Black Lives Matter Activist Deray Running For Baltimore Mayor

[EndDomination]

You couldn't name 1 thing.

He worked with two other researchers and collected the data for the police shootings in 2014, which showed that the government-published statistics were lower than the reality.
He's one of the only solid voice on the rag that is now the Huffington Post.
He is one of the organizers for the various protests all over the US, and regardless of the Coli view of BLM, they still have the largest on-the-ground actions of any group in the US right now.

 

[Poitier]

He worked with two other researchers and collected the data for the police shootings in 2014, which showed that the government-published statistics were lower than the reality.

So police brutality is his only platform and where is this legislation you spoke of?

 

[Paper Boi]

I'm an actual policy analyst dumbass
I can confidently say that I have a far greater knowledge of specialist interest groups and their political ties than anyone else on theColi, save for a few posters who have jobs in the industry.
You guys are making off-colour remarks making it sound like you're in on some grand White-conspiracy, when you're all honestly clueless.
I don't have to "sound smart," I just happen to actually know what I'm talking about

 

[Zero]

 

[KodeBlue]

If the average Baltimorean thinks like you the city is done. You have to make small steps when it comes to giving out tax breaks/credit because that's how you pay civil employees and keep utilities running. If you go giving everyone breaks the city will not be able to balance its books.



What were you saying about business now?

Reduce taxes and the people will come. Millennials and empty nesters want to move to the city, which is practically the trend everywhere. Baltimore has had poor money management for years now, and that's just one reason why the taxes for the "working class" of the city is so high. Anyone who's remotely business savvy will start by cutting programs that produce almost no result, yet drains the budget. From there you give tax breaks/credits, from there you make the city a business friendly climate, and from there the rest falls into place... You should be writing this stuff down lil nikka

 

[Cadillac]

That pic with MB's dad this nikka again has that blue vest on.

 

[The_King_of_Everything]

BLM is a joke tbh

 

[KodeBlue]

Yeah i'm more shocked about Sheila running again to be honest

Me too... The bytch is a theif

 

[Red Shield]

Didn't that cac thief Shaun King allude to this back in December when he was beefing with Deray?

wouldn't be surprised... they all probably know eachother's dirt

 

[The_King_of_Everything]

I got some connects in Baltimore I need to talk to some folks on that side

 

[Aufheben]

I'm an actual policy analyst dumbass
I can confidently say that I have a far greater knowledge of specialist interest groups and their political ties than anyone else on theColi, save for a few posters who have jobs in the industry.
You guys are making off-colour remarks making it sound like you're in on some grand White-conspiracy, when you're all honestly clueless.
I don't have to "sound smart," I just happen to actually know what I'm talking about

um breh the phenomenon of black leadership being co-opted to stifle change deemed too radical is well documented

read this: Dear #BlackLivesMatter: We Don’t Need Black Leadership

me, @Poitier and others was just talking about this last week, discussing when Adolph Reed called the same thing

Adolph Reed on Sanders, Coates and Reparations | Outrages and Interludes

 

[Dwayne_Taylor]

So what is Deray's platform......all the Black candidates are already hyper-cognizant of police brutality

Answered your own question

 

[Poitier]

Answered your own question

Wait, you think Baltimore of all cities wasn't aware of police brutality before Deray?

 

[EndDomination]

i'm someone with a BA in poli sci that could have easily gotten into a PhD program basically anywhere i applied to in the country if we want to tout our expertise, but i chose to switch up and study demography instead for my post-grad. you don't have much legs to stand on with me breh.

i'm not making off color remarks. there's a lot to suggest that BLM is a special interest group with motives that have little to do with police brutality. this guy who seems to have spent 0.0% of his adult life in baltimore is now running for mayor in a major city in america. he has a powerful political movement backing him which again has demonstrated other motives over the past 2 years. not to mention it's getting publicity in major publications straight off the top.

if you really know as much about politics as you claim then you'd know that donors/interest groups/parties will scout people out all the time and put them up to run so they can push their agenda. i've worked on campaigns where the person running was obviously just there to push and advocate for whatever agenda was put in front of him. this is ESPECIALLY common at local levels so yeah i'm not sure why you're acting like this has to be some grand conspiracy.

There is nothing at all to suggest that the "group has motives that have little to do with police brutality," in fact, that's been the platform they've focused most heavily on, and the issue they have the most visibility on.
http://sentencingproject.org/doc/publications/rd_Black_Lives_Matter.pdf
They've been focusing on unequal sentencing, the murders of both Black men and women by police officers and in "correctional facilities" the high murder rate of LGBTQ Black men and women, unfair university policy (we worked with them on my campus as well as two other campuses in Cleveland), investments in private prisons and marijuana decriminalization (as it disproportionately affects Black men and women). And he's a visible public figure, hence why he's getting publicity in major publications. The same thing would happen for anyone with "Twitter fame."
I'm starting to think a lot of people have no understanding of just how popular BLM is or just how well known their Spokespeople are.
This guy isn't Tariq Nasheed or Umar Johnson, he's working for a civil rights group that is gaining traction around the world. And that's not hyperbole.

 

[EndDomination]

So police brutality is his only platform and where is this legislation you spoke of?

http://sentencingproject.org/doc/publications/rd_Black_Lives_Matter.pdf
Start with page 21, though I highly doubt you'll actually read.
Enacting “Black Lives Matter” into law This is a little bit shorter.
Black Lives Matter Gets Laws Passed In 24 States This is also an example of something they were working with.
I honestly want more responses from people who are heavily involved in visible activism, most of the time when I'm commenting I'm the only one going to national conventions, in major cities protesting, getting institutional procedure changed, signing petitions, etc.