In an article titled “Lessons from Fidel: Black Lives Matter and the Transition of El Comandante,” Black Lives Matter discusses lessons derived from the late Communist dictator of Cuba and explains that “Although no leader is without their flaws, we must push back against the rhetoric of the right and come to the defense of […]
Resentful white people elected a white supremacist as president according to Black Lives Matter’s statement published on mic.com. “What is true today — and has been true since the seizure of this land — is that when black people and women build power, white people become resentful. Last week, that resentment manifested itself in the […]
Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared on The Hill’s website. “Black Lives Matter is a radical social intervention.” That’s a direct quote from Black Lives Matter’s website. While the media have typically focused on Black Lives Matter’s assertions of societal racism and systemic police brutality, they have largely ignored the movement’s LGBTQ agenda. One of […]
#ATLisReady, “a collective of student activists, community organizers, and leaders working to amplify Black and other marginalized voices in Atlanta,” published several demands including a call for the city’s police department to exit the Georgia International Law Enforcement Exchange (GILEE). The GILEE program creates the opportunity for Israeli and Georgian police to learn from each other […]
The Movement for Black Lives (a conglomeration comprised of Black Lives Matter and many other groups) recently garnered media attention for releasing an incendiary manifesto. This manifesto includes references to Israel as an “apartheid state” and “ … a state that practices systematic discrimination … ” A post on Black Lives Matter’s Facebook page describes […]
Calling coverage of the Black Lives Matter movement “pathetic,” Sheriff David Clarke told AIM that the media have “… become the propaganda wing or the propaganda machine of the Democrat party. So they’re now heavily steeped into politics and because of it they cannot objectively report stuff, they have to do it with a slant […]
“As leftists, as people who care about the future of humanity, our core task is to build this movement, but bigger than that our task is to build a left,” Black Lives Matter founder Alicia Garza said at the 2015 Left Forum. Alicia Garza, Opal Tometi, and Patrisse Cullors founded the Black Lives Matter movement […]
Last week, Black Lives Matter co-founder Opal Tometi declared to the United Nations, “ … I would argue that the international community faces 3 core challenges to advancing human rights. Those are: global capitalism; [sic] white supremacy and the suppression of democracy.” Opal Tometi started the Black Lives Matter movement in 2013 with Alicia Garza and […]
The Black Lives Matter movement “…doesn’t care any more about the lives of black people than the Ku Klux Klan … ” Sheriff David Clarke asserted during an interview with Accuracy in Media. “Black Lives Matter, which I have renamed ‘Black Lies’ L-I-E-S Matter, it’s nothing more than an astroturf operation, it’s just the latest […]
Police officers fear being prosecuted for performing their duties Sheriff David Clarke explained saying, “…they’re not afraid to do their job, but they’re afraid of … the United States Department of Justice and their jack-booted goon lawyers at the civil rights division who have the American police officer in their crosshairs.” While the Black Lives […]
