Posted on 05/11/2017 6:52:00 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
As various movements have sprung up like flash mobs to march and protest President Donald Trump's election, a question gradually occurred to me: Where's Black Lives Matter?
Ever since the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter was born after a jury acquitted a neighborhood watch volunteer in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin in Florida in 2012, the loosely formed movement has turned up repeatedly to protest fatal shootings of unarmed black men and other racial disparities in the criminal justice system.
But since President Trump's election, we have seen new eruptions of racially suspicious police incidents, but not of major protests.
Last week, for example, we saw a suburban Dallas police officer charged with murder for allegedly firing his rifle into a car full of black teens, killing a 15-year-old boy.
Last month we saw the stunning video of police officers in Grand Rapids, Mich., holding a group of black children at gunpoint — ranging in age from 12 to 14.
Yet as much as these disturbing stories made national news, they did not spark the major protests we have seen elsewhere. Why?
A Washington Post reporting team came up with one answer after interviewing what they described as "more than half a dozen leaders" in the Black Lives Matter movement.
The movement has entered a new phase, they were told. It is focused more on policy than on protest, all in response to the election of President Trump.
"There are less demonstrations," Alicia Garza, one of three women credited with coining the #BlackLivesMatter hashtag, told the Post. "People are channeling their energy into organizing locally, recognizing that in Trump's America, our communities are under direct attack."(continued)
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Talk to Soros, Clarence. They’re bought and paid for.
I think Clarence is mistaken.
I’m pretty sure Black Lies Matter was born after “hands up don’t shoot” didn’t happen.
there. fixed it.
Flash mobs. Yeah. Spontaneous demonstrations. Casual get-togethers. Nothing organized about them.
Uh huh.
Clarence Page WHINES in every column he writes.
The cry baby must lead quite the miserable life.
Good.
“Can Black Lives Matter move up in the age of Trump?”
You need an administration that plays along with your lies.
So no.
Move up to what? The East Side?
Since BLM was organized and coordinated from the Obama White House as a fake grievance group, they are gone for now.
Lets take a calibrated measurement right now... and then we will measure in 3 months... and we will go from there.
There's a picture of Clarence next to the definition of "cuck" in the dictionary...
When will ALL LIVES MATTER? In America, IF ALL LIVES DON’T MATTER, THEN NO LIVES MATTER!
to Supermax?
To plagiarize a FReeper... /Null
or was it supposed to be /DEV NULL?
Perhaps they can get a deluxe apartment in the sky
Haha. I knew that and I’m white!
Clarence Page, surrender your RACE card immediately!
BLM is an extension of Obama’s ridiculous position that blacks who commit criminal acts are always victims, never perpetrators. This just shines a light on the pathetic status of a significant portion of black culture which has lost all touch with reality and who dooms itself to second class status and to discrimination that is now richly deserved, because it is based on the nature of their character, not on the color of their skin.
I really do believe we are being manipulated into becoming groups of squabbling tribes. Yeah, we here on FR are guilty of making off colored jokes at group expense, but I am 100% sure that people on this site treat individuals as they would be treated. But I am really beginning to believe that this seemingly constant nonstop barrage of this ugliness coming from campuses is designed to sow distrust and put groups against each other. I mean really, do you think the second generation who grew up with diversity and inclusion and kumbaya pounded into their skull every day since birth are now even more racist than their grandparents while attending classes on the supposedly most liberal places on the planet?
It became widely known then, but it start with the Zimmerman trial.
http://blacklivesmatter.com/about/
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