Posted on 02/25/2016 3:18:24 PM PST by SeekAndFind
During an event at Thursday evening #BlackLivesMatter founders Alicia Garza and Opal Tometi told Mizzou students that the goal of the Constitution was to make an agreement between factions known as states, which were built on the backs of black slaves.
Garza and Tometi told students at the University of Missouri that the Black Lives Matter movement arose after what they called, “the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the murder of Trayvon Martin.”
"You can tell everybody that the founder said 'All lives matter!'"
They emphasized that while activism was important, it was also important to “engage in self-care.”
“Because there isn’t that culture of collective care, it becomes up to each individual to figure out how to be resilient in the face of so much trauma we’re facing,” Garza said.
The ills of capitalism were a common thread throughout different points in the guided discussion, with Garza noting at one point that, “What we know about our world is that we depend on each other to survive, and that’s not what our economic system teaches us.”
Capitalism was not the only thing with which Garza and Tometi took issue. Garza also said, “In the Constitution, we are only ? of a person...The people vowing to protect the Constitution are vowing to protect white supremacy and genocide.”
Later, Garza and a man in the audience had a tense exchange. The man asked why many activists don’t see mobilizing the black vote as being important. Garza answered rhetorically by asking why black people were encouraged to vote.
Garza spoke about how black people turned out in record numbers for Barack Obama, and agreed that it was because he was black. She then asked the crowd if they knew what demographic normally turned out in elections. When the majority said that it was old men, she asked who they tended to vote for. The crowd responded with “Conservative” or “Republican.”
The man stated that a person’s vote is the most powerful weapon they have. Garza replied, “I find it curious that we don’t mobilize liberal whites in the same way.”
Her response continued for several minutes, and when the same man asked if he could have another question, and the majority of the crowd let out a resounding, “No.”
The final question of the night came from a female doctoral student, who asked about the hashtags #AllLivesMatter and #BlueLivesMatter. Garza said these arrive as a counter-argument to the #BlackLivesMatter hashtag. She encouraged people to stir things up by saying, “You can tell everybody that the founder said ‘All lives matter!’”
Garza stated that while she does indeed believe that all lives matter, that is not the world we live in. She said that it was not possible in a world where “the average life expectancy of a black trans woman is 35.”
Garza and Tometi also used the “crabs in a bucket” analogy, stating that people can talk about them all they want, but they forget that the bucket is not a crab’s natural habitat.
During the same response, Garza gave her take on what she believes would end racism, “It’s gonna take white people, who benefit from this system of white supremacy, to stand up and say, ‘We’re not gonna take it anymore.’”
The event was sponsored by the MSA/GPC Department of Student Activities, Student Life, Gaines/Oldham Black Culture Center, and the Chancellor’s Diversity Initiative. The talk was hosted by the Missouri School of Journalism’s Professor Cristina Mislan.
They are free to take their whinging posteriors out of the US ASAP!
#BlackFecalMatter
They strike me as intellectual nihilists or complete idiots.
On second thought, they are complete idiots. I doubt if they know what a nihilist is.
I cannot imagine anyone with an IQ above room temperature taking them seriously, except for college professors.
blm, islam, GibsMeDats are all one in the same. Wipe them out before they breed more.
I like your style.
Understand, they are striving for race war...they will have absolutely no mercy if they can get enough support to war against us.
“#BlackLivesMatter founders Alicia Garza and Opal Tometi told Mizzou students that the goal of the Constitution was to make an agreement between factions known as states, which were built on the backs of black slaves.”
I call BS on this one. If these a$$clowns really, really believe this crap, then surely they need a new country in which to live. This ain’t it.
Better go back to that slavery supporting Articles of Confederation. /s
Because “All men created equal” hurts their cause?
“They are free to take their whinging posteriors out of the US ASAP!”
One would think with their special insight and talents they would move to south Saharan Africa, or Haiti, and help propel that continent out of poverty and despair. There they wouldn’t be burdened with white people, white privilege, and that pesky Constitution.
If what these people profess is true why do they continue to push water uphill in a country that oppresses them and where the black race represents only 12% of the population?
Why they don't make use of them is beyond me. I wouldn't stay if I felt like they do. Just quit whining and leave!
GMTA
Capitalism is the economic system of a harmony of rational and mutual self-interests of all men, in which the success of each promotes the well being of all. The basis of the harmony of self-interests is the combination of freedom and rational self-interest operating in the context of the division of labor, which is itself their institutional creation. Under freedom, no one may use force to obtain the cooperation of others. He must obtain their cooperation voluntarily. To do this, he must show them how cooperation with him is to their self-interest as well as his own.
Think you’re right about the intent. It’s a hell of a lot easier to be an anarchist, a community organizer... than to actually CONTRIBUTE to society.
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