BLM demonstraties in de VS #36

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Op zondag 5 juli 2020 22:17 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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Dat was 20 uur geleden en het wordt nog steeds gezellig?

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Op maandag 6 juli 2020 00:03 schreef Red_85 het volgende:
https://mobile.twitter.com/JulietteRot/status/1279743384656240641

White People Are 'Genetic Defects' Says BLM Leader Who Mulled How Whites Could Be 'Wiped Out'. Nooit meer zeggen dat het BLM om gelijke rechten gaat

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nytimes twitterde op woensdag 10-06-2020 om 18:20:03 American voters' support for the Black Lives Matter movement has increased in the last 2 weeks almost as much as it had in 2 years, according to new data from an online survey research firm https://t.co/rT6kc36hCW reageer retweet

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How Public Opinion Has Moved on Black Lives Matter


The survey is not the only one to suggest that recent protests enjoy broad public support. Weekly polling for the Democracy Fund's U.C.L.A./Nationscape survey shows a significant increase in unfavorable views of the police, and an increase in the belief that African-Americans face a lot of discrimination.

Perhaps most significant, the Civiqs data is not alone in suggesting that an outright majority of Americans agree with the central arguments of Black Lives Matter.

A Monmouth University poll found that 76 percent of Americans consider racism and discrimination a "big problem," up 26 points from 2015. The poll found that 57 percent of voters thought the anger behind the demonstrations was fully justified, while a further 21 percent called it somewhat justified. Polls show that a majority of Americans believe that the police are more likely to use deadly force against African-Americans, and that there's a lot of discrimination against black Americans in society. Back in 2013, when Black Lives Matter began, a majority of voters disagreed with all of these statements.

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op maandag 06-07-2020 om 02:00:00 The creator of Mount Rushmore's forgotten ties to white supremacy: Sculptor Gutzon Borglum was deeply involved with the Ku Klux Klan while designing the Confederate memorial at Stone Mountain, Ga. https://t.co/PsxubjsxzV reageer retweet

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He attended Klan rallies, served on Klan committees and tried to play peacemaker in several Klan leadership disputes, Taliaferro writes.

“On a strictly mercenary level, he saw the Klan’s burgeoning, highly organized network throughout the South and the Midwest as a source of funds for his expensive undertaking. More than that, however, he came to view the Klan as a promising grass-roots movement with the potential to reshape the political map of the nation,” according to “Great White Fathers.”

Borglum was a racist long before arriving in Atlanta. The sculptor referred to immigrants as “slippered assassins" and warned that America was becoming an alien “scrap heap.” But the Klan might have hardened Borglum’s existing prejudices, Taliaferro writes.

In a letter to a friend in New Jersey in the early 1920s, Borglum asked, “Is it true you joined the Ku Klux Klan? I hope so. They’re a fine lot of fellows as far as I can learn and if they elect the next President, by gosh I’m going to join ‘em.”

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Op maandag 6 juli 2020 03:29 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
En nog een leerzaam stukje geschiedenis over de maker van vele sculpturen om de verering van een racistische ideologie levend te houden waaronder die van Stone Mountain en Mount Rushmore.

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op maandag 06-07-2020 om 02:00:00 The creator of Mount Rushmore's forgotten ties to white supremacy: Sculptor Gutzon Borglum was deeply involved with the Ku Klux Klan while designing the Confederate memorial at Stone Mountain, Ga. https://t.co/PsxubjsxzV reageer retweet

The creator of Mount Rushmore's forgotten ties to white supremacy

Sculptor Gutzon Borglum was deeply involved with the Ku Klux Klan while designing the Confederate memorial at Stone Mountain, Ga.

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Op maandag 6 juli 2020 04:08 schreef Hathor het volgende:

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Wat een mede BLM oprichter jaren geleden gezegd heeft is niet relevant, maar dat de designer van Mount Rushmore sympathie had voor de KKK is OOOOOH en AAAAAHHH.

Juist ja.

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Op maandag 6 juli 2020 04:12 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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Zie mijn toevoeging. Dat was het hele doel van de wildgroei in monumenten.

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Op maandag 6 juli 2020 04:16 schreef Hathor het volgende:

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Je toevoeging is slechts de mening van een columnist, daar kan ik niet zoveel mee. Meningen wegwuiven omdat ze van een paar jaar geleden en dus niet relevant zijn, en vervolgens met zo'n voorbeeld komen, daar kan ik wel iets mee, namelijk heel hard lachen.

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At the same time that Borglum was drawing up his plans for Stone Mountain, D.W. Griffith released “Birth of a Nation,” the epic silent film about the Civil War and Reconstruction. In the film, the Ku Klux Klan rescues the South from white carpetbaggers and freed slaves who had turned the great Confederacy into a drunken Sodom.

