Posted on 10/01/2015 12:05:05 PM PDT by lbryce
Everybody, the movement’s co-founder says, has a civic duty to “stand on the side of people who have been oppressed for generations.”
Martin Luther King’s “Letter From a Birmingham Jail” ripples and echoes through much of the Black Lives Matter movement:
I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to “order” than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: “I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action”; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a “more convenient season.” Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.
These lines in particular—the notion of a “negative peace”; the derision of a “mythical concept of time”; the myriad dissatisfactions of moderation and patience—have proven especially resonant of late. In July, Black Lives Matter protestors interrupted a Netroots Nation forum featuring Bernie Sanders and Martin O’Malley, preventing the Democratic presidential candidates from speaking to the audiences assembled to hear them. Last month, other members of the movement interrupted a campaign stop Hillary Clinton made in Cleveland. As the activist Patrisse Cullors explained of her role in the shutdowns, “We are tired of being interrupted.”
The symbolism here—the grassroots movement, halting the momentum of politics as usual—is hard to miss. But the IRL activism speaks, too, to Black Lives Matter’s place
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That Moderator’s got a lightning quick, observant eye.
One of the goals of the “Black Lives Matter” movement is to establish a two tier legal system where blacks are exempt from many, or most, of the laws and subsequent punishment that now apply equally (in theory) to all citizens.
Explain
typo
Barack and Moochelle Obama:
Setting African Americans back 100 years.......
My guess is yes to the 1st question, but question 2 remains no because they think he is being stopped by the white progressives within the Democratic Party.
It’s not a movement... it’s the same old bunch that failed at ‘Occupy’...
Go ahead.
Murder each other.
Just phLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEZE don’t ask me to give a damn. Really, just DON’T.
The leftwing Atlantic magazine
NEVER MENTIONS the name of Soros, who created, drills, bankrolls and transports his Blacklivesmatter from city to city.
They make no mention of the messages all over social media of the Soros’ blm members notifying each other of where to meet in the next city they are going to riot “spontaneously” in.
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