Political Awareness Matters: How Black Lives Matter Are Screwing Themselves -- And the Rest of Us

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60. They're doing a pretty piss poor job of trying to make the case that we are "fake"...

What really is "fake" is any kind of effort they are making to try and work with others that are trying to work with them to further their cause. Don't want to label all BLM people like that, but this is just more than a few of the apples in the cart. If it were some random acts of irresponsibility, I would like to think someone would have apologized for these actions and made better gestures afterward, instead of trying to disown someone that did try to take that step to put a better face on the movement. That just slaps away people that want to do good things for the movement. Both those that aren't POC, and also I suspect many POC that might otherwise want to unite with the movement but rightly don't like the approach that so many are taking now, are both being pushed away now.