Black Lives Matter

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                                       Black Lives Matter

Black Lives Matter is more than a slogan, it is an organization with officers, mission statements, and budgets. It looks like a charity, so is a donation deductible? There have been a lot of superficial summaries about it, and much of this is culled (and modified) from one in The Post.

Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors said in a video from 2015 that she and her fellow organizers are “trained Marxists” – making clear their movement’s ideological foundation.

Cullors, 36, was the protégé of Eric Mann, former agitator of the Weather Underground domestic terror organization, and spent years absorbing the Marxist-Leninist ideology that shaped her worldview, Breitbart News reported. The Weather Underground was a ruthless organization of murder and mayhem that, like so many others, masqueraded as idealists.

“The first thing, I think, is that we actually do have an ideological frame. Myself and Alicia in particular are trained organizers,” (but not, apparently, trained much in grammar) she said, referring to BLM co-founder Alicia Garza.

“We are trained Marxists. We are super-versed on, sort of, ideological theories. And I think that what we really tried to do is build a movement that could be utilized by many, many black folk,” Cullors added in the interview with Jared Ball of The Real News Network.

Being "super-versed on, sort of, ideological theories" is, like, really super encouraging.

While promoting her book “When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir” in 2018, Cullors described her introduction to and support for Marxist ideology.

She described to Democracy Now! how she became a trained organizer with the Labor/Community Strategy Center, which she called her “first political home” under the mentorship of Mann, its director, Breitbart reported.

The center, which describes its philosophy as “an urban experiment,” uses grassroots organization to “focus on Black and Latino communities with deep historical ties to the long history of anti-colonial, anti-imperialist, pro-communist resistance to the US empire,” according to the outlet. 

An exhaustive search for victims of oppression in North America, presumably because they did not want to leave the comforts of the country.

It also expresses its appreciation for the work of the US Communist Party, “especially Black communists,” as well as its support for “the great work of the Black Panther Party, the American Indian Movement, Young Lords, Brown Berets, and the great revolutionary rainbow experiments of the 1970s,” Breitbart reported.