Black Lives Matter Is Democracy in Action

[mystery-ak]

Black Lives Matter Is Democracy in Action

By BARBARA RANSBYOCT. 21, 2017

CHICAGO — Why has this generation of black activists failed to produce a Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. or a Malcolm X — a charismatic, messiah-like figure who can lead a major movement?

The answer is a choice, not a deficiency. The suggestion that the organizations that have emerged from the Black Lives Matter protests are somehow lacking because they have rejected the old style of leadership misses what makes this movement most powerful: its cultivation of skilled local organizers who take up many issues beyond police violence.

This is radical democracy in action. The Movement for Black Lives, a coalition that includes the Black Lives Matter Global Network and other groups, coalesced in response to high-profile police shootings of black people from 2014 to 2016. It is reinvigorating the 21st-century racial-justice movement, and by extension the anti-racist left, by offering a better model for social movements.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/21/opinion/sunday/black-lives-matter-leadership.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fopinion&action=click&contentCollection=opinion&region=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=sectionfront

[skeeter]

Ain't democracy grand?

[stephen50right]

Black Lives Matter Is Democracy in Action

By BARBARA RANSBYOCT. 21, 2017

CHICAGO — Why has this generation of black activists failed to produce a Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. or a Malcolm X — a charismatic, messiah-like figure who can lead a major movement?

The answer is a choice, not a deficiency. The suggestion that the organizations that have emerged from the Black Lives Matter protests are somehow lacking because they have rejected the old style of leadership misses what makes this movement most powerful: its cultivation of skilled local organizers who take up many issues beyond police violence.

This is radical democracy in action. The Movement for Black Lives, a coalition that includes the Black Lives Matter Global Network and other groups, coalesced in response to high-profile police shootings of black people from 2014 to 2016. It is reinvigorating the 21st-century racial-justice movement, and by extension the anti-racist left, by offering a better model for social movements.

more
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/21/opinion/sunday/black-lives-matter-leadership.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fopinion&action=click&contentCollection=opinion&region=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=sectionfront

I didn't read the article other than what was posted, a few paragraphs from the article, and some of what was posted is just not correct.

There was a Malcolm X produced...his name is Barack Hussein Obama. Malcolm X was a leftist Muslim and so is Obama. I've never believed that Obama is a Christian for a number of reasons. And for sure Obama is a leftist.

With the old Youtube videos on Malcolm X, one can hear his speeches and interviews, and know the influence it had on Obama, or on others who influenced Obama.

[bolobaby]

Thank God we live in a representative republic instead of a mob rule democracy!