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Thousands of 'freedom fighters' in Cleveland for first national Black Lives Matter conference
The Cleveland Plain Dealer ^ | July 26, 2015 | Jane Morice

Posted on 07/26/2015 2:02:18 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Attendees of the Convening's opening ceremony raise their fists as a symbol of power during an organizer's speech.

Activists from across the nation converged in Cleveland this weekend for a conference meant to draw national attention to police brutality and race relations in the wake of a number of incidents involving police and black Americans.

The National Convening of the Movement for Black Lives began Friday at Cleveland State University where activists will attend sessions that range from viewing films to open discussions on topics that highlight issues that affect all aspects of black culture.

The conference is happening amid an escalating national discussion about law enforcement's interaction in black communities. Those issues are illustrated through several high-profile incidents that began in the summer of 2014 with the shooting death of Michael Brown Jr. by a Ferguson, Missouri police officer and continue through this month when Sandra Bland was found dead in a Texas jail cell where she was being held after a routine traffic stop.

The conference is being held in Cleveland, a city where two police officers remain under investigation in the Nov. 22, 2014 shooting death of 12-year-old Tamir Rice. The Cleveland police department is now operating under a federal reform agreement that came after the U.S. Justice Department's two-year-long probe of the department's use-of-force practices and policies....

(Excerpt) Read more at cleveland.com ...


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To: BenLurkin

Yes, them and those idiots who run the GOP. They deserve each other.


41 posted on 07/26/2015 3:27:25 PM PDT by abbastanza
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To: mrsmel
I don’t think that this country, alone amongst all other nations in history, needs to be paying for something which happened over 100 years ago, for which rivers of the blood of whites was shed to end, and for which mountains of economic payment in the form of increasing “entitlements” has been paid.

You are right, but mountains of economic payments will NEVER be enough. If they stopped, Al and Jesse wouldn't make any money.

42 posted on 07/26/2015 3:42:15 PM PDT by Mark17 (When I see the mountain, covered with snow, fallen from Heaven above. Makes me feel so small)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

How many sessions did that have discussing the fact that the vast majority of homicides of young black men are murders committed by other young black men? And that homicides of young black men by police, usually justifiable homicides, are down in noise statistically?

What? Reality doesn’t matter to these folks?

Well then, never mind.


43 posted on 07/26/2015 3:46:36 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

How many sessions did that have discussing the fact that the vast majority of homicides of young black men are murders committed by other young black men? And that homicides of young black men by police, usually justifiable homicides, are down in noise statistically?

What? Reality doesn’t matter to these folks?

Well then, never mind.


44 posted on 07/26/2015 3:46:37 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: FreedomPoster

did they have


45 posted on 07/26/2015 3:50:34 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; ADemocratNoMore; Akron Al; arbee4bush; agrace; ATOMIC_PUNK; Badeye; Bikers4Bush; ...

Ohio Ping


46 posted on 07/26/2015 4:26:25 PM PDT by Whenifhow
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To: Dallas59

They need their own country, police force, government.
= = = = = = = = = = = = = =
Turned that down when President Monroe ‘fixed’ it up for them.

Lets face it , ‘they’ do not want anything they have to ‘build’ for themselves, they would rather have what ‘we’ built. (Yes, a lot of them were and still are a part of the building of this country etc)


47 posted on 07/26/2015 4:38:20 PM PDT by xrmusn ((6/98)"We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office ~Aesop~")
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To: shankbear

enough said.

48 posted on 07/26/2015 4:56:20 PM PDT by RC one
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To: shankbear
It is absolutely black racism to say “black lives matter.” How about all lives matter. Black racism has grown exponentially since 2009.........wonder what happened then??

Yup.

49 posted on 07/26/2015 5:05:57 PM PDT by FreeReign
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To: FreeReign

They are much freedom fighters as the Iraqi Insurgents we freedom fighters.

I read this the other day on here and it’s crystal clear what’s going on.

“A freed slave doesnt want freedom...he wants to be the new master.”


50 posted on 07/26/2015 5:12:50 PM PDT by Crim (Palin / West '16)
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To: xrmusn

Black is the new Chinese.


51 posted on 07/26/2015 5:28:46 PM PDT by Dallas59 (Only a fool stumbles on things behind him.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Great. I begin a 13 week work assignment next monday in
Cleveland.


52 posted on 07/26/2015 5:32:07 PM PDT by americas.best.days... ( I think we can now say that they are behind us.)
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To: americas.best.days...

My old home town.
Was just up there for a funeral.

Three of my idiot liberal union distant family members went out of their way to seek me out and deliver an anti-Trump rant.

I think the Dems have mobilized their forces against him.


53 posted on 07/26/2015 5:34:52 PM PDT by nascarnation (Impeach, convict, deport)
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To: mrsmel

You got that right, when the NBPP comes recruiting, all the sudden they ain’t so down for the struggle because the NBPP wants to get in a shooting war, they just don’t have the troops yet.


54 posted on 07/26/2015 6:01:53 PM PDT by Molon Labbie (Prep. Now. Live Healthy, take your Shooting Iron daily.)
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To: shankbear

Now you’re catching on...
Saying ‘Black Lives Matter’ sounds better than the actual meaning of ‘Stick it to Whitey’.
The movement is another means to seek retribution.


55 posted on 07/26/2015 6:07:09 PM PDT by griswold3 (Just another unlicensed nonconformist in am dangerous Liberal world.)
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To: Dallas59

Truthfully. How could they possibly complain if they did?

But they aren’t leaving and no one is going to give up the land to make it happen.


56 posted on 07/26/2015 6:08:15 PM PDT by Molon Labbie (Prep. Now. Live Healthy, take your Shooting Iron daily.)
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To: shankbear
black lives matter

Except to gangbangers.

57 posted on 07/26/2015 6:14:11 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republican Freed the Slaves" month.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Hey I shook hands with Robert Kennedy as he drove by my little Catholic grade school when he was running for the NY senate,IIRC.......he was grabbing all the kids hands....I also got a pic of him and his entourage flying by my road on the way coming into town ....

back in the day when we could admire people and respect people...I have so little admiration for most people nowadays...

58 posted on 07/26/2015 8:46:10 PM PDT by cherry
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

That’s Southwest Ohio, between Dayton and Cincinnati. It’s definitely not anything like the Cleveland area, since it leans much more rightward (despite what Boehner does).


59 posted on 07/27/2015 1:31:35 AM PDT by setha (It is past time for the United States to take back what the world took away.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
"Cleveland looks just like Ferguson, looks just like Baltimore, looks just like all of these places that have high oppression," Davis said. "We wanted to highlight that and bring some attention to what's going on in this city and the state of Ohio as well."

No they don’t.

Ferguson is about 40% black. Cleveland and Baltimore are about 80% black or more.

But the interesting thing about this is that in Cleveland and Baltimore the blacks elect the political leaders in their communities and yet all of this anti-black racism exist in their communities that permits their young black men to be killed by the police in their streets.

60 posted on 07/27/2015 3:16:40 AM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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