Pookie and Ray ray? Lol go back to storm front
Black Lives Matter Flopped
I started to do a thread on this TIME article, but it's coincidental this thread came up because there was a line in the article regarding BLM that made me 
Very good article on the Black vote and the DNC. Still, as it pertains to this thread and BLM, the following excerpt I found interesting.
The Black Vote: History Demands Strategy
Not only has the Democratic Party captured the black vote, but it appears that the party has captured many civil rights leaders and organizations as well. Many of these leaders and organizations appear to operate as appendages to the Democratic Party rather than as independent advocates. In the past seven years, it has been difficult at times to discern whether they are surrogates for the Obama Administration or nonpartisan guardians of community interests. But rest assured, this November—as they do ritually every four years—civil rights leaders and organizations will by default rally African Americans for the Democratic Party, commanding them to “vote as if your lives depended on it.” And they will be helped along by the policy stances and racist rhetoric of Donald Trump and the Republican Party. The aim is to get us to vote from a place of fear instead of a position of power.
As the Obama presidency winds down, the shallowness of this arrangement has become apparent. Other key Democratic-leaning interest groups were knocking at the President’s door with agenda items for him to act on after he was elected in 2008 and re-elected in 2012. Yet it took a coalition of civil rights organizations—headed by Al Sharpton of the National Action Network, Marc Morial of the National Urban League, Ben Jealous, then president of the NAACP, and Melanie Campbell of the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation—four years and nine months to deliver an agenda for black America to Obama. BLM has done more in two years to elevate the need for criminal-justice reform than a two‐term black Democrat in the White House, civil rights leaders, the more than 40 black members of Congress and the scores of black delegates and party leaders at the 2008 and 2012 Democratic Conventions combined.
Very good article on the Black vote and the DNC. Still, as it pertains to this thread and BLM, the following excerpt I found interesting. The Black Vote: History Demands Strategy
Not only has the Democratic Party captured the black vote, but it appears that the party has captured many civil rights leaders and organizations as well. Many of these leaders and organizations appear to operate as appendages to the Democratic Party rather than as independent advocates. In the past seven years, it has been difficult at times to discern whether they are surrogates for the Obama Administration or nonpartisan guardians of community interests. But rest assured, this November—as they do ritually every four years—civil rights leaders and organizations will by default rally African Americans for the Democratic Party, commanding them to “vote as if your lives depended on it.” And they will be helped along by the policy stances and racist rhetoric of Donald Trump and the Republican Party. The aim is to get us to vote from a place of fear instead of a position of power.
As the Obama presidency winds down, the shallowness of this arrangement has become apparent. Other key Democratic-leaning interest groups were knocking at the President’s door with agenda items for him to act on after he was elected in 2008 and re-elected in 2012. Yet it took a coalition of civil rights organizations—headed by Al Sharpton of the National Action Network, Marc Morial of the National Urban League, Ben Jealous, then president of the NAACP, and Melanie Campbell of the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation—four years and nine months to deliver an agenda for black America to Obama. BLM has done more in two years to elevate the need for criminal-justice reform than a two‐term black Democrat in the White House, civil rights leaders, the more than 40 black members of Congress and the scores of black delegates and party leaders at the 2008 and 2012 Democratic Conventions combined.
Maybe so, but still no change has been seen in the real world
When you realize that the founders of BLM have a disdain for straight black men(because they are all lesbians), but love to use us to get their checks, you will realize why they are a fraud.
ndthentherewasx
El Capitan
Aside from protesting and gathering, what did you want them to do?
How extreme are you asking others to go?
How extreme are you asking others to go?
I agree, but then again Rome didn't fall in a day either. Still, credit has to be given in that BLM along with modern technology in the form of cell phones has created significant dialogue on the matter of police brutality. They've done more to advance national dialogue on that subject than the combined efforts of all modern day Black politicians and interest groups.
What makes it so fascinating is that it really is a mess of a movement. I'm not a fan of them considering I find feminism to be anti-Black. I'm not homophobic or transphobic either, but I believe BLM's inclusion of those subjects dilutes what should be their main objective. That being the lives of Black men. Still, gotta give credit where it's due as they've got people talking. They've been so successful that even activists not associated with them are lumped in with them inadvertently (not always inadvertently though).
GetInTheTruck
Member
Their demands make no sense. You can't demand political power, you have to take it, and that means excluding non-blacks if they are really serious about making moves. Too many chefs spoil the broth.
I guess....just depends on your definition of success. What I see is most white people turning their nose up.
(from your own link
Words Unfit for Office : Normalcy
Words Unfit for Office
The ‘flubs' that got presidents (and candidates) in trouble with the critics
"Normalcy"
“I have looked for ‘normality’ in my dictionary, and I do not find it there. ‘Normalcy,’ however, I did find, and it is a good word.” — Warren G. Harding, quoted in The New York Times, 21 July 1920
About the Word:
In the presidential election of 1920 Warren G. Harding (or someone working for him) came up with what must have seemed like a fine campaign slogan, a ‘return to normalcy.’ However, the word was unfamiliar to many people, and was widely considered to be an error on Harding’s part. (Both normalcy and normality in fact date to the mid-1800's.)
There was a feeling that Harding’s command of the English language was perhaps less than one might hope for in a President. The famed critic H.L. Mencken took particular delight in savaging Harding’s use of the language (Mencken referred to it as Gamalielese, after Harding’s middle name, Gamaliel): “There is, I have a notion, a foul conspiracy among words to pull Dr. Harding’s legs from under him. He has tortured them for years…. He has forced them into strange and abhorrent marriages. He has stretched them as is they were chewing-gum.”
Despite the widespread opposition to the use of normalcy to mean normality, Harding had the last laugh, as this sense has come to be widely accepted.
"Normalcy" = "Bling Bling"
So what you're saying is that in 2016 (which is when I used it), it is a word.
Yes they can. They just don't want black people talking about black issues. They get it. They're just mad they can't say white lives matter.
I mean, they even sparked a brother to do more than protest and in fact go to the extreme.
HollowPoints2
Don Makaveli.
Hey,if the movement was really serious about black lives mattering then they will be equally upset about the daily homicides taking place between black people on a routine basis.Da fukk are you talking abou?
Da fukk does any of that have to do with not being held accountable for breaking the gotdamn rules? Or what does any of that have to do with racial equality? Complete nonsense.
Therefore,until black Americans can show that we value each other's lives by not killing each other everyday, you can't expect anybody with a to any group why black lives matter seriously.