Movement for Black Lives releases its agenda

[ksen]

https://policy.m4bl.org/

http://www.vox.com/2016/8/2/12341708/black-lives-matter-policy-platform

The agenda is built on six key platform proposals:

Ending the war on black people: This section of the platform focuses heavily on criminal justice reform to stop the systemic criminalization of black people. The demands include demilitarizing the police, ending the criminalization of black youth, and implementing anti-discrimination protections for black transgender, queer, and gender nonconforming people.

Reparations: Here the platform details ways to rectify the harms done to black people, including full and free access to quality education for black people, federal and state legislation to acknowledge long-term effects of slavery, and a guaranteed minimum livable income.

Invest-divest: The panel offers ways of redirect funds used to criminalize black people toward investing in black communities. The recommendations proposed include reallocating money for policing into local restorative justice services and employment programs and divesting in fossil fuels for local sustainable energy solutions.

Economic justice: This platform focuses on economic restructuring. In addition to proposing restructured tax codes to better redistribute wealth, the plan also demands the Glass-Steagall Act be restored to break up large banking institutions, protecting the rights for workers to unionize, and ending the privatization of natural resources.

Community control: This section focuses more specifically on ensuring that the community has control over institutions responsible for protecting and serving them. This includes giving communities the right to determine disciplinary actions for law enforcement at the local, state, and federal level and putting an end to privatized education policies for more democratically controlled school boards.

Political power: Along with addressing systemic issues, the platform makes the case for fostering black people’s right to exercise their full political power. In addition to decriminalizing political activities, this section demands protecting black people’s right to vote, taking money out of politics, and breaking down the digital divide through full access to technology and net neutrality.

A good start.

 

[JonA]

Movement for Black Lives releases its agenda...

... and it's utterly unintelligible.

 

[KeepTalking]

Movement for Black Lives releases its agenda...

... and it's utterly unintelligible.

Your inability to understand what it says does not make it unintelligible for those of us who are not blinded by ideology.

 

[ksen]

Movement for Black Lives releases its agenda...

... and it's utterly unintelligible.

It's written in plain, grammatically correct english. Maybe the problem is on your end?

 

[laughing dog]

"Black lives" or "reparations" are trigger words for the usual snowflake SJWers to shrink into the intellectual fetal position.

 

[GenesisNemesis]

Well if you're going to give them those reparations, might as well do the same for Native Americans, who also got completely screwed over but who gives a shit because we completely forgot about them.

 

[PyramidHead]

Sounds like Bernie Sanders' platform for all Americans.

 

[dismal]

Well if you're going to give them those reparations, might as well do the same for Native Americans, who also got completely screwed over but who gives a shit because we completely forgot about them.

I bet the All Lives Matter people would give us all reparations.

 

[Trausti]

Gimme gimme gimme.

 

[coloradoatheist]

Number 1 is the real argument. But shouldn't they have focused on stuff to prevent the incidents we've had. Changing the laws so an unseatbelted prisoner who is hurt is charged with a crime. Making it easier to prosecute cops who shoot people. Limiting enforcement of non moving violations, etc.

That net neutrality, that's a big one for blacks.

 

[ksen]

Number 1 is the real argument. But shouldn't they have focused on stuff to prevent the incidents we've had. Changing the laws so an unseatbelted prisoner who is hurt is charged with a crime. Making it easier to prosecute cops who shoot people. Limiting enforcement of non moving violations, etc.

They sound like they need a good whitesplanation about what their real arguments should be.

That net neutrality, that's a big one for blacks.

As a white dude you should know best.

 

[Trausti]

They sound like they need a good whitesplanation about what their real arguments should be.

That net neutrality, that's a big one for blacks.

As a white dude you should know best.

If you didn't want us to comment on it why did you post it?

 

[dismal]

If you didn't want us to comment on it why did you post it?

He was using his white privilege.

 

[ksen]

They sound like they need a good whitesplanation about what their real arguments should be.

As a white dude you should know best.

If you didn't want us to comment on it why did you post it?

What makes you think I don't want you guys to comment on it?

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If you didn't want us to comment on it why did you post it?

He was using his white privilege.

White privilege is like sick time: use it or lose it.

 

[coloradoatheist]

They sound like they need a good whitesplanation about what their real arguments should be.

That net neutrality, that's a big one for blacks.

As a white dude you should know best.

It's like starting salary negotations at $1million so you can bargain for something instead of going in with practical, realistic changes

 

[Loren Pechtel]

https://policy.m4bl.org/

http://www.vox.com/2016/8/2/12341708/black-lives-matter-policy-platform

The agenda is built on six key platform proposals:

Ending the war on black people: This section of the platform focuses heavily on criminal justice reform to stop the systemic criminalization of black people. The demands include demilitarizing the police, ending the criminalization of black youth, and implementing anti-discrimination protections for black transgender, queer, and gender nonconforming people.

