detectives Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos, were shot and killed by a lone gunman in Brooklyn in December 2014.
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After Tamir Rice was shot and killed by a Cleveland police officer, Agnes Scott College religious studies professor Jan Willis turned to her Buddhist exercises and wrote a column called “Why We Can’t Breathe”. “We are just telling the truth”.
“How can we continue with business as usual in our theological schools in the midst of so many egregious injustices?” they asked.
“We were just focused on having something positive come out of something negative”, he told Yahoo News. You never think this would happen, all these police officers killing all these people.
Like many charities, the Blue Lives Matter non-profit was allowed to sell discounted $25 tickets (normally $34) for the Yankees’ game with the Brooklyn Cyclones on August. 9.
The sign outside the River Road Unitarian Universalist Congregation in Bethesda was vandalized to read “Lives Matter” instead of “Black Lives Matter”. Joe Imperatrice said organisers were unaware of the significance of the date during planning.
Fiorina, who was widely seen as one of the big winners to emerge from Thursday’s first GOP primary debate, suggested that protesters in Ferguson should look to those in Charleston, South Carolina, as it seeks to heal its racial wounds caused by years of built-up tensions.
Gloria Willis, 70, of Riverside, who attended the rally, said it’s important to raise awareness of police interaction with black communities in Riverside given that it’s a university town and people from outside the area experience the city.
Clarke went on to blast “Black Lives Matter” as a “phony movement” that serves the political needs of Democrats who want to keep a significant portion of their base fired up over issues of race heading into 2016.
Mike Holley, the team’s senior director of marketing, told the Sporting News that the event was not meant to be political.
“First of all, of course all lives matter”, Fiorina responded.
Writing on The Root, cultural critic Kirsten West Savali said the promotion sent the message that “black lives don’t matter to [the Staten Island Yankees] or the Yankees organization”.
Supporters of Black Lives Matter, who have long been critical of the “Blue Lives Matter” copycat slogan, didn’t appreciate the timing. We are all created equal regardless of skin color.
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Today, as the dawn of Brown’s death re-enters into our lives, we must refocus our efforts and re-commit ourselves to the actual fight which brought us here. We try our best to accurately represent the interests of our community, and this issue is so divisive that it seemed like people wanted us to draw a line in the sand.
