Black Lives members had a tense meeting with Democratic White House hopeful Hillary Clinton this week. Llike a disgusting, little, weak, pathetic baby’.
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Progressive activists shout, “Black Lives Matter” during a Jeb Bush rally last week in Last Vegas, Nevada. “Black Lives Matter is a unique contribution that goes beyond extrajudicial killings of Black people by police and vigilantes”. “What is there to apologize for?”
Well, the agenda of Black Lives Matter is to bring an end to anti-black violence in this country. My message to you is to continue practicing the kind of non threatening passive violence that has kept your movement relevant for over a year.
“It kind of throws me to the floor when I hear a man that’s running for our President reference Americans, reference the Black Lives Matter movement, ‘who is it? Unlike the rest of the republican field, we’re not interested in engaging in a race to the bottom with Mr. Trump”.
“I do think that there was a different set of concerns back in the ’80s and the early ’90s”.
“That was a mistake on my part and I meant no disrespect”, O’Malley said.
Critics on the left said the remarks showed a lack of understanding of what the Black Lives Matter movement is all about.
“It has to be confronted but it may not necessarily have a federal bill that we can pass that can fix all this”, he continued. That makes no sense. “We do need to face this”. Clinton refused to do so, choosing instead to take a more measured and practical approach to her answer.
While I cannot speak for every person in our group, I can tell you what the sign means to me: “Racism exists”. What’s the overall goal? I think we are up to the task of making it happen.
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Friday’s release of a formal Black Lives Matter platform comes as the group’s impact on the 2016 presidential race is rising. While emotions and tensions run high around the issue, Sanders has provided policy solutions that aren’t exactly warm and cuddly, regardless of their merit. No white persons are driving through black communities randomly shooting black people inside their homes or as they are walking down the street or sitting on a park bench. Sanders was interrupted again in Seattle this month. “It is horrifying to me that my most personal information, for the most nefarious reasons, has been forced out into the open and that my private past and pain have been used as jokes and fodder to discredit me and the greater movement for justice in America. If you don’t want me to be here, that’s okay”.
