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philosslayer

(3,076 posts)
Fri Sep 30, 2016, 10:25 AM Sep 2016

Black Lives Matter protesters at U-M: 'Black lives are not up for debate' [View all]

ANN ARBOR, MI -- The Michigan Political Union's decision to debate that the Black Lives Matter movement is harmful to racial relations was halted by an eruption of protesters insisting their lives weren't up for debate.

Students -- many of whom were black -- voiced their displeasure with the MPU's decision to host the debate on Tuesday, Sept. 27, inside the Michigan League, in the wake of fliers that were found on the University of Michigan campus espousing a "racist point of view" on Monday.

The debate featured three participants with differing political stances and ideologies. About 10 minutes into it, hundreds of student voices could be heard from outside the building before they arrived at the doors of the Vandenberg room to unified chants that immediately altered the atmosphere of the room.

http://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/index.ssf/2016/09/black_lives_matter_protesters_1.html

Couldn't have put it better myself. Black lives are not up for debate. This sort of thing SHOULD be shut down.

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What the hell is the opposing view? The Polack MSgt Sep 2016 #1
THANK you! . . n/t annabanana Oct 2016 #8
Cowards the lot of them mythology Sep 2016 #2
Yep. romanic Sep 2016 #3
Exactly. Marr Sep 2016 #4
Really? The Polack MSgt Oct 2016 #5
Very well put philosslayer Oct 2016 #7
+10000 tritsofme Oct 2016 #9
So now we see that certain MicaelS Oct 2016 #6
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