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The meeting, which takes place April 15th, invites people tomeet, strategize and organize events and isapparently family-friendly, with families encouraged to bring their children along as well.

After criticism directed at the decision, the group defended their policy, stating that If you identify as a person of the African Diaspora you can attend our meetings and become a member. If not you can support us in other ways.

One Twitter user suggested that Martin Luther King Jr. would never have supported such a policy, and the group simply said that he made that choice and we have made ours.

The group alsopointed to the fact that the black nationalist Malcolm X had a similar policy of not allowing white people to attend his meetings.

The Philadelphian Black Lives Matter branch is not the first to try a policy of discrimination based on skin color. Last year,Nashville Public Libraryofficials informedNashvilles chapter of Black Lives Matter members that the groups open to black and non-black people of color only meetings policy was prohibited onpublic property.

However, the upcoming meeting in Philadelphia takes place at the independently funded Mastery Charter School,meaning they are not subject to the same equality laws prohibiting such a policy.

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