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Four years ago Thursday, the Black Lives Matter movement came into existence, shifting both how many Americans perceive social justice and the lexicon used to describe racial injustices.
"Four years ago, what is now known as the Black Lives Matter Global Network began to organize," the organization wroteon its website."It started out as a Black-centered political will and movement building project turned chapter-based, member-led organization whose mission is to build local power and to intervene when violence is inflicted on Black communities by the state and vigilantes. In the years since, weve 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."
The movement began after George Zimmerman,the man who killed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, was acquittedin Florida. Since then, there have been countless killings of black Americans that the movement has addressed and put a spotlight on. In the wake of the deaths of Eric Garner in New York City, Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, 12-year-old Tamir Rice in Cleveland, Walter Scott in South Carolina, Freddie Gray in Baltimore and many others, "Black Lives Matter" became a rallying cry and hashtag in the wake of police-involved deaths of African-Americans.
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The protestshaveput the movement in the crosshairs of some Americans, President Donald Trump included. After Trump won the election, the movement said in a statementto Mic, in part: "What is true todayand has been true since the seizure of this landis that when black people and women build power, white people become resentful. Last week, that resentment manifested itself in the election of a white supremacist to the highest office in American government.... Donald Trump has promised more death,disenfranchisementand deportations. We believe him."
The president has targeted the organization, especially protesters who have taken to the streets. The White Housewebsite went live after inauguration and promised to end the"anti-police atmosphere" while noting "our job is not to make life more comfortable for the rioter, the looter, or the violent disrupter." Slate wrote about this shift withthe headline "In One of His First Acts as President, Donald Trump Put Black Lives Matter on Notice."
In May, Trump delivered a speech that the conservative outlet The Washington Times noted took "aim at Black Lives Matter" and slammed"'hostility and violence'against police."
The Washington Post wrote in May that Black Lives Matter hada renewed sense of purpose under Trump, but had adopted a shift toward effecting policy as opposed to organizing protests. As Newsweek previously reported,hate crimes are rising across all marginalized groups in 2017, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center and Human Rights Campaign.
"What people are seeing is that there are less demonstrations," Alicia Garza, one of the three women who createdthe #BlackLivesMatter hashtag, told The Washington Post. "A lot of that is that people are channeling their energy into organizing locally, recognizing that in Trump's America, our communities are under direct attack."
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Dana Loesch has found herself the target of Black Lives Matter and women's groups for a recent NRA ad in which she called on people to resist the left's lies, propaganda and political violence.
Loesch was personally called out in a recent Black Lives Matter video that urges activists to "produce media, teach students, march and protest to not only protect the First Amendment as fiercely as the NRA protects the Second [Amendment], but to protect our lives from gun-toting racists."
Also, the organizers behind January's Women's March have planned a new protest at the NRA headquarters, scheduled to start tomorrow. It also was partially in response's to Loesch's ad.
Loesch said it's "incredibly ironic" that these groups claim to be inclusive and support free speech, when that actually couldn't be further from the truth.
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She said that Black Lives Matter was started with the noble goal of addressing discord between African Americans and law enforcement, but now they're fostering more division instead of solving it.
Loesch pointed out that they're requesting the NRA pull her ad, which violates her right to free speech.
She added that the Women's March is actually a "discriminatory organization," because they're only for some women, not all women.
She explained that they don't want pro-life women or women who want to be empowered to use the Second Amendment.
"Somehow leftism or progressivism has the patent on being a female, it has the patent on being gay or a lesbian, it has the patent on being black or being a Muslim," Loesch said. "And it doesn't. And that's what I find discriminatory."
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The Planet of the Apes movie series has always been racially problematic. Starting with the originals in the late 1960s and 70s and extending to the reboots starting in 2011, the films have a sort of hackneyed white-liberal-pontificates-about-race element to them that is at times compelling and other times insulting.
Apes, even superintelligent apes, as a proxy for black Americas struggle for liberation (as opposed to robots or elephants or superhero mutants) is a little tone-deaf, given the sustained racist associations between blacks and monkeys. Either way, with War for the Planet of the Apes opening this weekend, the movie stepped into controversy by not just aping the struggle for black liberation but possibly straight appropriating it.
Did War for the Planet of the Apes model the Bad Ape character after Black Lives Matter activist DeRay Mckesson? It certainly looks like it, and given Hollywoods racist history, its not crazy that some people think so.
On Monday morning, Tariq Nasheed, the left foot of Hotep-Twitter Voltron, tweeted the following poster from the upcoming movie:
The image started making its way around Twitter and Facebook, accomplishing something that Hotep appearances on Roland Martins show, The Breakfast Club and even Dr. Boyce Watkins show couldnt accomplish: It brought Hotep Twitter and mainstream Black Twitter together. Although there were some doubters about the racist nature of the new movies imagery, like St. Louis City Alderman, and representative of the sunken-place district, Antonio French.
Most folks saw the image as being a bit too close to Mckessons Patagonia-vest-wearing-activist image to think it was a fashion coincidence in the movie.
By Monday night, Mckesson had stepped into the discussion, making it clear that he didnt feel flattered:
Which led defenders of the movie, including right-wing film directors, to justify the blue vest as an homage to the original 1968 film.
