"Black Lives Matter" Comes of Age

[Cow Poke]

At least, so says the Philadelphia Tribune!

Source: TPT

The Black Lives Matter movement was close to becoming another Occupy Wall Street.

The latter was a protest movement that started in September 2011 against the excesses of Wall Street. It too became a global cause du jour. It too operated under a loose organizational structure and with headless leadership.

With little direction, others with less well-meaning intentions were able to cower under the Occupy banner, tarnish its name and muddy its message.

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Interesting the swipe on the Occupy movement.... especially the part about the "headless leadership".

Later in the article, we find....

Source: TPT cont'd

Take the Civil Rights Movement, for example. It was not by accident that the movement deemed Rosa Parks its mother. She was not the the first person to refuse to relinquish her seat on a public bus to a white person. Parks was instead the picture-perfect poster woman for the cause when she acted in Montgomery, Ala., in 1955. She was a sweet-looking, lady, with silvery hair pulled back into a conservative bun and who worked as a seamstress.

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So, who's the Rosa Parks of BLM?

And, BLM, of course, is WAY different than Occupy, because.....?



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[Sparko]

[seer]

So, who's the Rosa Parks of BLM?

Them?

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[Cow Poke]

Them?

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Come on, Seer - those are just kids having fun and exercising their first amendment rights.

What actually disturbs me more than that is the destruction and vandalism they do to local businesses, many of which are owned or operated by or employ blacks.

[Cow Poke]

OK, somehow I missed this part in the cite....



I'd like to see some videos of these "young, passionate, talented speakers who eloquently articulated" stuff actually doing some eloquent articulation. Seriously.

[seer]

What actually disturbs me more than that is the destruction and vandalism they do to local businesses, many of which are owned or operated by or employ blacks.

Back in 68 when they burned out a couple of local cities, as a teenager, I couldn't figure out why they burned down their own neighbors. Heck - go burn down the white neighborhoods, that would make more sense.

[Sparko]

Them?

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[seer]

like never?

[Cow Poke]

So, who's the Rosa Parks of BLM?

And, BLM, of course, is WAY different than Occupy, exactly how.....?

[One Bad Pig]

Well, there was that group of idiots who fairly recently occupied a federal park building out West with a bunch of guns. I don't recall them destroying anything, however.

[Cow Poke]

Well, there was that group of idiots who fairly recently occupied a federal park building out West with a bunch of guns. I don't recall them destroying anything, however.

And, by all accounts, they left the grounds cleaner than they found them.

[Sparko]

So, who's the Rosa Parks of BLM?

And, BLM, of course, is WAY different than Occupy, exactly how.....?

The woman who told white folks to get in the back. duh!

[rogue06]

OK, somehow I missed this part in the cite....



I'd like to see some videos of these "young, passionate, talented speakers who eloquently articulated" stuff actually doing some eloquent articulation. Seriously.

For the sarcastically impaired the following is said in jest

Reminiscent of the oratory prowess of Martin Luther King