This is an excerpt from the Black Lives Matter website, especially highlighting areas of concern and potential controversy:
"We are guided by the fact that all Black lives matter, regardless of actual or perceived sexual identity, gender identity, gender expression, economic status, ability, disability, religious beliefs or disbeliefs, immigration status, or location.
We make space for transgender brothers and sisters to participate and lead.
We are self-reflexive and do the work required to dismantle cisgender privilege and uplift Black trans folk, especially Black trans women who continue to be disproportionately impacted by trans-antagonistic violence.
We build a space that affirms Black women and is free from sexism, misogyny, and environments in which men are centered.
We practice empathy. We engage comrades with the intent to learn about and connect with their contexts.
We make our spaces family-friendly and enable parents to fully participate with their children. We dismantle the patriarchal practice that requires mothers to work “double shifts” so that they can mother in private even as they participate in public justice work.
We disrupt the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure requirement by supporting each other as extended families and “villages” that collectively care for one another, especially our children, to the degree that mothers, parents, and children are comfortable.
We foster a queer‐affirming network. When we gather, we do so with the intention of freeing ourselves from the tight grip of heteronormative thinking, or rather, the belief that all in the world are heterosexual (unless s/he or they disclose otherwise).
We cultivate an intergenerational and communal network free from ageism. We believe that all people, regardless of age, show up with the capacity to lead and learn.
We embody and practice justice, liberation, and peace in our engagements with one another."
Source: https://blacklivesmatter.com/what-we-believe/
My personal take:
Black Lives Matter, as an organisation, is an ultra left, Marxist, racist, anarchic political philosophy which has appropriated an overused, yet important cliche ('Black Lives Matter') to advance a transformative political narrative in order to shift society away from normative tradition, religion, culture, ethics, morals into a society of regression, degeneration, self victimization, intolerance and racism (race centred). With almost no focus on intraracial violence (black on black crime), it is an organisation which draws heavily on the politicization and effective opportunism in the deaths of black men.
In light of their mission statement, should the Somali community support this organisation?
"We are guided by the fact that all Black lives matter, regardless of actual or perceived sexual identity, gender identity, gender expression, economic status, ability, disability, religious beliefs or disbeliefs, immigration status, or location.
We make space for transgender brothers and sisters to participate and lead.
We are self-reflexive and do the work required to dismantle cisgender privilege and uplift Black trans folk, especially Black trans women who continue to be disproportionately impacted by trans-antagonistic violence.
We build a space that affirms Black women and is free from sexism, misogyny, and environments in which men are centered.
We practice empathy. We engage comrades with the intent to learn about and connect with their contexts.
We make our spaces family-friendly and enable parents to fully participate with their children. We dismantle the patriarchal practice that requires mothers to work “double shifts” so that they can mother in private even as they participate in public justice work.
We disrupt the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure requirement by supporting each other as extended families and “villages” that collectively care for one another, especially our children, to the degree that mothers, parents, and children are comfortable.
We foster a queer‐affirming network. When we gather, we do so with the intention of freeing ourselves from the tight grip of heteronormative thinking, or rather, the belief that all in the world are heterosexual (unless s/he or they disclose otherwise).
We cultivate an intergenerational and communal network free from ageism. We believe that all people, regardless of age, show up with the capacity to lead and learn.
We embody and practice justice, liberation, and peace in our engagements with one another."
Source: https://blacklivesmatter.com/what-we-believe/
My personal take:
Black Lives Matter, as an organisation, is an ultra left, Marxist, racist, anarchic political philosophy which has appropriated an overused, yet important cliche ('Black Lives Matter') to advance a transformative political narrative in order to shift society away from normative tradition, religion, culture, ethics, morals into a society of regression, degeneration, self victimization, intolerance and racism (race centred). With almost no focus on intraracial violence (black on black crime), it is an organisation which draws heavily on the politicization and effective opportunism in the deaths of black men.
In light of their mission statement, should the Somali community support this organisation?