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AP Interview: Black Lives Matter skipping 2016 endorsement
AP ^ | Sep. 19, 2015 | JESSE J. HOLLAND

Posted on 09/19/2015 7:10:18 AM PDT by PROCON

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Black Lives Matter network will skip a presidential endorsement but keep up its political activism by confronting candidates about the treatment of African-Americans in the United States, one of the group's founders says.

In an Associated Press interview, Alicia Garza discussed the organization's refusal to settle on a preferred candidate in the 2016 race to succeed President Barack Obama and pledged to press ahead with protests and interruptions during the campaign.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: 2016election; blackliesmatter; blackracism; blm
The Black Lives Matter movement traces its roots to the fatal shooting of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in Florida in 2012, and gained national ground after 18-year-old Michael Brown was shot and killed by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, last summer.

Founded on lies.

Does any candidate want the endorsement of this openly racist group?

Popcorn time.

1 posted on 09/19/2015 7:10:18 AM PDT by PROCON
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To: PROCON

They just signed their termination papers. The dems will now ease in to condemning them in the hopes no one noticed the dems created them.

But id they won’t play ball, they will be sent to the cornfield.


2 posted on 09/19/2015 7:13:24 AM PDT by Norm Lenhart ("The road is long...and I must poop." - Volarian Lionheart/Hero of the people)
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To: PROCON

Why aren’t they automatically endorsing Dr. Carson?


3 posted on 09/19/2015 7:13:42 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /Sarc tag necessary?)
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Why aren’t they automatically endorsing Dr. Carson?

Because, IIRC, he decried their "bullying". (As he well should have.)

4 posted on 09/19/2015 7:16:51 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: PROCON

why why...This MEANS that the rught revrunt al sharpton will get no face time stumping for ANYONE..and thats just plain racess


5 posted on 09/19/2015 8:02:18 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: PROCON

Not even Dumbs wand their endorsement.

It would be the kiss of death.


6 posted on 09/19/2015 8:06:40 AM PDT by Calpublican (Boehner,McConnell,Corker,McCain,Alexander,Hatch,Graham+More=Corrupt)
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To: PROCON

They already have a party.

The New Black Panther Party and that is who they endorse.


7 posted on 09/19/2015 11:41:45 AM PDT by Molon Labbie (Prep. Now. Live Healthy, take your Shooting Iron daily.)
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