Which, of course, Black Twitter wasnt trying to hear. We arent falling for the banana in the tailpipe again, especially when there are real monkeys involved:
This story actually ended up on The View, with Whoopi Goldberg, brandishing her Ph.D. in whitesplaining from Caucasity University, slamming Mckesson for not knowing film historybut still conveniently neglecting to mention that Planet of the Apes movies have always been about race. All of this over a movie that, likely, nobody in these various conversations has actually seen yet.
Ive seen every Planet of the Apes movie, and I saw War for Planet of the Apes at a press screening, in a mostly black theater, in Atlanta, with a very black friend. I enjoyed it and didnt see anything negatively racial about it. And this is coming from a guy who thought Spider-Man: Homecoming was racist.
Nothing about the Bad Ape character, including his blue coat (its more of a coat than a vest in the movie), made me think of Mckesson, Campaign Zero or Black Lives Matter. None of the CGI monkeys screamed #ApeLivesMatter. Caesar didnt put out a #BringBackOurGorillas sign when the Human Army, led by the crazy Colonel (a phoned-in mad-military-guy performance by Woody Harrelson), captured some of the apes.
Prior to this controversy, my review was focused on how most of the series political messaging about the environment, animal rights and race was wrung out of War for Planet of the Apes. That being said, people mad about the movie arent wrong.
There are few items of clothing more inextricably linked to one person than DeRay Mckesson and his blue Patagonia vest. Michael Jackson and his sequined glove, Pharrell Williams and that Hat, maybe former President Barack Obamas khaki Easter Sunday deacon outfit. Mckessons blue vest has its own Twitter account, it went to the BET Awards and theres legitimate symbolism behind why McKesson wears it.
If you saw a Disney musical featuring a monkey wearing a sequined glove, youd think of Jackson, and youd be wondering who dressed that monkey and why it had its own pet monkey. The point is, Mckesson and the thousands of people who saw the image and thought of him are not crazy or conspiracy theorists; they reflect Mckessons incredible brand penetration.
More importantly: WE HAVE SEEN THIS BEFORE. American popular culture is full of examples of insulting characters made to look or sound black even when they are ostensibly something else: Jar Jar Binks from Star Wars, Skids and Mudflap from Transformers, Ben Carson. The list goes on and on. Between Mckessons brand, Hollywood racism and the fact that the entire Apes franchise is supposed to be an allegory for American race relations, many people reached the reasonable conclusion that War for the Planet of the Apes came for Mckesson.
If you choose to see the movie, youll probably come away with a different impression, however. War for the Planet of the Apes is basically a postapocalyptic action movie at this point, and a pretty entertaining one. The movie shows the frighteningly quick evolution of the apes as characters. In earlier films they could only make ape sounds; now they use sign language. Those who knew sign language now talk; and Caesar, the ape leader, is giving Obama-level oratory and is playing the dozens with human adversaries.
The movie works best when it weaves together great elements from the original movies and explains, through a slow-burning and disturbing mystery, how monkeys and human beings could switch places on the intellectual pyramid in just under 20 years. This movie isnt the racial catharsis of watching apes strike a Django-like blow against their human (i.e., white) oppressors. Humanity has already lost to the apes; it just spends two hours trying to accept it. Outside of the occasional 101 Dalmatians-Smurfs problem (in some scenes, there are thousands of apes in Caesars group; at other times, they could barely field a basketball team), its the best movie of the reboot series.
Anyone who chooses not to see War for the Planet of the Apes because he or she believes its a secret attempt by the Hollywood Illuminati to lure black folks into a sense of complacency has every right to skip this one. Anyone who doesnt see the movie because he or she believes that the producers of a movie about historic racial discrimination should have known better than to put a monkey in a blue coat or vest can skip it, too. (Its worth noting that Mckesson actually deleted his tweet critiquing the film poster.)
Heck, anyone who just cant stand the idea of being indirectly in agreement with Whoopi Goldberg on a racial issue can take a hard pass as well. But take it from someone who gives racial side eye to just about any science fiction film: I think War for the Planet of the Apes passes the smell test. However, given Hollywoods history, if you want to teach it a lesson to be more careful in the future, that makes perfect sense to me. Hollywood has made more than enough money off of putting black pain in a monkey suit.
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You cant just curl up in a fetal position, Holder said Wednesday night to approximately 800 leftist lawyers at the Westin St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco. According to the San Francisco Chronicle,he was speaking attheannual fundraiser for Legal Aid At Work. Its the responsibility of all of us to keep our hands on that arc, he said. There is fighting to be done, there are lawsuits to be brought. You can never underestimate the power of the American people.
California,which has voted for the Democrat in every presidential election since 1992, is seen as the headquarters of the Resistance movementagainst Trump. To that effect, Holder told the crowd to be unafraid and determined because [t]heres a lot of creative negativity going on in Washington, and were going to have to stay busy.
TheChronicle notes that the song Revolution by the Beatles played as Holder left the stage, following his pep talk.
Inthe Obama administration, Holder oversaw the smuggling of weapons across the Mexican border,in what became known as the Fast and Furious scandal. While the program was presented as a way to track drug cartels, it is believeditwas also created as away tohelp Democrats push for greatergun control. Holder was eventually held in contempt of Congress.
Throughout the United States, and particularly in the deep blue state of California, at least 20 alumniof the Obama administration are running for political office to secure Obamas name.
Adelle Nazarian is a politics and national security reporter for Breitbart News. Follow her onFacebookandTwitter.
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