Posted on 09/24/2020 9:18:51 AM PDT by Zenyatta
Former NFL player and “Speak for Yourself” sports commentator Marcellus Wiley slammed critics who told him he was “wrong for misinterpreting” the mission of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement after BLM removed a page from its website critical of the “Western-prescribed nuclear family structure.”
“Heard too many people tell me that I was wrong for misinterpreting BLM’s mission statement and I took their words out of context,” Wiley tweeted out on Monday.
“You were saying???” he wrote, adding the hashtags “#factsoverfeelings #apologyaccepted.”
He also posted a video of him blasting BLM’s now-deleted “mission statement” against the nuclear family.
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Kudos to him
I remember when he first spoke on this months ago. All the talking heads and donkeys on ESPN were all in agreement, then he spoke and said I DO NOT AGREE WITH BLM, and talked about their destruction of the family, etc...
The others all looked like children who were told Santa Claus doesn’t exist.
BLM deleted their anti-American, anti-family, anti-freedom mission statement? Surprise, surprise.
I have heard this man speak before. To them on the Left, he isn’t a man, he is an Oreo, a House Slave, a Uncle Tom.
To us, he is a man.
But without that they have no mission at all.
What We Believe
Four years ago, what is now known as the Black Lives Matter Global Network began to organize. It started out as a chapter-based, member-led organization whose mission was to build local power and to intervene when violence was inflicted on Black communities by the state and vigilantes.
In the years since, we’ve committed to struggling together and to imagining and creating a world free of anti-Blackness, where every Black person has the social, economic, and political power to thrive.
Black Lives Matter began as a call to action in response to state-sanctioned violence and anti-Black racism. Our intention from the very beginning was to connect Black people from all over the world who have a shared desire for justice to act together in their communities. The impetus for that commitment was, and still is, the rampant and deliberate violence inflicted on us by the state.
Enraged by the death of Trayvon Martin and the subsequent acquittal of his killer, George Zimmerman, and inspired by the 31-day takeover of the Florida State Capitol by POWER U and the Dream Defenders, we took to the streets. A year later, we set out together on the Black Lives Matter Freedom Ride to Ferguson, in search of justice for Mike Brown and all of those who have been torn apart by state-sanctioned violence and anti-Black racism. Forever changed, we returned home and began building the infrastructure for the Black Lives Matter Global Network, which, even in its infancy, has become a political home for many.
Ferguson helped to catalyze a movement to which we’ve all helped give life. Organizers who call this network home have ousted anti-Black politicians, won critical legislation to benefit Black lives, and changed the terms of the debate on Blackness around the world. Through movement and relationship building, we have also helped catalyze other movements and shifted culture with an eye toward the dangerous impacts of anti-Blackness.
These are the results of our collective efforts.
The Black Lives Matter Global Network is as powerful as it is because of our membership, our partners, our supporters, our staff, and you. Our continued commitment to liberation for all Black people means we are continuing the work of our ancestors and fighting for our collective freedom because it is our duty.
Every day, we recommit to healing ourselves and each other, and to co-creating alongside comrades, allies, and family a culture where each person feels seen, heard, and supported.
We acknowledge, respect, and celebrate differences and commonalities.
We work vigorously for freedom and justice for Black people and, by extension, all people.
We intentionally build and nurture a beloved community that is bonded together through a beautiful struggle that is restorative, not depleting.
We are unapologetically Black in our positioning. In affirming that Black Lives Matter, we need not qualify our position. To love and desire freedom and justice for ourselves is a prerequisite for wanting the same for others.
We see ourselves as part of the global Black family, and we are aware of the different ways we are impacted or privileged as Black people who exist in different parts of the world.
We are guided by the fact that all Black lives matter, regardless of actual or perceived sexual identity, gender identity, gender expression, economic status, ability, disability, religious beliefs or disbeliefs, immigration status, or location.
We make space for transgender brothers and sisters to participate and lead.
We are self-reflexive and do the work required to dismantle cisgender privilege and uplift Black trans folk, especially Black trans women who continue to be disproportionately impacted by trans-antagonistic violence.
We build a space that affirms Black women and is free from sexism, misogyny, and environments in which men are centered.
We practice empathy. We engage comrades with the intent to learn about and connect with their contexts.
We make our spaces family-friendly and enable parents to fully participate with their children. We dismantle the patriarchal practice that requires mothers to work “double shifts” so that they can mother in private even as they participate in public justice work.
We disrupt the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure requirement by supporting each other as extended families and “villages” that collectively care for one another, especially our children, to the degree that mothers, parents, and children are comfortable.
We foster a queer-affirming network. When we gather, we do so with the intention of freeing ourselves from the tight grip of heteronormative thinking, or rather, the belief that all in the world are heterosexual (unless s/he or they disclose otherwise).
We cultivate an intergenerational and communal network free from ageism. We believe that all people, regardless of age, show up with the capacity to lead and learn.
We embody and practice justice, liberation, and peace in our engagements with one another.
Hid.......................just like Biden............
Saw a good video I buddy of mine posted on Facebook from the Deplorable Choir.
Simple fix to if you should stand or kneel before a game:
https://www.facebook.com/thedeplorablechoir/videos/789798828256439
Anyone have the original?
Not that that whole things is not a load of bull. They do NOT practice peace and the rest look like gibmedats black privilege.
>>Hid.......................just like Biden............<<
Black Lids Matter!
We know for a fact that ALL children benefit from two parent, stable parent couples, NOT just black children. For leftists, the State is “the daddy.”
Looking at historical data showed that black families were beginning to compete with white families in income and education during the 1950s, but once Johnson and the dems introduced the welfare system, which actively opposed fatherhood, saw the downward spiral of the “black family.”
Combine that with the irrational belief, continuing today, that education is “acting white” was the left’s war on blacks and the introduction of a permanent lower-class that could be used as cannon-fodder for a leftist race-war.
Mark
Yes...he is correct...
No, they just hid it. It's not on the website, but the mission remains the same. The issue is not the issue. The commie revolution is the issue.
It’s on Wayback.
I made a copy about 2 weeks ago, which is what I posted.
Notice the lower parts where it talks about women in families but not men, destroying the nuclear family, and other similar things that are a big part of the problem in black communities.
http://web-old.archive.org/web/20200914205003/https://blacklivesmatter.com/what-we-believe/
Various copies go back to Sept 30 2019.
Thanks!
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