The film, which opened in January 1915, grossed an unprecedented $60 million in its first run. It also inspired a resurgence of the Klan, which coincided with Borglum’s development of the Confederate monument. The Klan soon became a major funder of the memorial.

The Birth of a Nation - Full Movie - (1915) 1080p HD - The Masterpiece of Racist Cinema

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Breaking911 twitterde op maandag 06-07-2020 om 06:58:31 Atlanta Mayor, Keisha Lance Bottoms, says "Enough is enough... you shot and killed a baby." during a press conference today addressing the shooting death of an 8-year-old girl last night in southeast Atlanta. @11AliveNews https://t.co/zFmPfCV30g reageer retweet

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wsbtv twitterde op maandag 06-07-2020 om 00:16:14 Parents of 8-year-old killed last night: "They say black lives matter. You killed your own this time. You killed a child." https://t.co/U2niKwoxXF https://t.co/xY0jj2o2sb reageer retweet

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SeidenWSBTV twitterde op maandag 06-07-2020 om 02:27:39 Just arrived at the scene of triple deadly shooting. This is just feet from where a young girl was shot and killed last night. https://t.co/jUNLLu1uPz reageer retweet

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NYPDPBMN twitterde op zondag 05-07-2020 om 23:18:59 Disgraceful the amount of people shot in Manhattan North in the past 24 hours! Where are the elected officials and violence interupter!! The community is suffering!! reageer retweet

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NYPDPBMS twitterde op maandag 06-07-2020 om 00:50:39 Manhattan DA Cy Vance where are you? No show at any shooting scene!!! Our community is being attacked, there have been 24 people shot in the city in the past 24 hours....Where Are You!!! reageer retweet

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HomelandKen twitterde op zondag 05-07-2020 om 21:19:56 Pipe bomb materials from one of the violent rioters last night in Portland. Prosecution forthcoming... https://t.co/32IOePTyCB reageer retweet

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Op maandag 6 juli 2020 02:35 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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Vlak boven je zijn die uitspraken ook al gepost. Worden ze voor de zoveelste keer gepusht door bepaalde media of zo?

Ik kan ingaan op het hoe, waarom en wanneer ervan maar het is gewoon echt niet relevant wat een mede-oprichter jaren geleden gezegd heeft.

De uitspraken van één van de mede-oprichters van BLM zijn nl niet representatief voor de huidige beweging die op gang kwam na de dood van George Floyd en waar miljoenen mensen aan deelnamen. Het is niet voor niets dat de steun voor BLM vanuit de maatschappij sindsdien in de VS (en ik vermoed ook wereldwijd) enorm is toegenomen en dat komt omdat het juist wél om gelijke rechten gaat.

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nytimes twitterde op woensdag 10-06-2020 om 18:20:03 American voters' support for the Black Lives Matter movement has increased in the last 2 weeks almost as much as it had in 2 years, according to new data from an online survey research firm https://t.co/rT6kc36hCW reageer retweet

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Op maandag 6 juli 2020 09:04 schreef Enchanter het volgende:

ARMED BLACK MILITIA ASKS WHITE DRIVERS ABOUT "REPARATIONS" AT GUNPOINT

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CurtisHouck twitterde op zondag 14-06-2020 om 05:01:26 Video: CNN attacked by its own side as rioters set fire to the Wendy's in Atlanta. Fellow lefties attacked them, harassed them, and broke their camera.

I don't like CNN very much (you all know that), but let them be and do their biased thing.

I repeat: LEAVE CNN ALONE. https://t.co/SgGmF95kTV reageer retweet

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Op maandag 6 juli 2020 09:39 schreef Aurelius het volgende:
CNN journalisten krijgen klappen

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CurtisHouck twitterde op zondag 14-06-2020 om 05:01:26 Video: CNN attacked by its own side as rioters set fire to the Wendy's in Atlanta. Fellow lefties attacked them, harassed them, and broke their camera.

I don't like CNN very much (you all know that), but let them be and do their biased thing.

I repeat: LEAVE CNN ALONE. https://t.co/SgGmF95kTV reageer retweet

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Op maandag 6 juli 2020 09:30 schreef Red_85 het volgende:

iedereen die 'gecanceled' wordt door uitspraken van lang terug.

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Op maandag 6 juli 2020 09:51 schreef KoosVogels het volgende:

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Waarom post je nieuws dat bijna een maand oud is?

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Op maandag 6 juli 2020 09:52 schreef Isdatzo het volgende:

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En wat vind je daarvan?

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Op maandag 6 juli 2020 09:04 schreef Enchanter het volgende:

ARMED BLACK MILITIA ASKS WHITE DRIVERS ABOUT "REPARATIONS" AT GUNPOINT

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Armed Black Militia Challenges White Nationalists at Georgia's Stone Mountain Park

About 1,000 heavily armed militia, all of whom were Black, marched through Georgia's Stone Mountain Park on Saturday, challenging white nationalist groups in the area to either come out and fight or join them in demonstrating against the government.

