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No one paid attention in 2016

rmrd0000 — Fri, 16 Jul 2021 20:29:46 +0000

In reply to Nobody noticed back in Nov.

No one paid attention in 2016, because BLM is not regarded as being knowledgeable on anything other than police abuse.

When it comes to police abuse, very few take calls for abolition of police seriously.

Professor Gates did a PBS series on Blacks in Latin America that discussed racism in Cuba.

https://www.pbs.org/wnet/black-in-latin-america/

BLM has been criticized for it's praise for Fidel, including by Afro-Cubans.

“It was surprising to me that Black Lives Matter came out with a statement focusing solely on the U.S. and not talking about why all of those folks are protesting, not coming out in solidarity of Black folks on the ground who are protesting,” said Danielle Clealand, associate professor of Mexican American and Latina/o studies at the University of Texas at Austin and the author of "The Power of Race in Cuba."

The BLM organization involved updated its statement.

In an email to NBC News, Black Lives Matter officials said their statement was “grounded in our unequivocal support for Cuba,” and vowed to amplify the voices of Afro-Cuban protesters protesting oppression “from all actors, including the United States Embargo.”

“We unequivocally join in solidarity with the Cuban people against repression and violence from internal and unseen external actors,” officials said in the statement. “We also understand that Anti-Blackness exists within Cuba and is a Global issue. We struggle for and alongside Black people across the diaspora for liberation and self-sovereignty.”

In its original message, BLM noted that Black and brown people make up a large portion of the Cuban population. The country's 2012 Census reported that Black people made up 9.3 percent of Cuba’s 11.1 million population.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/black-lives-matter-faces-backlash-statement-cuba-protest-rcna1438

BLM is not the go to source for position papers on Cuba.

Nobody noticed back in Nov.

artappraiser — Fri, 16 Jul 2021 18:30:36 +0000

In reply to BLM: "When we say #DefundThePolice, we mean abolition..."

Nobody noticed back at the end of Nov. 2016 when BLM wrote and tweeted a loving ode to Fidel Castro's vision -

Lessons from Fidel: Black Lives Matter and the Transition of El Comandante https://t.co/CYTcy6ReIa
— Black Lives Matter (@Blklivesmatter) November 27, 2016

If they had many more would be wary of labeling protests about George Floyd video with their name.

They have been and continue to be consistent though

Black Lives Matter has released a statement on Cuba: pic.twitter.com/NgnT1o1oZE
— Sabrina Rodríguez (@sabrod123) July 15, 2021

It's not been their fault if people have misinterpreted their messages.and goals, which are basically anarcho-communist, and used their name as if they didn't have such messages and goals.

It's just that I wonder: did anybody tell them that the Castro regime and his followers have found police forces and jails and prisons to be very useful tools in maintaining the "people's revolution"?

"every buck you take, every

PeraclesPlease — Sun, 09 May 2021 19:16:00 +0000

In reply to BLM Co-Founder Patrisse

"every buck you take, every muck you rake..." she don't have to turn on her red light... time to send out an SOS?

BLM Co-Founder Patrisse

artappraiser — Sun, 09 May 2021 18:53:39 +0000

In reply to BLM: "When we say #DefundThePolice, we mean abolition..."

BLM Co-Founder Patrisse Cullors Has Funneled Business To Company Run By Father Of Her Only Child, Records Show https://t.co/PalGzKuxzP via @dailycaller
— Mollie (@MZHemingway) May 9, 2021

right wing watching every little thing she does, to paraphrase Sting

Crosslink: turns out many of

artappraiser — Sun, 25 Apr 2021 18:04:59 +0000

In reply to BLM: "When we say #DefundThePolice, we mean abolition..."

Crosslink: turns out many of your stylings have been enormously counter-productive

re: abolishing prisons

artappraiser — Sun, 25 Apr 2021 18:02:37 +0000

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re: abolishing prisons

SF DA Chesa Boudin has been doing everything he can to refuse to incarcerate offenders. There's a cost to that. https://t.co/VqAQK7gIT9
— Zaid Jilani (@ZaidJilani) April 24, 2021

MANY THANKS due to Jim

artappraiser — Fri, 23 Apr 2021 03:34:29 +0000

In reply to BLM: "When we say #DefundThePolice, we mean abolition..."

MANY THANKS due to Jim Clyburn and others who read the riot act to lefties in the Dem party about using BLM fucking "defund" and "abolish" slogans until the Georgia Senate race was done:

Kamala Harris is already casting tie-breaking votes at a historic clip. https://t.co/zV50b6BiWx pic.twitter.com/8U6wJPBoDh
— Philip Bump (@pbump) April 23, 2021

The email from Phil Berk, who

artappraiser — Tue, 20 Apr 2021 04:10:34 +0000

In reply to BLM: "When we say #DefundThePolice, we mean abolition..."

The email from Phil Berk, who served 8 terms as Hollywood Foreign Press Assn. president, called BLM a “racist hate movement.”

And the email described BLM co-founder Patrisse Cullors as a “self-proclaimed ‘trained Marxist.’” More:https://t.co/gHYDNKmkSl
— Los Angeles Times (@latimes) April 19, 2021

not official BLM, but very

artappraiser — Mon, 19 Apr 2021 16:58:55 +0000

In reply to BLM: "When we say #DefundThePolice, we mean abolition..."

not official BLM, but very much a fellow traveler:

When a majority of the Black working class supports defunding or abolishing the police I will believe this analysis. For now, I don't see the evidence for it. Can you point me to a poll that suggests I'm wrong? https://t.co/Tw9RMMIXHk
— Conor Friedersdorf (@conor64) April 14, 2021

She's projecting. At this point, it's the arguments for defund/abolish that are tired and microwave reheated. There has been no attempt to address the criticisms - just repeat repeat repeat.
— Manzell Beezy (@BeezyManzell) April 14, 2021

If everyone has 4 houses

ocean-kat — Sat, 17 Apr 2021 20:20:29 +0000

In reply to "Living Wage" = 4 houses

If everyone has 4 houses worth $3..2 million everyone is equal. I'm sure she has a plan for that eventually happening so what's the problem?