Posted on 11/30/2020 2:20:39 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
The year 2020 will be remembered for a lot of things - not least the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement around the world.
The organisation has led huge street rallies and high-profile campaigns against racism and police brutality.
Now the three women who founded the movement told the BBC they believe it has transformed politics.
"Black people alongside our allies stood up to change the course of history and we won," said Alicia Garza.
Garza and her BLM co-founders, Patrisse Cullors and Opal Tometi, spoke as part of the BBC 100 Women Masterclass 2020, a digital live event of masterclasses, big interviews and guests on 30 November.
The trio started the Black Lives Matter movement in the US in 2013 after the not guilty verdict against George Zimmerman, who shot dead unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin.
Protests erupted again this year after the killing of George Floyd, who died in May after a police officer knelt on his neck during his arrest in Minneapolis.
"Black Lives Matter, after seven years, is now really in the DNA and the muscle memory of this country," said Garza. "We all have watched how our community members, our family members, are being murdered on camera.
"Over and over again, the burden and responsibility for violence gets placed at our feet, but nobody talks about the violence that our communities are experiencing both at the hands of government neglect, but also at the hands of police officers.
"Now we have a new element which is vigilante and white supremacist violence."
Despite the ongoing struggle, the founders of BLM struck a cautiously optimistic note, especially when speaking about the defeat of Donald Trump in the US election. Black women in particular have been credited for playing a major role in President-elect Joe Biden's victory.
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Uhm, no. BLM - You didn’t win. You cheated along with the rest of the left.
And it makes you among the most reviled groups on the planet.
In a nation armed to the teeth and PO’d at commie treason.
May justice find you, crying, screaming and kicking, and mercilessly drag you to your well deserved fate.
I hear they are bringing back firing squads, gas and other treats for your ilk.
May we all savor the moment.
Ditto!
Over 90% of murdered black men are murdered at the hands of non-police black men. And they are murdered at per capita rates significantly higher than, a multiple of, the rate for whites.
Yet strangely, Black Lives Matter doesn’t attempt to address this problem.
Completely Orwellian.
The only thing it did was give us a new enemy
the history you created is not a good one.
Hold on just a second BLM...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYpVvjh_TMA&list=UU69jw6rkYg2GX37Z9PoNf8g
They “won” cheating and rioting .....to get CHAOS !
That’s what they “won” .
They “won” the stupidity award
won what? they put one of the biggest racists there are into the white house. Under Trump, up until covid hit, they had the lowest unemployment in history.
All they won was the ‘we got used by the rich white liberals’ award - again, they are just too stupid to realize it.
For every action, there is a reaction.
The BLM racists have lit the fuse, and might not like how this turns out.
It isn’t a new enemy. It is the same old enemy. They just stuck their heads out and made themselves easier to spot.
President-elect Joe Biden’s victory?
why hasn’t Big Tech censored this article?
Bkmk
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Yeah, I'm sure they won't still be crying years and years from now, well after I and everyone else currently living is dead.
I'll believe they "won" only after I stop hearing about "white privilege" or how "the GOP presidential candidate is a racist because we said so" and how we need affirmative action so blacks can get into colleges over whites and Asians.
What they’ve shown is that Black people are lawless American enemies.
There is a minority of black citizens that are American, but the great mass is decidedly anti, Non American
American police are more important to civilized society than the lawless majority black riff raff
Tell it to Chicago.
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