If you are willing to hear the BLM grievances

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

6. PotatoChip posted excerpts from their 'State of the Black Union' page in another thread.

http://blacklivesmatter.com/state-of-the-black-union/

I believe this is the section he excerpted:

The current state of Black America is anything but just. For Black people in the U.S., the shadow of crisis has not passed.

The median wealth for single White women is $42,600. For Black women, it’s $5.001.

The infant mortality rate for Black mothers is more than double that of White mothers, due to factors like poverty, lack of access to health care, and the physiological effects of stress caused by living under structural oppression 2.

22 states have passed new voter restrictions since 2010, disenfranchising as many as 34 million Americans, most of them Black 3.

In cities across the country, profit-driven policies fuel displacement and gentrification, leading to the destruction of entire Black communities 4.

Blacks and Latinos are about 31 percent of the US population, but 60 percent of the prison population 8.

In our country 1 in 3 black men will be incarcerated in his lifetime 5, and Black women are the fastest growing prison population 6.

The life expectancy of a Black trans woman is 35 years. The average income of a Black trans person is less than 10K. Trans people are denied jobs, housing and healthcare just for living in their truths.

It is legal in many jurisdictions to fire LBGT people from employment and deny them access to healthcare and housing.

Since 1976, the United States has executed thirteen times more black defendants with white victims than white defendants with black victims 6.

Black U.S. political prisoners have collectively served over 800 years in prison and have consistently been denied parole despite good behavior and time served.

Increasingly, students in white areas are nourished and taught while Black children are criminalized and judged.

Black neighborhoods lack access to affordable healthy food resulting in disproportionate levels of obesity and other chronic illnesses.

Our schools are designed to funnel our children into prisons. Our police departments have declared war against our community. Black people are exploited, caged, and killed to profit both the state and big business. This is a true State of Emergency. There is no place for apathy in this crisis. The US government has consistently violated the inalienable rights our humanity affords.

We say no more.

We demand an end to all forms of discrimination and the full recognition of our human rights.
We demand an immediate end to police brutality and the murder of Black people and all oppressed people.
We demand full, living wage employment for our people.
We demand decent housing fit for the shelter of human beings and an end to gentrification.
We demand an end to the school to prison pipeline & quality education for all.
We demand freedom from mass incarceration and an end to the prison industrial complex.
We demand a racial justice agenda from the White House that is inclusive of our shared fate as Black men, women, trans and gender-nonconforming people. Not My Brother’s Keeper, but Our Children’s Keeper.
We demand access to affordable healthy food for our neighborhoods.
We demand an aggressive attack against all laws, policies, and entities that disenfranchise any community from expressing themselves at the ballot.
We demand a public education system that teaches the rich history of Black people and celebrates the contributions we have made to this country and the world.
We demand the release of all U.S. political prisoners.
We demand an end to the military industrial complex that incentivizes private corporations to profit off of the death and destruction of Black and Brown communities across the globe.

but there is, of course, more on the page than just the lists. (And I didn't copy over the footnotes to which the numbers at the ends of some points refer.)