Black Lives Matter Distance Themselves from Show of Support From the DNC

[eridani]

http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/318-66/32137-black-lives-matter-rejects-show-of-support-from-the-dnc

Supporters of the Black Lives Matter movement are distancing themselves from a Democratic National Committee resolution voicing support for their cause.

The Black Lives Matter Network said the resolution the DNC adopted at its summer meeting last week "in no way implies an endorsement of the DNC" by the group.

"The Democratic Party, like the Republican and all political parties, have historically attempted to control or contain Black people’s efforts to liberate ourselves," the group said in a statement Sunday.

"True change requires real struggle, and that struggle will be in the streets and led by the people, not by a political party," it added, suggesting later the DNC was a "self-interested ... political machine."

Democrats passed the resolution on Friday "affirming 'Black lives matter' and the 'say her name' efforts to make visible the pain of our fellow and sister Americans as they condemn extrajudicial killings of unarmed African American men, women and children," according to MSNBC.

[tularetom]

1. I agree that political parties are irrelevant and useless to their cause

So why do they make such a big production out of disrupting political events?

I have no use for the DNC, but BLM isn't going to make many converts unless they can be more specific about their goals and less confrontational.

[eridani]

2. Not every movement needs to be an organization. You could say the same thing about Occupy n/t

[brush]

3. True. But where is Occupy now?

Hate to see the same thing happen to BLM.

Structure is not always bad.

[eridani]

5. Fighting foreclosure and student debt

They've joined pre-existing issue organizations or set up small and fluid working groups. Some have run for local office--the most successful so far being Kshama Sawant in Seattle. They changed the conversation--1% vs 99% is a permanent cultural meme.

BLM is doing the same thing. There is already Campaign Zero, a more organized effort with a formal list of demands.

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

4. Don't blame them. Lip service doesn't go very far these days.

They need actual action.

[taught_me_patience]

6. Black lives matter gonna go the way of occupy

They will be seen, more and more, as the fringe toolbags they are.

[eridani]

7. Occupy has changed the national conversation, and so has BLM

Adherents also belong to more formally organized groups.

[MisterP]

8. they're trying to be "veal penned"--instrumentalized into yet another flack-run lever-pulling branch

http://www.commondreams.org/views/2009/10/12/gay-issues-fringe-left-and-liberal-veal-pen
http://shadowproof.com/2009/08/07/rahm-goes-apeshit-on-liberals-in-the-veal-pen/
http://shadowproof.com/2009/09/06/van-jones-a-moment-of-truth-for-liberal-institutions-in-the-veal-pen/

[nadinbrzezinski]

9. Ah...not surprised.

Those who know history will get it. Those who don't, won't.