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"BLM Philly posted a notice about the [April 15] meeting on its Facebook page with information about the meeting's location and timing, as well as a notice that "BLM Philly is a Black only space." This prompted one Twitter user to ask the group if its meetings were black only or if all of its activities were as well. "Our meetings are black centered," the group's Twitter account replied. In response to another user who asked, "you mean only black people can come to the meeting?" BLM Philly answered simply: "Yes.""

At least they admit they're the ones who are racist.

Well they have a point.

The only white people who attend these meetings are faux liberal racist whites, people who self-segregate into 95% white wealthy and exclusive communities, patronize what are defacto white-only establishments (so called hip and progressive restaurants, bars, supermarkets, etc). They talk all this stuff about equality but consistently put their own children into the most segregated white only public schools. They hire the best accountants to avoid they very taxes they say are so important to society.

No, you do not get to be "down" by attending a Blacklives Matter meeting and forcing people to provide you free range gluten free quinoa. Sorry.

Seems like a bad choice. Do some black people seriously need to have zero white people around to feel safe? If so, why? I'm not about to go to a BLM meeting, but do have some sympathy to their cause. OTOH, the group is politically inept and probably counterproductive.

BLM is not a pro black group. They care little about black lives per se.

It's an anti-cop group.

They say little about the black-on-black genocide that is occurring in inner cities like Baltimore and Chicago.

But they do care when a cop shoots a black person, even if it was a justified shooting and EVEN IF THE COP IS BLACK.

And in their protests, they are willing to injure or kill other black people to make their point.

It is an anti-police hate group. That's all it is.

Do they hold seminars on how to get your whelps shot by police to collect big lawsuit bucks from municipalities?

Maybe they should have duck blinds with plastic youth perps on wires waving zip guns, and when the police roll by firing, they can shove their real kids in the line of fire.

"Just Call Al", Sharpton, that is!

Naive people like Dan think that these people are nice people... if these fools had their way we'd all be oppressed.

FortWayne says

Naive people like Dan think that these people are nice people... if these fools had their way we'd all be oppressed.

Don't speak for me, fool. Black Lives Matter started as a movement whose sole purpose was to get the state to stop cops from killing innocent black men as if black lives didn't matter. But the movement had no leaders and was co-opted by angry vigilantes and leftists.

If you think the original purpose of Black Lives Matter, stopping the slaughter of innocent black men, is bad then you are a racist. I don't agree with what the movement devolved into when it was taken over by the conservative left.

YesYNot says

but do have some sympathy to their cause.

Dan8267 says

conservative left

There is no such thing as "conservative left" Dan. Maybe your standards are very low being a flower child.

FortWayne says

There is no such thing as "conservative left" Dan. Maybe your standards are very low being a flower child.

Name one time I said something nice about hippies? Oh, you can't.

And yes, just because you say something doesn't exist doesn't make it so. Example: Obama's birth certificate.

And just because you say something does exist doesn't make it so. Example: Trump's plan to replace Obamacare.

Dan8267 says

And like feminism, it became vile when taken over by the conservative left. No one criticizes Susan B. Anthony.

It was IMMEDIATELY adopted as a pet cause and media darling by the conservative left! Trayvon Martin was the beginning, and Obama had that negro's back! If you can't agree that Obama represents the conservative Left then you're being intellectually dishonest.

Dan8267 says

Name one time I said something nice about hippies?

Your comments regarding hippie's position on global warming was fairly pejorative, so I'd say there's not much love there. OTOH, I put Jill Stein somewhere on the hippie spectrum. Did you vote for her?

Quigley says

Obama represents the conservative

Obama was a centrist on most issues of importance.

Why are you bringing up Trayvon Martin? Do you really think George Zimmerman was innocent? He's borderline nuts and definitely violent. That's a guy who should not have gotten off.

Because the BLM is considered to have begun with that case, tho it really got a start with the Ferguson riots which were promoted by the media. No MSM coverage was in any way perjorative towards the nascent BLM movement and actually promoted it with numerous stories that downplayed black violent criminals as nice guys who loved their mommy.
This was a Leftist movement from the beginning!

And the purpose was to divide us along racial lines!

YesYNot says

He's borderline nuts and definitely violent. That's a guy who should not have gotten off.

I don't disagree that he's nuts and probably dangerous, and in a perfectly moral world should have served time for the killing. However, two things ensured that this would never happen.
1)the DA swung for the fence with a premeditated murder charge in a case that was at best 2nd degree, and realistically a man slaughter charge that fit the known facts. It was easy for the defense to disprove the charge.
2)Florida had that stand your ground law with a very wide open interpretation of what force was permissible in what situations. Zimmerman fit neatly into those bounds.

I called the Not Guilty verdict on the board at least a week early.
It does get tiring to be so often right...

YesYNot says

Do you really think George Zimmerman was innocent?

Absolutely. Without stand your ground law it may have been involuntary manslaughter at best if at all. This was one of the easiest cases. Now try the OJ case..

BTW: I love that phrase, conservative left : )

YesYNot says

I put Jill Stein somewhere on the hippie spectrum.

Environmentalist does not mean hippie. Jill Stein showers.

In any case, between Hilary, Trump, and Stein, the latter is clearly the best choice and a good protest vote even though third party have no chance of winning under current election law. I'd rather have Sanders. I'd really rather have Elizabeth Warren as president and William Black as V.P. and neither of them are hippies. Yeah, one is a Native American, but that's still materially different.

YesYNot says

Obama was a centrist on most issues of importance.

The center is now highly conservative. It needs to be brought back to something sane. And being a centralist isn't the most defensible position. If Adolph says you should burn all the Jews in ovens and Gandhi says you shouldn't burn any of them, the centralist position is to cook half the Jews. Is that really the most defensible ground?

You're right Dan, cooling just half the Jews is the most sane course.
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zzyzzx says

white leftists in Philadelphia who want to support the Black Lives Matter movemen

One thing they never refuse, is donations from Whites. Happy to take that.

Also, Race is a Cultural Construct, and you can choose your race. Simply choose not to be Black, like Dolezal chose to be Black.

Actually it is basically true that Race is a Cultural Construct. It has no meaning in Biology or Genetics, it is from the highly suspect field of Sociology and Anthropology. Both the softest of sciences.