Posted on 01/23/2015 7:57:42 AM PST by Academiadotorg
The Black Lives Matter protest movement, found its way to the Modern Language Association (MLA) convention in Vancouver, but failed to attract much support from the left wing attendees.
With an estimated 7,000 left-wing professors and their protégés in attendance the protest managed to only attract about 150 people or so who listened to a litany of speeches vilifying police actions against blacks across the country. After the speeches it was time to actually march and more than half of those assembled apparently decided that their dedication to this issue didnt extend to spending any time in the 40 degree Vancouver weather.
Im sure the organizers hoped to make a bigger splash considering both the size and makeup of the convention attendees, but it only proves that the Black Lives Matter movement is even too fringy for most left-wing academics.
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Probably conflicted with 2-for-1 time at the bar.
That vein has been completely played out.
I can’t figure out who it was that said black lives didn’t matter? Maybe it was the pro abortion lobby who support the killing of tens of thousands of black babies each year. It must have been the pro abortion people. They are enthusiastic about killing babies, especially black ones.
It also includes the likes of the “Rev.” JJ, who’s done nothing to stop the rampant black drug gang crime that regularly claims the lives of 500 or more young black males each year in Obola’s city.
African-Americans have isolated themselves politically by adoring low life, “Obama/Holder/Sharpton/De Blasio/Soros, thugs, crimlnals, druggies, cop killers & would be cop killers like their beloved crimina low lifel...Michael Brown!!! Not-too-bright!!!
too fringy? Or too stupid even for communist propogandists? Uh I mean left wing academics.
The fact that black abortions don’t quite jibe with the black lives matter narrative is probably what killed it. Also when some college president got in trouble and had to apologize for tweeting “ALL lives matter”.
Milwaukees tough-talking black sheriff, David Clarke, argued this week that white Americans have made great strides in healing race relations, and that sooner or later
theyre going to grow tired of having their noses rubbed in the past sins of sins of
slavery." (Fox News via The Daily Surge)...
40 degrees in Vancouver in January? And they use the Celsius thermometer in Canada. That’s 104 Fahrenheit.
But it's an American article. 40°C is hot for July in Canada, and Vancouver is on the coast and has a moderate climate.
40°F = 4°C, which is about right.
Three lefts make a right.
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