Stone Mountain State Park officials said the Black militia group was peaceful, orderly and escorted by police as they called for the removal of the country's largest Confederate monument near Atlanta.

Videos posted to social media show the group, the "Not F**king Around Coalition" (NFAC), meeting at the massive nine-story quartz sculpting that depicts former Confederate president Jefferson Davis and Southern generals Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson.

NFAC Founder Grand Master Jay told Newsweek via phone Sunday that the militia members at Stone Mountain on Saturday were "100 percent Black" and they are not affiliated with Black Lives Matter. "We are a Black militia. We aren't protesters, we aren't demonstrators. We don't come to sing, we don't come to chant. That's not what we do," he said.

The NFAC head explained why several videos show the militia members alongside demonstrators earlier in the day before heading to Stone Mountain. Grand Master Jay told Newsweek the sister of Rayshard Brooks, who was killed outside an Atlanta Wendy's by police last month, requested the NFAC militia provide her with a security escort to a downtown rally that began at the site of her brother's death.

"Our initial goal was to have a formation of our militia in Stone Mountain to send a message that as long as you're abolishing all these statues across the country, what about this one?" Grand Master Jay said, referencing the massive Confederate carving.

He added that he must commend Stone Mountain police for offering the all-Black militia support as they exercised their constitutional rights on July 4th.

"It was all Black ... there were no brown people, no white people... everyone was Black. I am not a protester, I am the commanding general of my militia, we were swearing in new members," he added, highlighting there was a second militia "show of force" Saturday near Phoenix.

The coalition of Black militia met at the monument, which is historically tied to the birth of the Ku Klux Klan and has more recently been the site of white nationalist rallies. Leaders of the militia frequently halted the protest to challenge local white supremacists and far-right Second Amendment advocates to "stop hiding."

"I don't see no white militia, the boogie [boogaloo] boys, the three percenters and all the rest of these scared-ass rednecks. We here, where the f**k you at? We're in your house," one protester said into a PA system during the Stone Mountain Park march.

John Bankhead, a spokesman for the Stone Mountain Memorial Association, said the protests were orderly and acknowledged the Confederate monument is frequently used as a meeting place for far right-wing militia.

"It's a public park, a state park. We have these protests on both sides of the issue from time to time. We respect people's First Amendment right," Bankhead told WXIA-TV. "We understand the sensitivities of the issue here at the park ... so we respect that and allow them to come in as long as it's peaceful, which it has been."

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Op maandag 6 juli 2020 10:11 schreef Red_85 het volgende:

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Ben ik weer goed genoeg voor je om tegen te praten?

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Dacht dat ik hier in conversatie ging met kijkertje.

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Op maandag 6 juli 2020 09:04 schreef Enchanter het volgende:

ARMED BLACK MILITIA ASKS WHITE DRIVERS ABOUT "REPARATIONS" AT GUNPOINT

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Op maandag 6 juli 2020 03:29 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
Een leerzaam stukje geschiedenis over de maker van vele sculpturen om de verering van een racistische ideologie levend te houden waaronder die van Stone Mountain en Mount Rushmore.

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op maandag 06-07-2020 om 02:00:00 The creator of Mount Rushmore's forgotten ties to white supremacy: Sculptor Gutzon Borglum was deeply involved with the Ku Klux Klan while designing the Confederate memorial at Stone Mountain, Ga. https://t.co/PsxubjsxzV reageer retweet

The creator of Mount Rushmore's forgotten ties to white supremacy

Sculptor Gutzon Borglum was deeply involved with the Ku Klux Klan while designing the Confederate memorial at Stone Mountain, Ga.

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En ja dit soort monumenten werden echt neergezet met het doel om die verwerpelijke ideologie in stand te houden:

Confederate Statues Were Built To Further A 'White Supremacist Future'

✅ CNN gushed about Mt. Rushmore when Bernie Sanders was touting it 4 years ago

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Op maandag 6 juli 2020 05:28 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

Enfin ik heb niet de illusie dat het ook maar iets uitmaakt

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jasonrantz twitterde op maandag 06-07-2020 om 00:11:40 Yesterday @twmentality1 blamed violence against protesters on a "racist monster" that Trump apparently incited. When it turned out the suspect is black, the tweet below was deleted. https://t.co/b2cQIUztU9 reageer retweet

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MayorJenny twitterde op zaterdag 04-07-2020 om 18:31:21 Early this morning two women were hit by a car and very seriously injured while peacefully protesting. Many others were almost hit and witnessed this horrific event. Our city stands beside their friends, families and loved ones in praying for these women and all who were there. reageer retweet