Garza and Cullors first made the #BlackLivesMatter hashtag viral following the release of Martin’s killer. Their group also owns BlackLivesMatter.com and has been a proponent of firing the police.
‘Yes, I’m educated in various economic philosophies,’ Cullors said in a statement via a spokesman, but added, ‘I refuse to be diminished after one clip from an interview that was manipulated for white supremacist and right-wingers. “They refused an interview.
Melina Abdullah, a Pan-African Studies professor at California State University, Los Angeles and head of BLM’s LA chapter, wrote the passage about the nuclear family featured on the BLMGN website. Abdullah declared that it was “a confirmation of the African principle that it takes a village to raise a child. It calls for the idea that we are all responsible for our collective children.”
Republican efforts “to address this statement have in fact opened up an important conversation within the Black community,” Abdullah said. “It did not have the downside that I think they wanted it.”
In a sign that the Marxism tag may already be falling flat, Giuliani’s attacks on Thursday took it a step further, and false accusations from BLM activists of terrorists. “These are people who hate white people,” Giuliani told Fox News. “These are killers.”
Some Republican strategists believe that the combination of summer injustices, the controversial views of some BLMGN members, plus the mainstay of ‘defending the police’, have given them an opening to diminish Democrats’ current election advantage. Democrats and BLM organizers pointed to the polls, describing the GOP strategy as a naked racist last hostage that will not gain traction outside the right-wing echo chamber.
“The average voter in that swinging suburb does not think of BLM as such [select] leaders of the movement, ”said Jefrey Pollock, president of voting agency Global Strategy Group, which works with Democrats in swing house and Senate races. “They are thinking about the bigger conversation that is happening about African Americans and racial injustice.”
Currently, more than 60 percent of Americans support the movement, according to recent polls. And 62 percent of white people say that minorities are not treated equally in the criminal justice system – up 18 points since 2014.
Voters in urban areas support the BLM movement by 73 percent, suburban voters by 62 percent and rural voters by 54 percent, according to July Navigator research conducted by GSG and GBAO Strategies delivered to POLITICO.
However, one senior Republican strategist noted that while support remains high, opposition to the BLM movement rose 9 points in July, according to Civiqs.
Ian Prior, a Republican strategist working for District Democrat Rep. Matt Cartwright in Scranton, Pa., Dismissed, acknowledging that BLM is difficult to fight against, but claimed that the movement – and Democrats support it – have given Republicans an opening to support police.
“Explain the difference between the Black Lives Matter movement and the sentiment of Black Lives Matter – there is nuance and nuance is hard in politics,” he said. “But support for law enforcement, that’s not nuanced and that’s where I think you’ll see a lot of Republican messages in tough races.”
So far, Republican candidates who are currently posting ads have mostly refrained from directly appointing the BLM movement. In ads aired from May 25 to the end of July, only one GOP ad in a primary race used the words “Black Lives Matter”, while liberals said they did not care about Black Lives, and another used the term “violent thugs,” according to an analysis provided by Ad Analytics.
But as primaries move – dragging on because of the pandemic – and general election disasters rise, Democrats in vulnerable seats support more Republicans to step up their attacks.
“I actually stood in front of 1,500 people at a Black Lives Matter Rally and explicitly stated that I did not agree with the slogan ‘defund the police,'” Malinowksi said. “And it will not stop them from accusing me of defusing the police, because that’s just this Republican talking point everywhere this year.”
Although, in particular, Malinowksi’s Republican opponent, state Sen. Thomas Kean Jr., attended a BLM rally this summer.
Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden has run a similarly tight round – including protests’ urgent condemnations of racial injustice without the support of any of their proposed solutions, such as calls to “defend the police.”
Asked for comment on BLMGM’s co-founders, Biden’s campaign referred to earlier statements about the campaign track when he said, “I’m not a socialist.
