After starting with a bang in 2013, the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement (part of an umbrella group called the Movement for Black Lives) is... noticeably AWOL.
Sure, they're still around, causing the occasional disruption, but they're not nearly as strong as we've seen in previous years. A Buzzfeed article posted last month contained interviews with several BLM advocates, who described the organization as rife with infighting, factions, and inaction.
BLM members were generally pessimistic about the group's future.
According to the Buzzfeed writer, "Black Lives Matter is still here. Its groups are still organizing. But Black Lives Matter is on the verge of losing the traction and momentum that sparked a national shift on criminal justice policy."
A strategic planning meeting organized shortly after the Trump inauguration apparently broke down after little progress was made in identifying how to respond to the Trump administration.
The Buzzfeed article describes the condition of the BLM movement: "After years of organizing, local activists were cash-strapped, trying to keep their people motivated, and struggling to coordinate with other groups nationally while staying relevant at home."
One reason for the movement's departure from relevance is that the planners focused on building policy to be implemented by government. No longer being relevant to the government and their goal of policy implementation no longer available to them, BLM seems lost.
might explain BLM hostility to antifa if antifa is scooping up all the under-the-table financing that BLM used to get
Yes, BLM organizers have had several run-ins with Antifa protestors joining BLM rallies. You probably saw that "white performative" protest video last week, LOL.
I hate the name, it's as if black lives don't matter to anyone other than black people. They matter to me just as every does every other human life on the planet! We currently have nothing true to fight for in the west so it's this bullshit identity politics narrative that's sweeping over and scooping up the easily led, those that can't think for themselves, those who need to be led. To be honest I'm just fucking sick of it!
"Black Lives Matter". Hmm..."green cars run", "white dogs bark" :)
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