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| 'I Learned the Ugly Truth': Minnesota BLM Founder Calls it Quits | |
| 2021-06-02 | |
| [Townhall] In a video posted to YouTube on Sunday, the founding member of a Black Lives Matter organization in Minnesota announced he was quitting the group after realizing the true aims of BLM's leaders did not line up with the needs of his hometown's black community. "I believed the organization stood for exactly what the name implies—black lives do matter," explained Rashad Turner in the video announcing his decision to step away from BLM after helping create the chapter in St. Paul, Minnesota. "However, some men learn by reading. A few learn by observation. The rest have to pee on the electric fence for themselves... after a year on the inside, I learned they had little concern for rebuilding Black families. And they cared even less about improving the quality of education for students in Minneapolis. That was made clear when they publicly denounced charter schools alongside the teacher's union." "I was an insider in Black Lives Matter and I learned the ugly truth. The moratorium on charter schools does not support rebuilding the black family, but it does create barriers to a better education for black children. I resigned from Black Lives Matter after a year and a half, but I didn't quit working to improve black lives and access to a great education" says the now-president and executive director of Minnesota Parent Union, an organization created to help parents send their children to better schools. Turner also explains why he decided to set up a Black Lives Matter chapter in St. Paul, based on what he describes as a desire to create pathways to success for young people in his community: "When I was two years old, my father was shot and killed. My mother wasn't able to take care of me, so I was raised by my grandparents. They told me that if I was going to change my life for the better, education was the answer. So I worked hard in school, I got into Hamline University, and earned a college degree—the first in my family. Then I went on to earn a master's in education from St. Mary's University of Minnesota. I am living proof that no matter your start in life, quality education is a pathway to success. I want the same success for our children in our communities. That's why, in 2015, I was a founder of Black Lives Matter in St. Paul." The Black Lives Matter organization admitted its anti-family aims before quietly deleting language on its website that declared its desire to "disrupt" the western nuclear family because of the harm caused by "patriarchal" fathers, so it's not a surprise BLM activists are realizing the police-defunding, family-opposing mission of the larger organization is antithetical to safe and strong communities.
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| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #6 #4 'My hustle don't rhyme with your hustle no more.' |
| Posted by: Dron66046 2021-06-02 13:29 |
| #5 The Democrat Party leaders in one of the more honest moments of journalism of years past. https://www.intellectualtakeout.org/blog/did-lbj-say-ill-have-those-nggers-voting-democratic-200-years/ |
| Posted by: NoMoreBS 2021-06-02 10:55 |
| #4 'I Learned the Ugly Truth' they wouldn't split the take with me? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2021-06-02 09:06 |
| #3 Check the stats for out of wedlock births 1960 to today. You can thank LBJ's 'Great Society' for that, P2K. We started paying folks to have kids and made the primary father figure for a family unnecessary. |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2021-06-02 08:59 |
| #2 The Black Lives Matter organization admitted its anti-family aims before quietly deleting language on its website that declared its desire to "disrupt" the western nuclear family because of the harm caused by "patriarchal" fathers They already achieved that in their community. Check the stats for out of wedlock births 1960 to today. Then check the crime stats for the same periods. Seems a lot of harm is being done by the government funded urban 'matriarchy'. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2021-06-02 07:22 |
| #1 2015 to 2021 We've talked about the progression from Movement to Business to Racket before. Seems like they've done it in record time here. If you have not come across Eric Hoffer's The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements, it is worth checking out. A short book, less than a couple hundred pages. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2021-06-02 01:29 |