Symbolic activism, but will anything come from it? Before a Heat-76ers game at Miami’s AmericanAirlines Arena, Denasia Lawrence stood at midcourt as an announcer asked the crowd to rise while introducing her. She then unbuttoned her turquoise jacket, revealing a “Black Lives Matter” shirt underneath, got on one knee and performed the song. To all of […]
Doesn’t flying the ‘Black Lives Matter’ flag validates vandalism and property destruction? Illinois State University celebrated the Black Lives Matter movement by flying its official flag on campus throughout the day Monday. “Proud of our students and community,” one school administrator, Vice President for Student Affairs Levester Johnson, tweeted with an image of students gathered […]
Rashad Turner, a failed congressional candidate in the state of Minnesota and who forced a longtime special education teacher named Theo Olson to retire over a Facebook post, is now separated from the Black Lives Matter movement over their stance on charter schools. In the reports about his about-face from the national activist umbrella of Black […]
From Campus Reform: The University of California, Irvine is sponsoring a “Black Lives Matter Writing Contest,” but warns students to carefully consider “the effects of their words” before submitting an entry. The contest, which is subtitled “A Conversation about Black Connections: How to overcome internal and external violence,” is being co-sponsored by the Department of […]
Wasn’t the ‘New Deal’ a failure, historically speaking? Also, the Great Society was supposed to cure society’s ills, so what would a new ‘New Deal’ do for the black American community? This from the Daily Caller: The activists in the meeting repeatedly called for a New Deal that targets black communities. “This idea that we […]
From the Daily Caller article on the private meeting between Black Lives Matter activists and Hillary Clinton: One attendee in the meeting told Hillary, “And so we can’t have a conversation about eradicating police issues without talking about eradicating implicit bias and eradicating anti-blackness within the DNA code of policing.” In her response, Hillary said, […]
It’s quite a rebuttal from the Democratic Party presidential nominee, in a private meeting with Black Lives Matter activists: During one part of the meeting, Clinton said that affirmative action had worked to which an attendee said, “You know affirmative action pretty much helps white women not people of color.” “That is not my understanding. […]
The Daily Caller has a great write-up on a leaked transcript of the meeting between several Black Lives Matter activists, such as DeRay Mckesson, and Hillary Clinton: The October 2015 meeting was kept under wraps by the Clinton campaign, who withheld a list of attendees or quotes from the meeting. The day of the meeting […]
In a private meeting between Hillary Clinton and some Black Lives Matter activists, it got quite contentious when the activists brought up the issue of policing, according to a Wikileaks e-mail dump. Check out this piece of news from the Daily Caller: The attendees were hostile with Clinton at points. “I think that you’re really speaking for […]
The Clinton campaign met with several Black Lives Matter activists on October 9, 2015, but did not name who they met with. One of the invited attendees, DeRay Mckesson, posted a tweet and two pictures of the meeting and tagged others who attended. Why the secrecy? Only recently did we learn what happened in the […]