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Is Black Lives Matter A 'Hate Group'?
Monday morning was no different. During segment on the Black Lives Matter movement, she insisted that the loose group of civil rights demonstrators be labeled a hate group. Reminiscent of the way in which human rights leaders — including the Freedom Riders — have been historically marginalized, Hasselbeck employed similar language.
“Why has the Black Lives Matter movement not been classified yet as a hate group?” Hasselbeck asked her guest. “How much more has to go in this direction before someone actually labels it as such?”
Unfortunately, she is not alone.
In recent weeks, a plethora of cable news pundits and even local law enforcement officials have begun blaming the organization for callous murders — including the ambush shooting deaths of two journalists in Virginia and the assassination of a police officer in Texas. Meanwhile, little — if any — attention has been paid to the proliferation of guns or the lack of meaningful mental health access. As with most crimes involving a black suspect, in these instances, individual behavior has been extrapolated into a broader judgment about an entire race of people. Blaming Black Lives Matter is an all too convenient way to skirt the serious issues that dog us.
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Then too, a privileged class needed a vehicle through which to re-affirm that they are not culpable, that our justice system works just fine, that the American Dream is open and available to all of us. They needed someone to reassured them that police officers are not spilling innocent blood in our names. They needed someone to convince us that Trayvon Martin and Eric Garner deserved to die, even as our hearts and minds clearly told us otherwise. They needed someone to collectively assuage us of any guilt we may have in creating the societal maladies that plague us. They needed someone to remind us that we are exceptional, even as our reflective image says something else.
Read more: http://bluenationreview.com/is-black-lives-matter-a-hate-group/#ixzz3kRXRoPzx
“Why has the Black Lives Matter movement not been classified yet as a hate group?” Hasselbeck asked her guest. “How much more has to go in this direction before someone actually labels it as such?”
Unfortunately, she is not alone.
In recent weeks, a plethora of cable news pundits and even local law enforcement officials have begun blaming the organization for callous murders — including the ambush shooting deaths of two journalists in Virginia and the assassination of a police officer in Texas. Meanwhile, little — if any — attention has been paid to the proliferation of guns or the lack of meaningful mental health access. As with most crimes involving a black suspect, in these instances, individual behavior has been extrapolated into a broader judgment about an entire race of people. Blaming Black Lives Matter is an all too convenient way to skirt the serious issues that dog us.
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Then too, a privileged class needed a vehicle through which to re-affirm that they are not culpable, that our justice system works just fine, that the American Dream is open and available to all of us. They needed someone to reassured them that police officers are not spilling innocent blood in our names. They needed someone to convince us that Trayvon Martin and Eric Garner deserved to die, even as our hearts and minds clearly told us otherwise. They needed someone to collectively assuage us of any guilt we may have in creating the societal maladies that plague us. They needed someone to remind us that we are exceptional, even as our reflective image says something else.
Read more: http://bluenationreview.com/is-black-lives-matter-a-hate-group/#ixzz3kRXRoPzx
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#BlackLivesMatter is about LOVE and not wanting Fellow Black Americans murdered by Police.
#BlackLivesMatter
#BlackLivesMatter
I can't believe they are trying to pin random shootings by mentally ill people on BLM.
murder unarmed Black kids with impunity.
#BlackLivesMatter
"Dr. King was repeatedly pressed to condemn the black rioter and shoulder the responsibility for “black-on-black” crime even by those who professed to love him. They questioned his timing, his tactics, his policy focus and even the tenor of his voice when they didn’t want to talk about voting rights, discuss poverty or answer mounting questions about a war."
BLM co-founder Patrisse Cullors is no Dr. King. But those who malign the organization, by setting it in the same category as the Ku Klux Klan and Council of Concerned Citizens, reveal something unspeakably ugly about themselves."
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Mahalo for alerting us to what's happening from RW Propaganda Central just like back in Dr King's Day.
#BlackLivesMatter
And, that goes for those on any part of the spectrum who try to malign #BlackLivesMatter.
BLM co-founder Patrisse Cullors is no Dr. King. But those who malign the organization, by setting it in the same category as the Ku Klux Klan and Council of Concerned Citizens, reveal something unspeakably ugly about themselves."
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Mahalo for alerting us to what's happening from RW Propaganda Central just like back in Dr King's Day.
#BlackLivesMatter
And, that goes for those on any part of the spectrum who try to malign #BlackLivesMatter.
So, if that means they are a hate group, so be it. 
in case you cannot tell
Support BLM!!!!
Welcome to the AA group, WIProgressive88. 
Response to WIProgressive88 (Reply #24)
