Teacher punished for using the T word

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(10-25-2017, 01:21 PM)bfine32 Wrote: The first sentence from their website:

https://blacklivesmatter.com/about/

The Black Lives Matter Global Network is a chapter-based, member-led organization whose mission is to build local power and to intervene in violence inflicted on Black communities by the state and vigilantes.


So your answer is No, BLM is not a racist organization?

(10-25-2017, 01:31 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: That particular organization that claims to speak for the movement? No idea, don't know anything about them. I'm just going by what the federal courts and leaders of the movement have said in regards to BLM. There is no one, centralized, BLM organization.

(10-25-2017, 01:38 PM)bfine32 Wrote: You are saying you don't know anything about the organization that is the official website of BLM? 

(10-25-2017, 01:47 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: Correct. I did not know that website existed until you posted that link. None of the big names I know of being associated with the movement are listed on that website, so I can't speak to how "official" it is to the movement, but given the federal courts recently said there is no central organization to the movement I am guessing there claim to that title is viewed without much validity.

Ever since the movement began, my understanding has been that there is no "official" organization, and this is an understanding coming from people at the forefront of the movement. So I am wary of any claims of an "official" organization.

It's similar to U.S. political parties centered around socialism or communism. There's — last I checked — at least a dozen with multi-state members. Revolutionary Communist Party, CPUSA, Socialist Alternative, NABP, Workers World Party. BLM is a mix of ideology much like any other political group in that some adhere to one part of a message or policy, some to another. And there's plenty of people using it to tag on their own agenda.