Top 7 Times Black Lives Matter Stood Up for Innocent Whites and Police
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Huffington Post and The Nation
The following is an except from my previous article, with the appropriate sources cited:
Lilly Workneh and Kai Wright, spokespeople for black social issues and BLM commentators, shortly after the deadly Dallas shootings of innocent cops wrote pieces in The Huffington Post and The Nation, respectively, both emphasizing the fact that BLM “spreads love, not hate ― and it condemns violence altogether” (Workneh), as well as the reality that “if Dallas changes anything about the movement for black lives, it is only to remind us that in order to truly ensure black lives are valued, we will have to confront the broader culture of violence that has long gripped this nation” (Wright). This last statement is especially important, because it is very inclusive of whites and blacks as American citizens against a common threat of police- and state-enforced violence.
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