Bill de Blasio: Black Lives Matter changed discussion ‘for the better’
GIULIANI: I believe that Black Lives Matter is a racist organization that is helping to fuel this. now, if I had an organization called White Lives Matter, you would say it was a racist organization.
Five police officers were shot in Dallas last Friday by a former veteran Micah Johnson who said he wanted to “kill white people” and has soared racial tensions in America.
Reynaldo Anderson, an associate professor of communications at Harris-Stowe State University, told St. Louis Today that comparing Black Lives Matter to a terrorist group is “not only unwarranted”.
Woods compared the discussion to the slogan ‘save the rain forest.’ He said people aren’t implying that one should chop down the rest of the trees.
The Black Lives Matter demonstrations did not halt after the Dallas shootings.
However, the post which is attributed to Stallen and has a picture of a man in police uniform that was posted before the Dallas shooting, was critical of the focus of the movement.
“To save lives, that’s all what we are calling for”. We do not condone bloodshed. He said the White House should reexamine how extensively cops are trained – especially on de-escalating conflict – and additional equipment they can receive from the military.
“We can’t affect national narrative, we can’t affect national legislation that comes down and affects local people if local people don’t push back and take a stand about what’s happening in local communities”, Fuller said. Just as the Black Lives Matter movement does not speak for the entire black community as Biden pointed out, Giuliani should probably not speak for the entire Black Lives Matter movement either.
Comedian Trevor Noah, host of Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show” and a biracial native of South Africa, said people “shouldn’t have to choose between the police and the citizens that they are sworn to protect”. He says “the real danger to them 99 out of 100 times… are other black kids who are going to kill them. And what we have got to hear from them is how and what they’re doing amongst themselves about the crime problems in the black community” he stated.
“Black rage is founded on wounds in the soul”, he said. “This is where we’re stuck….” “I want to be treated like a human being”.
Whack reported from Philadelphia. Contact him at jholland@ap.org, on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/jessejholland and on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/jessejholland.