Page: Can Black Lives Matter move up in the age of Trump?

The Pantagraph ^ | May 11, 2017 | Clarence Page

[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)

[fluorescence]

“Hands up don’t shoot” sounds like they want to hold up the cops, as in “stick em up”.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Sessions is stepping up drug and gun prosecutions. That's one of the problems destroying black people. These gang-banging thugs shoot and kill each other and they go to court and plea-bargain it down to aggravated assault or some other misdemeanor and spend just a few months in the joint. Then they get released even earlier for time served or "good behavior" and are right back out in the streets again.

All thanks to Obama's DoJ who allowed prosecutors the option of not charging violent offenders.

These gangs need to be completely destroyed. Abolish the welfare and housing system which would force fathers to get a job and marry their baby Mommas and they would have intact families.

[norwaypinesavage]

The answer is quite simple; it’s amazing that Page is too biased to see it. “Black Lives Matter” advocates illegal activity, and Obama allowed it without prosecution. Trump doesn’t. Bye, bye black lies.