(July 20, 2020 at 12:37 pm)Huggy Bear Wrote:(July 8, 2020 at 8:13 am)Eleven Wrote: About BLM
It seems to me that some members of this forum are against having allies, even though the mission statement of the movement is all inclusive. Allies, after all, should not be turned away or dismissed in any way. Refusing an ally is merely the selfishness of pride clouding reason, after all.
Those so called "allies" for the most part, are there to co-opt and draw the spotlight to their own agenda.
To be clear, they chose to celebrate juneteenth by putting a blm fist on a transgender flag... what does slaves being freed have to do with LBGT? Besides a juneteenth flag exists, why not use that?
I don't have any idea why this video is referring to the Transgender flag as the BLM flag, at this point BLM is nothing more than an LBGT organization.
I am glad you weighed in on this. I have been under the impression that athene is not all that thrilled with the BLM movement and now it appears that you also don't consider them allies. That's a side many of us need to hear and take in.
With all the grousing and carrying on over adopting a BLM logo on the forum header and snarky remarks about those of us who didn't jump right on that bandwagon, it's good to hear how this movement really plays to black members of the forum. I freely admit my ignorance in having knowledge of the movement and just wasn't on board with running that flag up the pole to see who salutes.
A lot of people here would like to be of help when it comes to the racial divide in this country and others but I don't think any of us really wants to start by doing something that isn't going to help and may, in fact, harm.