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.
Well its Oakland so they are in the right place for this nonsense..poor girls, raised to be little racist Commie freaks bet their mothers are proud since I can bet they don’t have fathers..just throw them some free birth control and a pamphlet to the nearest abortion clinic thats about all they basically need
“”A lot of the work the Black Panthers did was community oriented””
Sure it was....When is this nonsense ever going to end? Every day it’s something else to insult us...whether it’s on the streets of Oakland or in DC.....at the WH....
Groups like GSA are incredibly protective of their trademarks. Trademark infringement that goes unchallenged results in that trademark being abandoned under the law. It’s why Coca-Cola, and many other companies, employ secret shoppers to make sure that their trademarks (like “Coke”) aren’t being used in the generic (to order Pepsis).
GSA actually has a legal obligation to challenge this. If they don’t then ant group out there can start using the term “Brownie” for young girls groups.
If this was a white group calling itself “Aryan Brownies” the GSA would have already sent a C&D and made very public statements about doing so, threatening (and prepping for) legal action for non compliance.
“The girls felt really just like passionate about the topic and they loved being there,” Martinez said.
Yeah - we can tell - like, they didn’t have - like - anything else to do - like - maybe study some - like - English books!!! What are those?
That’s a deep, dark secret and you’re not mature enough to understand....but if you’re lucky, some day you’ll be really curious enough to throw this garbage aside and be a productive member of society. Until then, have fun and enjoy the notoriety!
Don’t these girls have any parents?
The same tactic has worked well for the “palestinians”. /sarc
No,they are a part of Hillary’s “village”.
Should be fun:
GSA(GLAD) vs NAACP. This isn’t even going to be fair.
The homo-babykillers are going to hammer Al Sharpton’s Harem like chop meat.
By the time this is over, half of them will have had gender reassignment surgery and will have applied to by Boy Scouts.
Racial Brownies.
I bet they wouldn’t like the “brownies” known as “blondies”and yes, at this point I’m speaking of bake shop goodies.
i didn’t think of Hillary’s Village
you have a point there
(Oakland is barf anyway...)
Instead of learning the virtue of earning by selling a product, these ho babies are all about da gibs and da takes along with learning the “I didn’t do nuffins” philosophy.
Even a lot of alternatives to the Girl Scouts don’t use the name “scouts”.
Girl Scout Alternatives
http://tamarawilhite.hubpages.com/hub/Girl-Scout-Alternatives
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