Grief-stricken mothers who have accused Black Lives Matter of profiting from the deaths of their sons condemned the group’s embattled co-founder Patrisse Cullors after she announced she was stepping down from the movement.
“I don’t believe she is going anywhere,” Samaria Rice, the mother of a 12-year-old boy shot by Cleveland police while playing with a toy gun, told The Post. “It’s all a facade. She’s only saying that to get the heat off her right now.”
Former Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best suggested that the media wasn’t honest about the “mostly peaceful protests” in Seattle’s “Capitol Hill Organized Protest” (CHOP zone), also briefly called the not-so-cool cool-sounding CHAZ, (Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone).
The embattled co-founder of Black Lives Matter announced on Thursday that she’s resigning as executive director amid criticism over her lavish lifestyle.
Patrisse Cullors, 37 — who has been at the helm of the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation for nearly six years — said she is leaving to focus on a book and TV deal.
Her last day with the foundation is Friday.
In his book on John F. Kennedy, Profile of Power, Richard Reeves writes about the late president’s concerns about communist influence over the civil rights movement. Reeves describes a meeting at which Kennedy asked Martin Luther King Jr. to fire two advisers, Stanley Levison and Hunter Pitts O’Dell. “They’re Communists, you’ve got to get rid of them,” Kennedy told King.
Famously the “whitest city in America,” Portland has become the unlikely headquarters of race radicalism in the United States. The city has elevated white guilt into a civic religion; its citizens have developed rituals, devotions, and self-criticisms to fight “systemic racism” and “white supremacy.” The culminating expression of this orthodoxy is violence: street militias, calling themselves “antiracists” and “antifascists,” smash windows and torch the property of anyone transgressing the new moral law.
“Cause we’re tired of being shot and killed because we’re gonna get pulled over for air fresheners,” the woman said in the video clip. “I’m waiting for one of those motherf-ckers to pull me over. Cause, baby, where I’m from, we don’t give two f-cks about the police. Let them kill one of ours. Guess what we doing? We kill one of theirs in Chicago, baby, they continue. We gonna knock on your door. We gonna blow your motherf-cking head off.”
One year on: how a gruesome murder became a catalyst for a regressive new politics.
It’s one year since George Floyd was murdered. Since Derek Chauvin forced his knee on to Floyd as he gasped for air and cried for his mother. Since that image of a cavalier cop and a desperate black man was beamed around the world, horrifying everyone who saw it. And it’s one year since the killing of Floyd started to morph into something else. Since it started to become a symbol, a weapon even, which was then marshalled to a broader cause. We might call it the revenge of the elites – the exploitation of Floyd’s death to reprimand populism and to further institutionalise the regressive, controlling politics of identity.
… Police stated yesterday that Miss Johnson was shot in the head in a ‘melee’ that also saw a fellow partygoer knifed when a gang of four young black men stormed into a Peckham garden with 30 people inside and opened fire.
Commander Alison Heydari made an appeal for anyone who knows the identity of the gunmen to come forward – but insisted that there was no evidence the BLM activist was the true target.
In a lengthy response to the statement, the Taking the Initiative Party accused the police force of ‘exercising damage control’ and dismissing death threats made to Miss Johnson in the weeks before she was shot.
‘The statement that there is nothing to suggest that Sasha was the victim of a targeted attack is entirely presumptuous, not taking into account that a bullet being shot into someone’s head is entirely too accurate and precise to be an accidental shot.’
Even a bullet is capable of a racist trajectory!
Americans in the heartland only believe this summer’s Black Lives Matter protests turned 2020 into a uniquely violent year, because they “live in a Fox News/Newsmax/OAN bubble,” where stations played the same “violent outbreaks on a loop,” according to MSNBC and the New York Times.
Pressley said, “Qualified immunity is an unjust doctrine that has been codified in statute after statute, that has allowed for law enforcement to operate with callous disregard for Black and brown bodies, with reckless impunity for our lives, without any consequences. George Floyd was brutally murdered. Why did that happen? It happened because we have to affirm the fact Black Lives Matter because our lives have not mattered. They have not been valued. There was no humanity, no grace extended or afforded to him. Black folks have been dehumanized.
A leaked State Department memo revealed US embassies were encouraged to show support for Black Lives Matter today on the one-year anniversary of George Floyd’s death.
The seven-page document obtained by Human Events News gave authorization to ‘diplomatic and consular posts’ to fly the organization’s flag and use its name in messages and speeches.
A source within the Biden State Department wishing to remain anonymous has shared with Human Events News a document that indicates that all U.S. “Diplomatic and Consular posts” are being encouraged to display shows of support for Black Lives Matter on Tuesday, May 25, the one-year anniversary of George Floyd’s death. The memo reads in part, “The Department supports the use of the term ‘Black Lives Matter’ in messaging content, speeches, and other diplomatic engagements with foreign audiences to advance racial equity and access to justice on May 25 and beyond (italics added) We encourage posts to focus on the need to eliminate systemic racism and its continued impact.”
Now, you may find this hard to believe but after BLM started rioting all across the United States, their approval rating dropped. Imagine that. For some reason, obviously racism, is really responsible for the sudden drop in approval. But, it is also a sure bet that something happened to cause such a steep drop in popularity. But you lose conservatives and independents by rioting and all you have left are Democrats.
‘Wrong place, wrong time’: Friends hold vigil for ‘Black Panther of Oxford’ Sasha Johnson as it emerges she was caught in crossfire when drive-by gunmen targeted house party in gang dispute
Friends have held a vigil for a British Black Lives Matter leader who took a bullet in the head when a London gang carried out a botched drive-by shooting to assassinate a rival at the end of an all-day party.
Demonstrators gathered at the bandstand in Ruskin Park, Lambeth, to ‘pray’ for Sasha Johnson, 27 – the self-styled ‘Black Panther of Oxford’ who called for the police to be defunded after the murder of George Floyd and helped lead the ‘Rhodes Must Fall’ campaign to topple controversial statues.
The activist is fighting for her life in hospital following the attack in Peckham, which her political party claimed came after she received multiple death threats.
Last night her “activist” friends were attempting to gin this up as a political assassination.
Video has surfaced of a 2015 speech from Marxist owner of multiple properties and BLM co-founder Patrisse Cullors saying that it has been a lifelong goal of hers to “fight the police”.
The event was held in London’s King’s College in the wake of the Ferguson riots, as part of what was at the time called the “Ferguson solidarity tour”. It was hosted by a variety of student organizations, including the Intersectional Feminist Society, the Ethnic Minority Association and the African Caribbean Society.
