Posted on 07/15/2016 8:38:35 AM PDT by Zakeet
The trip will highlight the "globalization of police brutality," activists say.
As protests continue throughout the country over the police killings of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, the latest African-American men to die at the hands of police, a coalition of Black Lives Matter activists will take their movement to a new place next week: Rio de Janeiro.
It's the latest effort to expand the Black Lives Matter message across the globe, and it comes at an important time. With less than a month to go before Rio hosts the 2016 Olympic Games, the activists hope they can take advantage of the spectacle to highlight the city’s rising levels of police violence and connect with Brazilian activists who are fighting a similar struggle.
"Police brutality is global. And Brazil has its own form of ruthlessness," Daunasia Yancey, the founder of Black Lives Matter’s Boston chapter, told The Huffington Post. "The movement that came before and during and after Ferguson has been really intentional about a global struggle and understanding that our freedoms are all tied to each other."
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They believed (and believe) their own crap.
Kind of reminds one of Liberals, doesn’t it?
Good. They’re going to a country nearing financial collapse, which means no cops, no safety, no skeeter repellent.
Note to BLM attendees:
Be sure to drink the water, and yes, those brown floaters you see actually ARE free candy bars, so munch away!
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Who’s picking up the hotel tab? Who’s paying plane fare?
IT’S WHITE PEOPLE. WHITE LIBERAL ‘ELITES’...
WHITE LIBERAL ELITES ARE GINNING UP BLACK HATRED AND BLACK GRIEVANCE TO ‘GET THE VOTE OUT’.... PLAYING BLACKS FOR FOOLS ONE MORE TIME...
Especially foreign ones.
This is like a Bob Hope movie......On the road to.....
Good, they can stay there.
Have a nice tall glass of water too.
Apparently, they do not remember what happened when a bunch of American radicals went to Mexico City to protest at the Olympics (held in October) in 1968.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tlatelolco_massacre
They met up with Mexican radicals and were having a grand old time at a large protest. Except in Latin America, the *typical* response to such things is often machine guns.
Eventually the US made some muted protests about the disappearance of American citizens in Mexico, but soon dropped the matter.
You are right. It’s the same old same old. You get bombarded with pictures of blacks acting only one way.
I dont work in Manhattan anymore so I forget all good guys and gals I knew that were black.
That’s why I pray.
How about they just statvthere?
Classic conspiracy, if you ask me...no doubt about it!
It’s going to be so sad when they find out what the rest of the world is like.
BLaMe it on Rio.
Seriously, the Rio cops kill people.
At the risk of being declared a misanthropic racist: There goes the Rio neighborhood....
The race agitators shall likely discover that stupidity hurts - especially in a country that shall not coddle nor condone their idiocy.
Also, the Mosquito down there are oppressed. Their lives matter, and you shouldn’t kill or harm them.
Maybe a swim in the ocean too for good measure?
yeah, it’s getting close to the time to STHU. Trump is the new sheriff in town and he’s bringing Rudy with him in some capacity.
And let me tell ya, Rudy was open for business when he became mayor!!
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