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Camille

Camille

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respiration said:
Yes.

You are on the money, @Day_Carver. The ones who dissuaded us from voting did not introduce any comprehensive plan to run our own candidate in 2020, coalesce with other minorities to back a candidate repping both our interests, lobby to limit campaign financing, organize against the electoral college. None of that.

Two things:
#1 Talk is cheap.
Conscious rappers in the late 80s - early 90s were watched and surveilled. In the end, those surveilling them saw all it was was talk. No one was mobilizing from that talk. No threat. It's not words - whether they are being used to complain, whether they are angry or not - that threaten the status quo.

It is action that threatens it. Along those lines:

#2 A new Civil Rights Movement led by the Black Lives Matter organization has been in effect for 3 years now around the issue of unjust deaths of Black folks by police and the issue of the assailants not being prosecuted. It is a matter of verifiable fact that things have been changing for the better across the nation as a result of their efforts. In several places around the U.S.: grand juries system to seek indictment of cops has been discontinued, reform in police training is taking place, body cams have been ordered, police are beginning to be prosecuted for killing Black folks, laws are starting to change. It's not a sudden cataclysmic change. But that's not how change as a result of protest works. It must be sustained and it takes time. The first Civil Rights Movement was going on for 10 years before the first Civil Rights Bill was enacted - 11 years before the Voting Rights Act.

The same so-called pro-Black prominent figures that you see on the internet telling Black folks not to vote are the ones repeating to us (debunked) white supremacist talking points (George Soros) AGAINST Black Lives Matter and declaring them to be anti-Black Man and having a secret gay agenda. This, in spite of the fact that all along BLM has been campaigning for justice mostly for Black males murdered. These prominent Black internet talking heads misclassify protest as being about "marching, praying and begging the white man".

But when it comes to direct action, they are not doing a damn thing themselves - but talking. Not mobilizing, but talking. They're not even out there on the streets leading boycotts of Korean and Arab stores in our neighborhoods and redirecting people to Black owned stores. They're just talking. Criticizing those who ARE out there doing things and getting results.

They are telling people not to vote and in effect telling them not to protest, as well.

Criticizing and sideline quarterbacking. And since these personalities wear the mantle of pro-Black, many of their listeners perceive themselves to be pro-Black purely because they follow them and can repeat what they say. These are tens of thousands of Black people - mostly men - who are being told about how we got to put our monies together and build shit, by folks who are not out there in the community implementing it and mobilizing folks.

Tens of thousands of Black people being led into inactivity through the costume of pro-Blackness.

How fucked up is that? Which side are these folks really on?
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respiration said:
They have gotten folks to vote. That's how Cleveland and Chicago got rid of corrupt state's attorneys. Our people have become a culture of critics of these folks without looking at the fact that as police reform goes, they are the only ones who've gotten any sort of results.

As the people I critiqued go, it would seem that they would have attempted to coalesce with them, given their input, find where there's common ground and work alongside them.

I've posted on bgol comprehensively and exhaustively on specific Black Lives Matter victories, implementations and such over the last three years. Mass media doesn't report on these things, as it isn't in the best interests of their owners.

BLM and associated organizations have been pushing for justice reform all along. That is the root of their Movement.
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respiration

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Camille said:
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The ONLY reason they're being so bold NOW is because they know they now have fellow known racist friends and allies in the Presidency and within his cabinet.

For those who asked why the NRA never spokeup on behalf of Philando Castile or John Crawford, here is your answer:

The NRA are, without question, white supremacists.

The organization itself is speaking the same kind of alarmist lies against Black Lives Matter that the Nazis spoke against the Jews prior to WWII.

They are 5 million strong in the U.S. alone.
 
Camille

Camille

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respiration said:
The ONLY reason they're being so bold NOW is because they know they have friends and allies in the White House.

For those who asked why they didn't speak up on behalf of Philando Castile or John Crawford, here is your answer.

The NRA are, without question, white supremacists.

The organization itself is speaking the same kind of alarmist lies against Black Lives Matter that the Nazis spoke against the Jews prior to WWII.

They are 5 million strong in the U.S. alone.
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And folks are getting pissed that Trump is trying to get rid of Sessions, their main ally.
 
Camille

Camille

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Michelle Obama has opened up in front of a crowd of about 8,500 at the Women’s Foundation of Colorado’s 30th anniversary event in Denver about her experience as America’s first black first lady.

Obama spoke about smashing the glass ceiling as she was interviewed Tuesday by WFCO President and CEO Lauren Casteel at the Pepsi Center ― the same venue where she addressed thousands at the 2008 Democratic National Convention.

Casteel asked which of the falling glass shards cut the deepest, according to the Denver Post.

“The shards that cut me the deepest were the ones that intended to cut,” Obama said. “Knowing that after eight years of working really hard for this country, there are still people who won’t see me for what I am because of my skin color.”

Obama referenced racist attacks she endured, including being called an ape and disparaging references made about her body.

The former first lady faced an onslaught of racist insults while her husband, former President Barack Obama, was in office. Even after the 2016 presidential election, two West Virginia officials lost their jobs for referring to Obama as an “ape in heels” in a Facebook post celebrating President Donald Trump’s victory.

Throughout Obama’s two terms, she shared during commencement addresses and in some interviews how she coped with the racist attacks she had to face.

“When they go low, I go high,” Obama told graduates of the historically black Jackson State University in April 2016. “That’s the choice Barack and I have made. That’s what’s kept us sane over the years.”

In Denver, the Post added, Obama said that she doesn’t pretend such vicious attacks don’t hurt her, because it lets those doing the hurting off the hook.

During the event, she also again stressed that she does not plan to run for public office.

Head over to the Denver Post to read more about Obama’s wide-ranging conversation.
 

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