Here is a colluquy between patrisse cullors, who is billed as a co-founder of the “#blacklivesmatter” group, and Janet Mock, which occurred during the Melissa Harris-Perry show on (where else?) MSNBC:
JANET MOCK: What action do you want to see the candidates take for what the movement is calling for?
PATRISSE CULLORS: I think first off we want candidates to actually call movement leaders sit and have meetings with us, have a conversation with us about what\’s happened this last year since the murder of Mike Brown.
MOCK: What is your plan for the Republican candidates specifically after Jeb Bush and his idea of saying that #black lives matter is just a slogan?
CULLORS: Yes. And we — many folks have asked why would you go after the Democratic party? They\’re on our side. What about the Republican party? And trust and believe that any opportunity we have to shut down a Republican convention, we will. We will make sure that our voices are made loud and clear. And we also want to be clear that the Democratic party isn\’t off the hook.
Fascinating.
Let\’s start with the lie that Michael Brown was murdered. Michael Brown was not murdered, he was shot and killed defensively by Police Officer Darren Wilson. That is not me talking, that is a grand jury which refused to indict Officer Wilson, an autopsy report which made it clear that Officer Wilson\’s version of what happened was correct (“hands up – don\’t shoot” was a concocted fraud), and an investigation by the eric holder-led Department of Justice which found no evidence of wrongdoing.
Let me repeat: the claim that Michael Brown was murdered is a lie. Period, end of story.
Next, we have the lie that #blacklivesmatter gives a damn about Black lives. Other than the Black lives it can make political hay out of, what Black lives has it ever even bothered to speak of? On average, over 17 Black people are murdered in the United States every day – virtually all of them by other Black people. What have the #blacklivesmatter frauds ever said about those Black lives, besides nothing?
And, for extra measure, we have the threat that “any opportunity we have to shut down a Republican convention, we will”. In other words, we don\’t like the Republican Party, so we will do what we can to disallow anyone else from hearing what it has to say.
Apparently free speech “matters” to this bunch about as much as the truth does.
Now, grow old waiting for President Obama – who certainly had plenty to say about Michael Brown\’s death before he knew the facts uncovered by his own Justice Department – to say even one word against #blacklivesmatter, as it continues to lie about Brown, and other politically usable deaths, while ignoring the deaths of virtually all other Black people, and the reasons for their deaths.
