Posted October 14, 2015 5:32 PM ET; Last updated October 18, 2015 12:01 AM ET
[This comment was deleted from the Cambridge Chronicle web pages. I reposted it. Let's see if they delete it again. That's what you call tolerance, indicating the editors at this local weekly share the BLM policy of segregation. What's old is new. If a white group came up with this idea what would they be called? Hello? Anybody home?]
Will multi millionaire black athletes, celebrities, politicians and drug dealers be permitted to attend? Do they share the same interests and difficulties as residents of the Cambridge Housing Authority? Will white voters and wealthy taxpayers be permitted by this tolerant civil rights organization to have their own white only candidate forum? Will Nancy Ryan support racially separate discussions of public policy? Is this what the White House and Al Sharpton mean by equal treatment and equal opportunity? This just extends the black supremacist policies of the taxpayer funded WGBH-TV weekly program Basic Black which is limited to black only guests and black only issues. Few of these guests are poor. Many are extremely ambitious and vigorously competitive academics and show business professionals.
[From article]
Black Lives Matter Cambridge has organized a candidates night that limits audience members to residents of the Cambridge Housing Authority and people of color, leading some to object to the exclusion of other residents.
According to organizers, only inviting residents of color and those living in low-income housing allow the dialogue and questions to center around issues that matter most to them.
“Black Lives Matter is a movement to end the color blindness that has left black people in our current state,” said Stephanie Guirand, lead organizer of Black Lives Matter Cambridge. “Cambridge is all about color blindness. We need to center black people and people of color so that our issues get addressed. It's time we start naming these problems before we are completely erased, which is where these housing policies are forcing us to go.”
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Nancy Ryan, co-chair of the Area Four Neighborhood Coalition, said she feels this is exactly why the BLM organized the forum.
“I understand it. I've been to Black Lives Matter meetings and they are deeply committed to having the full participation of people who more often don't participate in our electoral process,” said Ryan. “I believe their purpose and intent is essentially good.”
http://cambridge.wickedlocal.com/article/20151014/NEWS/151018098
Black lives only at Cambridge candidate forum
Black Lives Matter Cambridge has organized a candidates night that limits audience members to residents of the Cambridge Housing Authority and people of color, leading some to object to the exclusion of other residents.
By Amy Saltzman
asaltzman (at) wickedlocal.com
Posted Oct. 14, 2015 at 1:13 PM
CAMBRIDGE Chronicle
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