Black Lives Matter deletes its "What We Believe" page

[jmdrake]

You can't even pull it up on archive.org. But I remember reading it. Bill O'Reilly remembers too.

Edit: A different archive site has it. https://archive.is/oARH0 They probably blocked crawlers using a "robots.txt", but that's just a "Please don't index me" note which a program can easily ignore. This also shows the planned to scrub this page.



Bill made one mistake in his analysis. He said that the page said they were against the traditional family but were for the "nuclear" family. The nuclear family is the traditional family. They said they were "Against the Western prescribed nuclear family." They then used weasel words to try to "fix it" by talking about the extended family. But the extended family has always been compatible with the nuclear family. The holidays of Thanksgiving, Christmas, July 4th etc all center around bringing nuclear families together for the extended family. And blacks, whites and other ethnic groups have all practiced this nuclear-extended family paradigm. But, traditionally, the nuclear family has been considered an indivisible unit. Mom (mother-in-law to spouse) is welcome to come visit and even given solicited advice, but she's not welcome to butt in. The "it takes a village to raise a child" concept that Hillary Clinton plagiarized and perverted is similar. In healthy communities people look out after other people's children. Again, blacks, whites and other ethnic groups have done that since before this was a nation. On the frontier that was a necessity. But again, the nuclear concept is important for reason of boundaries.

Anyway, the document was indefensible, very unpopular among blacks as a whole, and it's why the average black person will say "I support black lives matter the movement, not the organization."

Check this out. (And share it.)

 

[Anti Globalist]

They must have not realized that even if the page is deleted, people will just screenshot it before the page get deleted.

 

[AngryCanadian]

They must have not realized that even if the page is deleted, people will just screenshot it before the page get deleted.

The damage has being done though i dont see how BLM can recover from this mess. You do know that kickstarter is still showing we support BLM? ever since kickstarter has been doing that users had being moving away from the social justice driven kickstater.

 

[Anti Federalist]

Just in case it does go down the memory hole:

What We Believe
Four years ago, what is now known as the Black Lives Matter Global Network began to organize. It started out as a chapter-based, member-led organization whose mission was to build local power and to intervene when violence was inflicted on Black communities by the state and vigilantes.

In the years since, we’ve committed to struggling together and to imagining and creating a world free of anti-Blackness, where every Black person has the social, economic, and political power to thrive.

Black Lives Matter began as a call to action in response to state-sanctioned violence and anti-Black racism. Our intention from the very beginning was to connect Black people from all over the world who have a shared desire for justice to act together in their communities. The impetus for that commitment was, and still is, the rampant and deliberate violence inflicted on us by the state.

Enraged by the death of Trayvon Martin and the subsequent acquittal of his killer, George Zimmerman, and inspired by the 31-day takeover of the Florida State Capitol by POWER U and the Dream Defenders, we took to the streets. A year later, we set out together on the Black Lives Matter Freedom Ride to Ferguson, in search of justice for Mike Brown and all of those who have been torn apart by state-sanctioned violence and anti-Black racism. Forever changed, we returned home and began building the infrastructure for the Black Lives Matter Global Network, which, even in its infancy, has become a political home for many.

Ferguson helped to catalyze a movement to which we’ve all helped give life. Organizers who call this network home have ousted anti-Black politicians, won critical legislation to benefit Black lives, and changed the terms of the debate on Blackness around the world. Through movement and relationship building, we have also helped catalyze other movements and shifted culture with an eye toward the dangerous impacts of anti-Blackness.

These are the results of our collective efforts.

The Black Lives Matter Global Network is as powerful as it is because of our membership, our partners, our supporters, our staff, and you. Our continued commitment to liberation for all Black people means we are continuing the work of our ancestors and fighting for our collective freedom because it is our duty.

Every day, we recommit to healing ourselves and each other, and to co-creating alongside comrades, allies, and family a culture where each person feels seen, heard, and supported.

We acknowledge, respect, and celebrate differences and commonalities.

We work vigorously for freedom and justice for Black people and, by extension, all people.

We intentionally build and nurture a beloved community that is bonded together through a beautiful struggle that is restorative, not depleting.

We are unapologetically Black in our positioning. In affirming that Black Lives Matter, we need not qualify our position. To love and desire freedom and justice for ourselves is a prerequisite for wanting the same for others.

We see ourselves as part of the global Black family, and we are aware of the different ways we are impacted or privileged as Black people who exist in different parts of the world.

We are guided by the fact that all Black lives matter, regardless of actual or perceived sexual identity, gender identity, gender expression, economic status, ability, disability, religious beliefs or disbeliefs, immigration status, or location.

We make space for transgender brothers and sisters to participate and lead.

We are self-reflexive and do the work required to dismantle cisgender privilege and uplift Black trans folk, especially Black trans women who continue to be disproportionately impacted by trans-antagonistic violence.

We build a space that affirms Black women and is free from sexism, misogyny, and environments in which men are centered.

We practice empathy. We engage comrades with the intent to learn about and connect with their contexts.

We make our spaces family-friendly and enable parents to fully participate with their children. We dismantle the patriarchal practice that requires mothers to work “double shifts” so that they can mother in private even as they participate in public justice work.

We disrupt the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure requirement by supporting each other as extended families and “villages” that collectively care for one another, especially our children, to the degree that mothers, parents, and children are comfortable.

We foster a queeer‐affirming network. When we gather, we do so with the intention of freeing ourselves from the tight grip of heteronormative thinking, or rather, the belief that all in the world are heterosexual (unless s/he or they disclose otherwise).

We cultivate an intergenerational and communal network free from ageism. We believe that all people, regardless of age, show up with the capacity to lead and learn.

We embody and practice justice, liberation, and peace in our engagements with one another.

 

[r3volution 3.0]

I have no comment on the substance of the OP, but Bill O is one of the very worst human beings to ever yap on television.