For true liberation, Black Lives Matter is not enough

[Poitier]

You go to congress to get sentencing guidelines changed, you are not gonna talk about unfair hiring practices.

Sure you would. Felons go right back into the system without jobs.

 

[KOohbt]

Wow. I guess that'll show BLM for trying to improve the condition and lives of black folk in this country. I guess since these brothas and sistas didnt assume responsibility for every issue concerning black people, and come up with a foolproof way to address these centuries old issues with one fell swoop like a magic wand then they are open to ridicule. Kinda like a doctor being savaged for fighting for a cure for aids, and not addressing cancer, heart disease, and the common cold while he's at it. Black folk are a fukkin trip.

 

[Elle Driver]

Sure you would. Felons go right back into the system without jobs.

It goes hand in hand but he don't even know realize it.

 

[MeachTheMonster]

Sure you would. Felons go right back into the system without jobs.

That's an ancillary topic that would support the cause, but it would not be the main thing talked about.

Just like BLM has talked a lot about poverty and inequality, but those aren't their main goals

http://sentencingproject.org/doc/publications/rd_Black_Lives_Matter.pdf

The roots of this disparity precede criminal justice contact: conditions of socioeconomic inequality contribute to higher rates of certain violent and property crimes among people of color. But four features of the justice system exacerbate this underlying disparity:

 

[MeachTheMonster]

It goes hand in hand but he don't even know realize it.

Who said it doesn't go hand in hand?

More strawmen I see

 

[Poitier]

That's an ancillary topic that would support the cause, but it would not be the main thing talked about.

Just like BLM has talked a lot about poverty and inequality, but those aren't their main goals

http://sentencingproject.org/doc/publications/rd_Black_Lives_Matter.pdf

We both saw the video of BLM and Hilary

 

[MeachTheMonster]

We both saw the video of BLM and Hilary

That was a bad look no question.

but as I said, they took that criticism and improved with things like what I posted above

 

[feelosofer]

I'll take it a step futher. BLM has been detrimental to the cause, imo.

 

[Easy-E]

The way I see it; damn white people liking us, gives us our forty acres and leave us alone.

Any one who doesn't think my life matter is gonna change their opinion by making them embarrassed.

Even worse, though, is the “Herstory” section. It is hard for me to describe its maddening pointlessness except to note that this “Black liberation movement” spends about 60 percent of its “herstory” railing against “appropriation” and brand theft. It is awe-inspiring only in its myopia and its stark irrelevance to the actual struggles of the Black working class.

This. @ complaining about "twerking" becoming a Miley Cyrus thing and Nicki Minaj being discriminated against because of the size of her synthetic butt.

Douglas Williams is a PhD student in political science at Wayne State University, where he researches labor policy and working-class radical movements. A native of Suffolk, Virginia, he writes about these topics and more at The South Lawn.

And we need more black professor making waves in these movements. Not a bunch of liberals who use Twitter.

 

[DMGAINGREEN]

I'll take it a step futher. BLM has been detrimental to the cause, imo.

It's diverting cats attention from the real problem

 

[iFightSeagullsForBread]

If you're truly about black liberation, you'd be committing suicide to alienate the activist wing of BLM. That's who you would want to stand up when shyt hits the goddamn fan. Why you do you think protest, and activist groups like Black Bloc in Europe are a big deal, especially when they click up with the recent student groups protesting the tuition hikes and dwindling job market? You want that mobility, I'd say BLM works even better seeing as how they lack a figurehead, and have these various sects within a sociology-philosophical movement.

You saw what went down in the Baltimore riots, they didn't cower, scurry off and write think pieces, they charged the goddamn SWAT head on.

But @Poitier brings up a very good point, if you're passionate about these issues concerning Black-Americans, why the increased attention to triviality such as Miley Cyrus twerking and emphasis on cultural appropriation (a very double edged sword imo) instead of more pressing matters.

On the flip side tho, why did this author seek an agenda, that BLM never brought to the forefront in the first place? They should've took further insight into why BLM was more concerned with violence in regards to black americans, gay or straight than deindustrialization and a service based economy. She had her expectations up for a end game that wasn't pinpointed from the jump.

Tho I will say this...we are living in a vibrant, unpredictable philosophical time as black Americans.

On one end we have the alleged, pampered, myopic Social Authoritarians hell-bent on proving their humanity to a patriarchal, hemorrhaging racist system; on the other end the entrepreneurial, economical nationalist, reeling at the reality of having to exploit one of many viruses of white supremacy (capitalism) for either their own personal or communal gains under the delusion of prosperity.




Then there's everyone in the middle. Only question is: Will the zealots of both these budding rival ideologies find a common ground and unify...or will they move even further apart. With the majority caught in the middle of their ongoing squabbles.

 

[zyonasan]

Black lives matters isn't enough nor will it change anything because there's not structure to the movement

1. People interpret the quote as if it implies that black lives matter more than other lives when its really; black lives matter....too
2. The lack of structure. Those two girls that interrupted Bernie Sanders rally ranting about whatever they felt like and claiming they were a part of BLM, even though Sanders has tried to do more for the black community (as far back as the civil rights movement) than they ever have

BLM, is just like the "1%" folks protesting. Noone really knew what they stood for, so they kinda just fizzled out. Some were radical communists, some just wanted higher wages for entry level jobs some wanted Wall Street Bankers to serve jail time for the housing bubble burst in 08' and some were just opportunist that used the crowd of protesters to break into stores and steal shyt.