Posted on 07/23/2024 4:33:54 PM PDT by Jess Kitting
The left-wing organization Black Lives Matter is resisting the installation of Vice President Kamala Harris as the presumptive Democratic nominee and are calling on the Democratic National Convention "to create a process that allows for public participation in the nomination process, not just a nomination by party delegates."
In a statement Tuesday, the group, which rose to prominence in 2020 for organizing nationwide protests in the wake of the killing of George Floyd, said that "a 24-hour process of talking to party bosses is not democratic, nor is it a process Democrats should be proud of."
For weeks after his disastrous debate performance last month, internal party pressure mounted against President Joe Biden to drop out of the race — though he resisted those calls and insisted he was "in it to win it."
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Ya’d think they’d be happy
But, but Schumer said that Kamala was the choice of the ‘grassroots’. Was he deceiving us?
But, BLM, a group that predominantly aligns with the Democrat Party, is calling foul on the play.
"We do not live in a dictatorship. Delegates are not oligarchs. Installing Kamala Harris as the Democratic nominee and an unknown vice president without any public voting process would make the modern Democratic Party a party of hypocrites," the group said in a statement.
"Black Lives Matter demands that the [DNC] immediately host an informal, virtual snap primary across the country prior to the DNC convention in August."
They just now noticed this?
I didnt have “I agree with BLM” on my bingo card in 2024 but here we are
They can vote for Trump now how freakin hilarious would that be
But you will still vote for her because she is half Indian.
You lost me at “Black Lives Matter says ...”
What. the heck?
Black lives matter is supported by Kamala. She identifies as black. She’s one of them, in more ways than one.
Considering this, Black Lives Matter people are objecting to the process? Do they not like Kamala for some reason?..
There’s an untold story I’m sure.
They should be resisting her based on her record as a prosecutor and the number of innocent black men she sent to prison....
I think they are acting as a mouthpiece for Obama to apply pressure on the Clinton/Biden kakistocracy
BLM leaders are hard core purist racists, they know Kamala is not black, that is their issue. This does not surprise me at all.
Let them speak up and force the party to deal with the repeated intraparty cheating and backroom deals. I think this will help clarify that Harris is not part of them, she’s still ‘sleeping her way to the top’.
How do they do a snap virtual event? Have people vote in an internet poll? Hire pollsters to do polling? Then what? Delegates to the Democrat convention still would have to vote on the nomination.
Who’s kidding who? They just want to get paid for their endorsement - and they will be, you watch.
Ouch.
Wanting people to vote for the candidate is an attack on democracy. Doesn’t BLM know that Nancy Pelosi and George Clooney decide who you’re allowed to vote for.
do they just want the ability to vote or do they not want Harris?
Even a blind squirrel...
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