They don’t know.
Don’t forget Atlanta is where they advertised for a few hundred Section 8 apts and over 30,000 showed up screaming for a slot.
What does Black Lives Matter want? A little thing called justice
Part of the article:
Black Lives Matter is challenging candidates to articulate just what they would do to end the shooting deaths of unarmed black people by police. Sanders has responded, giving “racial justice” a prominent spot on the issues agenda on his campaign website.
“We must pursue policies that transform this country into a nation that affirms the value of its people of color,” the website declares. “That starts with addressing the four central types of violence waged against black and brown Americans: physical, political, legal and economic.” It goes on to list policy proposals meant to address each aspect. Whether they pass muster with activists remains to be seen, but clearly Sanders has gotten the message.
Will other candidates get it, especially Republicans?
Notably, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, a GOP candidate, didn’t mince words when asked about the Black Lives Matters movement in a Fox News interview. He acknowledged the disparity of experience with law enforcement between whites and blacks and bemoaned the mistrust between young black men and police. “We do need to face this,” he said, before pitching a solution for a related but essentially different problem: keeping young first-time offenders from being marked with a criminal record for life.
Other GOP candidates have subverted the conversation by missing the point. Asked about Black Lives Matter, Ben Carson launched into a diatribe about black-on-black murder rates and broken homes in the African-American community. Another dodge, articulated by Carly Fiorina, is to blame liberals. “Black lives have been diminished under Democratic policies,” she told Fox News.
The baseline Republican response to the issue is perhaps best seen in the response when Black Lives Matter showed up at a Jeb Bush rally in North Las Vegas, Nev. As activists chanted their signature slogan, they were met by Bush supporters shouting back, “White lives matter.”
In other words, your concerns mean nothing. All those statistics that show unarmed blacks are disproportionately more often killed by police than unarmed whites; all the videos we’ve seen of heedless, unjustified shootings; the evidence that the police department of Ferguson actively oppressed the black population and was tasked with raising revenue for the city government by issuing citations: So what?
Here’s the point: Historically in America, black lives have mattered less. Taking their lives, not to mention their property and their labor, was a white prerogative in the time of slavery and Jim Crow. That is no longer the case, we want to believe, but there seems to be a troubling exception for the police.
Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/mary-sanchez/article31119122.html#storylink=cpy
Does anyone know exactly what they are demanding? — ilovesarah2012
They don’t know. —Eric in the Ozarks