BLM Is The Civil Rights Movement II

Submitted by Meteor Man on Wed, 07/20/2016 - 11:21am

Building on my previous post: http://caucus99percent.com/content/blm-civil-rights-movement

Today I ran across a background analysis that supports my position:

It’s not news that Donald Trump’s politics are driven by delusions, or that his delusions are often racist. But Trump was hardly alone in demonizing and attacking Black Lives Matter. Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani — a staunch Trump supporter — repeatedly claimed that Black Lives Matter was “inherently racist,” saying that it “puts a target on the back of police,” and Republican Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick even blamed previous Black Lives Matter protests for the shootings themselves, while the Drudge Report simply announced that “Black Lives Kill,” and Sean Hannity claimed, “Black Lives Matter is not the answer. They only make things worse because their advancing narrative is killing cops.”

Yep. Crazy black people encouraging all good Americans to start killing cops.

The summer of 1964 also saw the first wave urban riots, a year before Watts, and pollsters began to ask about them as well. I end my survey here precisely because I want to limit it to the period that is most unambiguously praised today. Yet, in every single poll that was conducted in this period of time, an overwhelming majority of adults were opposed to precisely those actions that changed America, riding it of a past that we’re now ashamed to even admit ever existed. Overall, people welcomed those changes. But overwhelmingly, they opposed the very actions needed to bring them about.

It's good to have goals, but do you have to be so demanding and persistent? Write a letter to the editor! Call your local CongressCritter! Vote! See how well that works?

We can still see that same level of opposition today—but only if we confine ourselves to looking at white Republicans. To America’s credit, today, twice as many people support Black Lives Matter than oppose it—the exact opposite of how opinion lined up in the early 1960s. But, to America’s shame, Black Lives Matter is every bit as necessary today as the Civil Rights Movement was back then. We still have an enormous amount of work to be done to make good on Langston Hughes’ oath that “America will be!”

Here you go:
http://www.salon.com/2016/07/20/think_black_lives_matter_is_divisive_the...

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Submitted by Meteor Man on Wed, 07/20/2016 - 12:03pm

Million Hoodies Movement For Justice & BLM

Targeting FOP:

The Black Youth Project 100, Million Hoodies Movement for Justice, and Black Lives Matter occupied police union offices in Washington, D.C. and New York City Wednesday morning, as part of a new #FreedomNow campaign against police violence. The groups’ foremost demands are police accountability and a greater push to defund law enforcement.

Isn't that special?

Activists in the nation’s capital blocked off an entrance to the National Fraternal Order of Police (FOP). According to the BYP 100 website, members of its DC chapter and BLM DC are there to demand that cops stop paying dues to the union.
“The FOP acts like a college fraternity and is responsible for maintaining the harmful, lethal, unethical, and unaccountable culture of policing while the families and communities impacted when officers brutalize civilians are left to mourn with little, if any, semblance of justice,” BYP 100 spokeswoman Clarise McCants said. “Just like college frats that further rape culture by closing ranks to protect members who are sexual assailants, the FOP has proven that their primary commitment is to protect the worst of their members behind the ‘Blue Wall of Silence’ – even in the most heinous of circumstances. The FOP is the most dangerous fraternity in America and they need to be stopped.”

Check it out!

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2016/07/20/3800148/activists-occupy-pol...

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Submitted by elenacarlena on Wed, 07/20/2016 - 7:20pm

Sounds reasonable to me.

Police unions have been hideous in some of the police brutality cases.

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Submitted by Meteor Man on Wed, 07/20/2016 - 12:20pm

Black Voices Explain BLM

In Two Minutes:

http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_578e897fe4b04ca54ebf2558

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"They'll say we're disturbing the peace, but there is no peace. What really bothers them is that we are disturbing the war." Howard Zinn

Submitted by hecate on Wed, 07/20/2016 - 12:34pm

rudy's

just going with the current flow. The go-to tactic these days for racists—on both the right and the left—is to ululate that it is people with melanin who are racist.

So boring. So stupid.

Submitted by Meteor Man on Wed, 07/20/2016 - 4:52pm

The Deification of Police

The deification of police officers is part of American consciousness—a part of greater American identity.

This worship of police officers, and of their use of force, has led to the recent adoption of the “Blue Lives Matter” slogan. The long-held belief that officers symbolize a “thin blue line,” one that protects civilians from criminals, or maintains order, is possibly the clearest example of this deification.

And

Once the classic method of lynching was the rope. Now it is the policeman’s bullet. To many an American the police are the government, certainly its most visible representative. We submit that the evidence suggests that the killing of Negroes has become police policy in the United States and that police policy is the most practical expression of government policy. [emphasis added]

Executing black men, women and children is unacknowledged police policy.

https://shadowproof.com/2016/07/11/black-struggle-americas-deification-p...

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"They'll say we're disturbing the peace, but there is no peace. What really bothers them is that we are disturbing the war." Howard Zinn