Posted on 02/05/2016 2:35:51 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Candidacy criticized by BLM chapter co-founder, who says movement should stand apart from political establishment.
Black Lives Matter activist DeRay McKesson has announced that he will run for mayor of Baltimore, his hometown, a decision that has angered critics who accuse him of being too cozy with the political establishment.
One of those critics is Marissa Jenae Johnson, co-founder of the Seattle chapter of Black Lives Matter (BLM), a civil rights movement that came to prominence during protests in the aftermath of the police killing of black teenager Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, in the summer of 2014.
"McKesson's entry into political office does not signal the success of BLM, but the deep desire and motivation of the state to suppress it," Johnson told Al Jazeera.
"McKesson is surely only the first of many within BLM who will go on to seek government positions. It is not his candidacy that is detrimental to the movement, but the extent to which people believe it to be an act of progress, rather than an act of co-optation and repression, that is of issue," Johnson said....
(Excerpt) Read more at america.aljazeera.com ...
Good! They deserve him.
I’m sure he’ll do just fine.
I know this is al Jazeera, but it could just as easily be ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, NYT, PW, etc. It highlights what's really wrong with this country: we have a free press; we do not have a fair press and this sentence highlights it in multiple places:
came to prominence during protests...
They weren't protests; they were full-scale riots, pure and simple.
police killing of black teenager Michael Brown...
While technically true, it implies that the killing was the fault of the police. That's not true, as the grand jury decided based on the facts of the events. Michael Brown, and Treyvon Martin before him, died because he started a fight when he attacked a man with a gun. He lost.
Top of the MF world,ma!
Landslide.
So on the domino effect is the current Baltimore mayor Stephanie Blake is running for Maryland governor?
Wow, the state is becoming a cesspool to avoid at all costs.
I thought they already had a BLM mayor.
Sheeeeeeee*********t!
Maryland “Freak State” PING!
He has gone thru a good training program to reach his goal he’s gained experience and criminal know how to perform the duties of a failed city
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