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Black Lives Matter St. Paul Founder Says He ‘Resigned’ After Learning the ‘Ugly Truth’
The Epoch Times ^ | May 30, 2021 | Jack Phillips

Posted on 05/30/2021 6:57:52 PM PDT by Twotone

A Black Lives Matter chapter founder in Minnesota has resigned, claiming that the organization isn’t concerned about helping black communities or helping improve the education quality in Minneapolis, according to a video published last week.

Rashard Turner, the founder of a Black Lives Matter chapter in neighboring St. Paul, said he started the branch in 2015 but became disillusioned roughly a year after becoming “an insider” within the left-wing organization, according to a video released by TakeCharge—a group that rejects various provisions promoted by Black Lives Matter, including critical race theory-linked claims that the United States is inherently racist.

“After a year on the inside, I learned they had little concern for rebuilding black families, and they cared even less about improving the quality of education for students in Minneapolis,” Turner said in the video.

“That was made clear when they publicly denounced charter schools alongside the teachers union. I was an insider in Black Lives Matter. And I learned the ugly truth. The moratorium on charter schools does not support rebuilding the black family. But it does create barriers to a better education for black children. I resigned from Black Lives Matter after a year and a half. But I didn’t quit working to improve black lives and access to a great education.”

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Started a chapter in 2015, became disillusioned within a year & yet is only now resigning?!
1 posted on 05/30/2021 6:57:52 PM PDT by Twotone
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To: Twotone

No. He said he resigned in about mid-2016 or so.


2 posted on 05/30/2021 7:01:21 PM PDT by 17th Miss Regt
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To: Twotone

He started in 2015, saw the light, then resigned ‘a year and a half later’. At least he was honest with himself about the corruption and didn’t just start asking for his own piece of the pie. That’s what usually happens in these top heavy non profits.


3 posted on 05/30/2021 7:03:23 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: Twotone

How do you learn the ugly truth when you were to stupid to see it in the first place.

Cults make a great stupid filter.


4 posted on 05/30/2021 7:06:44 PM PDT by Eddie01
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To: Twotone

They seem to keep cleaning up their website with regard to the most offensive and obviously Marxist stuff; but what’s left is pretty egregious.


5 posted on 05/30/2021 7:10:43 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Twotone
Black Lives Matter is a Cult
6 posted on 05/30/2021 7:15:14 PM PDT by Eddie01
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To: Twotone

Bump


7 posted on 05/30/2021 7:19:23 PM PDT by stockpirate (Rebellion to tyranny is obedience to God., Where Justice Ends Tyranny Begins)
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To: Eddie01

If he were really stupid, he would NOT have left BLM.


8 posted on 05/30/2021 7:22:38 PM PDT by milagro (There is no peace in appeasement! )
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To: Twotone
BLM's complete indifference to black-on-black crime was a very clear clue from the very beginning.
Wonder why so many still don't see it.

9 posted on 05/30/2021 7:42:29 PM PDT by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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I don’t believe anything these commies say.


10 posted on 05/30/2021 7:50:20 PM PDT by choctaw man (Good ole Andrew Jackson, or You're the Reason God Made Oklahoma...)
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To: Twotone

Useful idiots are so easily manipulated.


11 posted on 05/30/2021 8:02:07 PM PDT by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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To: Eddie01

Worse than a cult. I don’t remember the Jim Jones cult burning, looting and murdering save one congressman and their own members.


12 posted on 05/30/2021 8:25:00 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: Vigilanteman

I’ll drink to that!


13 posted on 05/30/2021 9:48:46 PM PDT by j.havenfarm (20 years on Free Republic, 12/10/20! More than 3700 replies and still not shutting up!)
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To: Twotone

Economics, taxes, foreign policy, infrastructure, education, have all been issues that Americans generally prioritize as concerns when polled. Since when did skin pigmentation and what should be the proper pronoun for a man in a dress, and which stereotyped identity group is the latest imagined victim of our system become overarching concerns force fed by the media on the American population as a replacement for the real issues facing this country. Are we now only polling academe, the media, congressional Democrats and the victim industry for issues of the day?


14 posted on 05/30/2021 10:06:02 PM PDT by chuckee
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To: Twotone

Bookmark


15 posted on 05/30/2021 11:21:33 PM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you care! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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To: Twotone

Better late then never. When someone tells you they are marxist, believe them. Marxism is evil.


16 posted on 05/30/2021 11:50:11 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes.)
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bookmark


17 posted on 05/31/2021 12:09:39 AM PDT by GOP Poet (Super cool you can change your tag line EVERYTIME you post!! :D. (Small things make me happy))
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To: Eddie01

not a cult....a scam...for money...


18 posted on 05/31/2021 12:13:44 AM PDT by cherry (we are the dominionated)
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To: cherry

The just us brothers wink.


19 posted on 05/31/2021 9:08:55 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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