MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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What Happened To Black Lives Matter?
By barefooted on Thu, 06/22/2017 - 12:46pm |It’s helpful to describe what “the movement” is in the most basic terms: There’s no way to tell how many people call themselves Black Lives Matter activists in the United States. Activists, largely dispersed across the country but concentrated in some cities or regions more than others, largely communicate online. There is a large coalition of groups called the Movement for Black Lives; some of the activists whose names you might recognize (like Garza) lead that coalition, but others (like Campaign Zero’s DeRay Mckesson, Brittany Packnett, Samuel Sinyangwe, and its army of loyalists) aren’t involved in it. There are no universal meetings. There is no centralized, national organization called Black Lives Matter.
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just thanks for posting this!
Edit to add two cross-links to stories I've posted on related threads here, in case any outside readers should find their way to this post. On other organizations attempting to address the problem or related problems:
on the Center for Policing Equity
on the Art for Justice foundation
by artappraiser on Thu, 06/22/2017 - 4:48pm
Black Lives Matter played a role in the DOJ investigating questionable deaths in Baltimore and Ferguson. The DOJ reviews noted racial bias in both departments. The Eric Holder DOJ initiated a review of the St Anthony PD.We see if the DOJ review still happens in this era of Trump.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/doj-review-st-anthony-police-department-philand...
Jeff Sessions has said he will reverse the DOJ trend of police department oversight.
Here is the recording of the 4-year old girl in the car when Castile was shot. She pleads with her mom not the get "shooted"
Obviously, no reason to protest this tragedy.
http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-video-diamond-reynolds-daughter-2017...
The PD will pay out a settlement and things will go back to the status quo.
We saw change with protests.
Edit to add:
Having no top down leadership was always going to be a problem for BLM. The organization did push Democrats to address issues of police abuse. BLM was obviously not perfect. If people are giddy about the organization losing clout, people may conclude that the giddy were not allies anyway.
by rmrd0000 on Fri, 06/23/2017 - 11:52am
BLM was a hashtag and a few protests, as a good idea that got butchered by never organizing and the right's successful slandering of them and playing them as unpatriotic. The protests came out amateurish and counterproductive, like "who are these kids and do we want such unserious people jamming up the works?", and that was on the left. Then there was Sean King, who kinda wasnt BLM but flagged the association for whatever cause and tweet and TV appearance he could muster. So we've had #OWS and #BLM as 2 large tries at protest that disintegrated, and that was with a Democratic administration. Hopefully the women's march tied to the D word roots organizing is going somewhere (but the fact that I can't even remember their name doesn't intuit promise)
by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 06/24/2017 - 7:42am
The D word? Do you mean the Indivisible campaign?
by barefooted on Sat, 06/24/2017 - 11:14am