Reparations: Here the platform details ways to rectify the harms done to black people, including full and free access to quality education for black people, federal and state legislation to acknowledge long-term effects of slavery, and a guaranteed minimum livable income.

Invest-divest: The panel offers ways of redirect funds used to criminalize black people toward investing in black communities. The recommendations proposed include reallocating money for policing into local restorative justice services and employment programs and divesting in fossil fuels for local sustainable energy solutions.

Economic justice: This platform focuses on economic restructuring. In addition to proposing restructured tax codes to better redistribute wealth, the plan also demands the Glass-Steagall Act be restored to break up large banking institutions, protecting the rights for workers to unionize, and ending the privatization of natural resources.

Community control: This section focuses more specifically on ensuring that the community has control over institutions responsible for protecting and serving them. This includes giving communities the right to determine disciplinary actions for law enforcement at the local, state, and federal level and putting an end to privatized education policies for more democratically controlled school boards.

Political power: Along with addressing systemic issues, the platform makes the case for fostering black people’s right to exercise their full political power. In addition to decriminalizing political activities, this section demands protecting black people’s right to vote, taking money out of politics, and breaking down the digital divide through full access to technology and net neutrality.

A good start.

A good start at tearing the nation apart, that is.

Reality:

1) What war on black people? It's in the minds of the agitators that get their position from stirring up trouble. If there's any war it's on poor people.

2) Reparations. How about an air ticket to Africa in exchange for your passport? Other than that, we are a mix of oppressors and oppressed, race does not mark you as being in one group or the other.

3) Investment. Try fixing the problems and the investment will come! Businesses don't invest where they expect the costs to be too high and the profits too low.

4) Economic justice. What's racial about this? And it's misguided besides--breaking up large banks would if anything make matters worse as there would be more actors to keep an eye on. "Too big to fail" isn't relevant--taking out a bunch of smaller banks would have done just as much damage. The fix here is totally different--the government intervention should have come at the price of a considerable portion of their stock.

5) Community control. Sounds like a codified lynch mob. They hate the fact that most of their high profile cases turn out to be nothing and they want to persecute those they see as guilty anyway.

6) Political power. They have too much as it stands--required majority-minority districts. District lines should be drawn by simple formulas with no regard for the nature of the occupants. (Although I would make one change--allow someone to continue to represent a district they got redistricted out of.)

 

[JonA]

Movement for Black Lives releases its agenda...

... and it's utterly unintelligible.

Your inability to understand what it says does not make it unintelligible for those of us who are not blinded by ideology.

What ideology is that? Be specific.

 

[JonA]

Movement for Black Lives releases its agenda...

... and it's utterly unintelligible.

It's written in plain, grammatically correct english. Maybe the problem is on your end?

It is a jabberwockian cacophony of buzzwords and sloganeering. As an example: "systemic criminalization of black people" is complete nonsense; there is no war on black people and it is not a crime to be black (what the phrase 'criminalization of black people' actually means).

The entire thing is devoid of content and offers no meaningful solution to any of the imaginary problems it mentions. There are only two things anyone can really get out of reading this: that 1) whoever wrote it is angry about something; and that 2) they have no idea what it is they're angry about or how to fix it.

 

[KeepTalking]

Your inability to understand what it says does not make it unintelligible for those of us who are not blinded by ideology.

What ideology is that? Be specific.

It could be one of many ideologies that have recently begun to manifest themselves in BLM Derangement Syndrome.

 

[laughing dog]

It is a jabberwockian cacophony of buzzwords and sloganeering. As an example: "systemic criminalization of black people" is complete nonsense; there is no war on black people and it is not a crime to be black (what the phrase 'criminalization of black people' actually means).

You contradict yourself. You claimed it was unintelligible, but yet you made sense of it.

The entire thing is devoid of content and offers no meaningful solution to any of the imaginary problems it mentions.

This suggests you have not read the proposal. For example, they call for the restoration of the Glass Steagall Act. Whether one agrees or not with that goal, it is not devoid of content, and it is a meaningful solution.

There are only two things anyone can really get out of reading this: that 1) whoever wrote it is angry about something; and that 2) they have no idea what it is they're angry about or how to fix it.

Summertime is tough on snowflake SJWers like yourself. Find a nice cool spot, chill out, and then try reading and responding. Otherwise, your posts just sound like they come from some reactionary old man sitting on his porch who yells at the passerbys for walking on his sidewalk.