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Posted on 04/05/2017 4:19:44 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
You aren’t black? Then you aren’t welcome here…
The Black Lives Matter organization based in Philadelphia created a public event on Facebook for a gathering they were hosting which they marketed as an “open meeting.” As many know, the supporters of the Black Lives Matter movement are very diverse. There are many different backgrounds represented as allies of the cause, which has grown significantly since its inception. This includes white people. A simple internet search will turn up many pictures of white people protesting right alongside black people.
However—for the Philly chapter of BLM—their meetings and events are strictly “black spaces” according to their Facebook event announcement. When pressed via Twitter, the official account of Black Lives Matter Philly explained that anyone is free to support the movement from a distance; however, their meetings are only for black people. They even cited Malcom X, the human’s rights activist who advocated for segregation.
The fact that any group would channel the roughest times for civil rights within the United States to illustrate modern-day times is completely ridiculous. For one thing, the current climate in the United States is nothing like it was in the 1960s. If anything, the hostility comes from so-called social justice warriors who are fighting for political correctness. Even more troubling is the fact that the group has absolutely no qualms about letting the Twitter world know that black people need their own gatherings that exclude any other race of people.
I can’t help but wonder if biracial individuals would be allowed to attend the meetings. How would they gauge the degree of anyone’s ethnicity? Scrolling through all of the discussions on Twitter will show that there are many people who agree with the organization that black people need their own spaces to gather free from anyone else. One Twitter user posted a photograph of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. during one of his famous rallies and pointed out to Black Lives Matter Philly that the civil rights icon congregated with white people. They responded to the photograph with, “He made that choice and we have made ours. White people can support us, but they cannot attend our meetings.” There were a few white people on Twitter who also supported the decision and referred to themselves as allies. This is a little confusing to me because I’m not quite sure what it means to be an “ally” in this sense. I would assume that allies to Black Lives Matter participate in their events and gatherings, as I have seen in many published photographs.
It’s a little sad that organizations which are brought together to raise awareness and spread tolerance would be short-sighted enough to exclude some of the very people who support their cause and have shown up to protests on their behalf. If anyone wanted my support for a cause that I believe in—telling me that I’m not welcome to attend open meetings because of the color of my skin would be one of the easiest ways to alienate me and lose my support.
A gazzion bunch of while folks need to go a do a sit in
They’re excluding people of color.
White is a color.
What is the venue? If it is a public building, then a lawsuit should be in order since they are discriminating against people based solely on race. The administrators of the building should be forced to deny them access.
>“black spaces”
Of the very few “black” people I work with, I have only discussed such anomalies with only two. Both simply
shake their heads in disgust at what damage these “X spaces” retards are doing to society. They say it puts them in difficult situations sometimes. I agree.
It boils down to bad parenting and of course the polar good/bad personality.
A bunch of racists being racist...SHOCKER!
White is all colors.
A bunch of racists being racist...SHOCKER!
Exactly.
This is typical Leftist 1984 word game B.S.
They take a perfectly good word, such as racist, build up the connotations into evil incarnate...
Then they totally subvert the meaning so that they can tag anyone they want to with the lable, because it has come to mean nothing and everything, as defined by them at the moment.
Racist implies recognizable races.
BLM = Klan with a Tan
Most of whats left of Philly is a third world hellhole.`
They are making a mistake. No need to interrupt them. BLM is a racist group acting like a racist group. The more people realize that the weaker they get.
Another bad thing about Philly: putting Cheese Whiz on cheese-steak sandwiches.
Well we might agree to disagree on that!
The irony of this blatant hypocrisy is that blacks only care when another black gets killed by a white cop. But they can kill each other all day long with barely a mention. It’s all about extorting more “free stuff” from whitey.
BLM is culturally mis-appropriating white man’s buildings and campuses.
That’s a major no-no.
BLM leftists should be meeting in grass huts outside the college campus. BLM must accept its cultural placement and move to Africa, wear loinclothes and chase down zebras with spears for their culturally appropriate dinner..
Lol. Concrete as cultural appropriation.
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