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Young Oakland Girls Called ‘Radical Brownies’ Learn Social Justice Instead Of Selling Cookies
sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com ^ | February 10, 2015 | Christin Ayers

Posted on 02/11/2015 9:41:13 AM PST by Second Amendment First

OAKLAND (KPIX 5) – After the recent Black Lives Matter protests, there is a new brownie troop in Oakland. Instead of selling cookies, they are spreading a message.

On a Saturday afternoon in Oakland, a handful of 8 to 10 year old girls are gathered, in brown uniforms, giggling and eating cupcakes. They look like Girl Scouts, but it’s not just fun and games.

And it’s not just fun and games. “White policeman are killing black young folks such as women, men and children,” one of the girls said.

Another girl said, “Mike Brown. He was shot because he didn’t do nothing. Only the police officer shot him because of his skin color.”

These girls are called the “Radical Brownies.” And instead of learning sewing, they’re learning social justice.

Even their uniforms have a message.

“The beret, it’s a Black Panther/Brown Beret twist,” one of the Radical Brownies said.

“I think it’s very appropriate. A lot of the work the Black Panthers did was community oriented,” Radical Brownies co-founder Marilyn Hollinquest told KPIX 5.

Hollinquest and her friend Anayvette Martinez co-founded the group about a month ago, after Anayvette’s daughter Coatlupe told her she wanted to join a girl’s group.

“How amazing would it be to have a girls’ troop that was really focused around social justice and where girls could even earn badges?” Martinez said.

Their first badge, a fist emblazoned with the words Black Lives Matter. They earned it for marching in a Martin Luther King Jr. Day parade in Oakland last month.

“The girls felt really just like passionate about the topic and they loved being there,” Martinez said.

When asked about the big issues they are tackling, Martinez said, “They are big issues. But we also feel like these are conversations that they’re not too young to be having.”

The Radical Brownies have triggered an avalanche of criticism online, with some accusing the group of brainwashing.

“We did strike a nerve. We definitely did strike a nerve,” Hollinquest said.

But Hollinquest said they are not telling the girls what to think. “Kids already understand fairness and unfairness, so we take that understanding at an age-appropriate level,” she said.

The girls said they feel like they are a sisterhood.

“It’s really good for me because it brings out who I am,” one of the girls said.

Martinez said, “After this first year, we’re hoping to be able to support other chapters starting.”

In a matter of weeks, the Radical Brownies’ Facebook page received 10,000 likes. There have been requests from as far away as France and Bermuda to start chapters there.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: blackpanthers; radicalbrownies; socialjustice; socialjusticegroup
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1 posted on 02/11/2015 9:41:13 AM PST by Second Amendment First
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To: Second Amendment First

Der Fuhrer maidens.


2 posted on 02/11/2015 9:42:35 AM PST by cripplecreek ("For by wise guidance you can wage your war")
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To: Second Amendment First

Little Brown Shirts.


3 posted on 02/11/2015 9:43:33 AM PST by rightwingcrazy
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To: Second Amendment First

“Give them a phone, crack, and a list of abortion clinics.”

Bought sums it up.


4 posted on 02/11/2015 9:46:09 AM PST by Autonomous User (During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.)
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To: Second Amendment First

GSA needs to speak out against this immediately, otherwise they are party to a takeover of a brownie troop for racist and political purposes...


5 posted on 02/11/2015 9:46:38 AM PST by Dubh_Ghlase
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To: rightwingcrazy

They don’t know any better. They’re just indoctinated little girls reading the scripts the other commie villagers provided for them.


6 posted on 02/11/2015 9:46:50 AM PST by jsanders2001
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To: Second Amendment First

The Future Lesbians Club......


7 posted on 02/11/2015 9:46:50 AM PST by circlecity
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To: Second Amendment First

Teaching lies to little girls so they will hate whitey. That is so beneficial to our nation.


8 posted on 02/11/2015 9:47:09 AM PST by doug from upland (Obama and the leftists - destroying our country one day at a time)
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To: rightwingcrazy

Right. Thats a start. Brown shirts, brown shorts, brown shoes brown suspenders, arm bands, and short hair cuts, and some political indoctrimation, and you have a new fringe lunatic left H Y.


9 posted on 02/11/2015 9:49:22 AM PST by Sasparilla (If you want peace, prepare for war.)
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To: Second Amendment First

Hitler Youth


10 posted on 02/11/2015 9:49:54 AM PST by MAKOTHEDOG
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To: doug from upland

Jason Riley WSJ editor spoke at Hillsdale college a few weeks back and was telling how his 2nd grader niece asked “Why you talk white”?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?x-yt-ts=1422579428&x-yt-cl=85114404&v=YjT3umq2pnM#t=20


11 posted on 02/11/2015 9:50:16 AM PST by cripplecreek ("For by wise guidance you can wage your war")
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To: Second Amendment First; All

Marxist Mint

Communist Coconut Fudgepacker


12 posted on 02/11/2015 9:51:10 AM PST by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) (GOPe is that easy to read))
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To: Second Amendment First
Their first badge, a fist emblazoned with the words Black Lives Matter. They earned it for marching in a Martin Luther King Jr. Day parade in Oakland last month.

I'd call this "Brownie" troop Communist Young Pioneers, but that would be unfair to the Young Pioneers. They weren't quite as much of a political propaganda arm of Liberal Statism.

13 posted on 02/11/2015 9:51:53 AM PST by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: Second Amendment First

I would think this would be a violation of several Girl Scouts trademarks...


14 posted on 02/11/2015 9:55:40 AM PST by alphadoggie
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To: Second Amendment First
"And instead of learning sewing, they’re learning social justice hate."
15 posted on 02/11/2015 10:00:28 AM PST by Skooz (Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us)
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To: Second Amendment First
"Kids already understand fairness and unfairness..."

Maybe, to an extent. But what are they being told in order for them to form an opinion?

My guess it's something like this:

'Mike Brown was a nice teenager who went to the store and then a white po-liceman shot him because of the color of the skin. He didn't do nuthin' wrong.'

16 posted on 02/11/2015 10:01:34 AM PST by DJ Frisat (Proudly providing the NSA with provocative textual content since 1995!)
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To: Second Amendment First

He was shot because he didn’t do nothing. Nice grammar there.


17 posted on 02/11/2015 10:02:34 AM PST by lesko
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To: Second Amendment First

Dress ‘em in burkas, make it a two-fer!


18 posted on 02/11/2015 10:04:01 AM PST by W. (Dem0crat-mandated education reform killed American progress. Thanks, morons!)
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To: lesko

Brownie... that is so racist.


19 posted on 02/11/2015 10:05:33 AM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: MAKOTHEDOG

Red diaper babies.


20 posted on 02/11/2015 10:08:52 AM PST by SoCal Pubbie
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