Posted on 08/29/2020 1:00:05 PM PDT by Altura Ct.
On Friday night, radical Black Lives Matter (BLM) activists held a Black National Convention, which aimed to “reach and engage four million Black voters across the US, build infrastructure of Black political engagement that transcends the 2020 election season, and create and ratify a policy platform for the first 100 days of the next administration.”
Tens of thousands participated Friday in the virtual 2020 Black National Convention (BNC) hosted by the Movement for Black Lives (M4BL), a coalition that includes dozens of radical organizations including Black Lives Matter (BLM).
The live stream was the first national political convention for black Americans in nearly 50 years and was intended to create “a vision for Black Lives before the biggest election of our time, and long after,” according to M4BL’s website.
Friday’s broadcast included policy proposals on issues such as voter suppression, reproductive rights, housing insecurity, public education inequality, and inter-communal violence, according to its agenda which was shared exclusively with the Associated Press.
Organized by the radical defund-the-police-promoting Electoral Justice Project (EJP), a project of M4BL that focuses on electoral strategy, the 2020 BNC focused on organizing black political power through the political process in order to ensure community demands are met.
“The uprising in the wake of George Floyd’s murder and countless other murders from police and vigilante violence along with the alarming Black death rate due to COVID-19 has exposed what we can no longer hide—America does not value Black lives,” said M4BL organizer and political strategist Jessica Byrd, who leads the Electoral Justice Project (EJP). “But we also know that rising up and taking action is how Black communities have secured our rights and dignity throughout this nation’s divided history.”
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
If they don’t like the USA then move to another country!
Blacks do not value black lives, otherwise 97% of black murders wouldn’t be by other blacks.
EXACTLY!
“...Bye Bye, give the reparations and dont ever come back...”
Their reparations should consist of what was allegedly taken from their ancestors: a loin cloth, a spear and a free one-way boat trip back to Africa...that’s it. Nothing else.
I am 100% for this...lets start today. THe rest of us can get back to safer cities, better schools, employment based on merit and more opportunities in the NBA and NFL
This convention’s platform includes wanting Black self- determination in all aspects of society. I don’t know how you achieve that in a multicultural society. Break off into segregated cities?
I read their platform. It’s OK, all they are going to do is gripe, and that’s what they do now.
Over 50 responses and none ask where this so called convention was held. Or point out that Britebart does not do so.
Sadly she was asleep in history class. Many African Americans are the descendants of slaves. Apart from the free black men of the era, and immigrants since then the "black community" were granted their most important rights as a result of the actions and sacrifices of hundreds of thousands of white Americans who elected Republican Abraham Lincoln and won the civil war.
Most subsequent advances were made by Republicans, many of them white, voting for policies and laws which ended the discrimination engineered by Democrats.
Personally I consider dignity something inherent in any human, including those of all races who suffered as slaves, or are suffering today.
Change every instance of “Black” to “White” to see the reaction.
It’s gonna take a lot to take me away from you
There’s nothing that a hundred men or more could ever do
I bless the rains down in Africa
Gonna take some time to do the things we never had
Further they step into these arrests and happenings screaming and creating further damage to their own kind......they don't want to just wait until the facts are known...now anything and everything is a problem for them and I’m truly done with the drama and the senselessness. They've worn me down ..... now we're just being played...again!
Any mention of leaving?
Sounds racist.
If only they had their own continent somewhere.
I love all these responses that basically say let the door hit you on the way out.
Planes leaving everyday, don’t like it here you’re free to leave.
#backtoafrica
Apartheid was in place for a reason.
Good. Have their own political party right now and we’ll help them get on the ballot in all fifty states. It’s only fair.
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