desertrain10;8312150 said:
Please close this thread
BLM is a slogan, not the movement, or the grievance that underlies it
Reducing a movement to its slogan, and then nitpicking that slogan to discredit it, is deeply dishonest to say the least
This isn't really true. Black Lives Matter has become a formal organization with branches popping up throughout the country. So people can criticize the organization and the people claiming to act on it's behalf. That's actually not a bad thing because I'm pretty sure there isn't much regulation whatsoever within that organization, which means that its important for all of us to be mindful of what people are doing on behalf of that organization being that for right now they probably have the loudest voice among black activist groups.
On another note, something that a lot of people don't seem to get is that you can't protest black on black violence the way you can protest police brutality. If a particular police department has a history of racism, you can go to that site and picket and demand something be done, and there are avenues for change to be made in response to that protest. If someone kills a little black girl in a drive by, what is protesting going to accomplish? Drug dealers and gang bangers don't give a fuck about that. Maybe your hope would be that authorities would stand up and put in measures, but that wouldn't make everyone happy either. Case in point, here in DC the mayor announced her plan to reduce crime. Part of it involved increased police presence in problem areas and
part of it involved investing into those communities in an effort to create jobs and opportunity. The latter was drowned out because in response to the former, some people got up hand heckled her incessantly barely letting her get her message across. Those people were reportedly members of the DC's Black Lives Matter group, which takes me back to my first point.
http://washington.cbslocal.com/2015...ition-at-announcement-for-violent-crime-plan/