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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Louis Farrakhan will speak on July 4th at a 2020 edition of the Million Man March.

Look for who attends that. If I see BLM leaders there, I cannot believe that they do not support anti-Semitism.

They need to 100%, unequivocally, disavow him. [/quote]
Name a BLM leader.[/quote]

https://blacklivesmatter.com/our-co-founders/[/quote]

First of all BLM is a decentralized movement. The actual BLM organization/founders have no control over what local chapters do. So in effect, it does not have leadership. Just a large number of local leaders. None of this matters though, b/c honestly many of you guys will be outraged regardless of what they do or say.

Thankfully,  There are more than enough Jewish brothers and sisters who understand the nuance behind why blacks, who in many cases do not support or like  LF, would attend a conference/march he speaks at and largely agree with what he says relative to black empowerment. At this point, activists are pretty much done being on the defensive re: fake outrage re:LF,  antisemitism and “reverse racism”. The time for policing black anger is long over, even though I know many will try.

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Absolutely, the time for policing AA anger is absolutely over. However, by the same intersectional token, you should not center yourself in the Jewish anger re: antisemitism, including in the BLM movement (and indeed in the BLM charter). Or attempt to police anger in the women's movement against misogyny within, e.g., the BLM movement. Calling it "fake outrage" is for sure your choice, but there are more hate crimes in this country against Jews than any other group (just like the state, through the police, is murdering more African-American men than any other group). I completely understand why AA are looking for a broader coalition within the AA community - and in effect saying, the Black Lives Matter movement was not created for or by white people (or Hispanic people, or Asian people, or LGBTQ people, etc), and we are not going to concern ourselves with racism or antisemitism, or feminism, or any other isms because our objective is to get the state to stop murdering AA people. BLM does not care if alienates non-AA people - they don't want their time, or their money, or their corporate sponsorship, etc. It is not a movement that seeks consensus or really cares too much what non-African American people think or feel.

If people are offended - and it's not fake offended, it's actually offended - they will hopefully find other ways to support getting the state to stop killing people -or BLM will flame-out like Occupy Wall Street b/c they are too "decentralized" and didn't try to build a broader consensus.  [/quote]

Black folks support issues/groups all the time, like the Democratic Party, while constantly being deeply offended by said parties/groups. Building a broader consensus with nonblacks requires folks who can deal with complexity and nuance, and who can stop making the issue about themselves. That last part is the hardest for most folks.

BLM May flame out, but the energy wont. No putting this genie back in the bottle.[/quote]

True - but obviously you wouldn’t dream of making it about yourself and policing how people should think or feel about the BLM platform - that would be you improperly making it about yourself. You can’t center yourself in the history of oppression of other groups, right? That would mean you were deficient in the complexity and nuance department. [/quote]

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