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Or all that sympathetic to the cause: the local conservative news site typically depicts BLM supporters as unreasonable and unruly protesters who exist solely to inflame racial tensions.

So, of course, the folks at Alpha just loved the video Trey Turner posted to Youtube last week.

In the 20-minute video, Turner, a mixed-race 27-year-old raised in a Twin Cities suburb, recounts how he rapidly fell in and out of favor with local Black Lives Matter groups.

Turner says he intends to "expose the truth about Black Lives Matter," which the storyteller says he was drawn to after Jamar Clark's death in a police shooting in Minneapolis.

Turner had trepidation about the movement, having seen "violence" during demonstrations in Ferguson, Missouri, and Baltimore, but a friend assured him BLM espoused no "hatred toward whites."

Later, after Philando Castile was killed by a cop in Falcon Heights, Turner followed the Black Lives Matter cause to the governor's mansion in St. Paul. His first night during that leg of the protest was "fun," reporters Turner, thanks in part to the presence of "some alcohol" and "some weed."

(Oh man, Alpha News just knew it!)

Turner then blows the lid off the fact that some protesters were "Bernie Sanders supporters, anti-Trumpers."

Go on Trey...

"And I had been a Trump supporter prior to going out there."

(Record scratch noise.)

"Trump" as in Donald Trump? As in the guy who wanted the Central Park Five executed, the first black president deported, and whose campaign's race relations strategy was calling any place with more than three black people in it a "disaster" and a "warzone"? Him?

"I had debates with some of the people out there," Turner continues, recounting his Black Lives Matter stint. "We had intelligent debates, which is hard to believe, because it was liberals."

Is it becoming clearer why Trey Turner has quickly become the first Black Lives Matter member Alpha News has ever liked?

Turner claims he overheard Black Lives Matter members, leaders and organizers alike, hatching a plot of "burning down" the governor's mansion, other mansions of Summit Avenue, St. Paul City Hall, the St. Paul Police Department, the Minnesota State Capitol, and the "white suburban area of Roseville, Minnesota," if there was no indictment of Geronimo Yanez, the police officer who killed Philando Castile.

In the end, Ramsey County Attorney John Choi decided to charge Yanez with second-degree manslaughter and other offenses. And it's thanks to that decision that every major public structure in Minnesota's capital city and the whole of Roseville is not reduced to a pile of ash.

So now you know why Turner's video has more than 21,000 Youtube views, and has quickly become a favorite of right-wing blogs.

They finally found a black guy who will tell them what they want to hear about Black Lives Matter. Truth bomb: It's just as scary as they've always imagined.

In a response statement posted to Facebook, Black Lives Matter organizer Corydon Nilsson denied Turner's most outrageous claims. Neither of the two men Turner mentioned were even "organizers with Black Lives Matter Saint Paul," Nilsson writes, though he credits both for doing an "excellent job of keeping things non-violent and peaceful at the [governor's] mansion."

Nilsson says the two organizers forced Trey Turner to leave "after he consistently created problems, was intoxicated and would not respect others."

The threats Turner claims to have heard would be "extremely out of character" for those two guys.

Unlike this Youtube video, the mini-viral one produced by a Trump-loving conservative infiltrator of Black Lives Matter, who went to protests to talk about black-on-black crime, to deny racism's impact on black people, to criticize Islam, to say "police and whites" are right to "naturally have a fear towards a group of people" who "kill each other at such an alarming rate."

This, we can assume, is extremely in character for Trey Turner.

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Hes admittedly obsessed with the disgusting president

In order to promote diversity and inclusion on campus, Texas Christian University paid a Black Lives Matter activist $5,000 to call President Donald Trump a rapist.

Shaun King, a New York Daily News columnist with a reputation for mocking students who ask him tough questions, told a student audience that he has written probably over 100 articles about Donald Trump and I follow his news very closely, according to the conservative campus newspaper The Freedom Frog.

I think he is terrible human being, King said, adding later: I think [Trump] is a disgusting person.

The event was hosted by TCUnity, a student-led initiative to promote advocacy for diversity and inclusion that started last year, as part of its Unity Week last week.

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The group chose King, who has said he is three-quarters white, as an ideal speaker to discuss race relations.

The student government covered Kings $5,000 fee, saying in an approved bill that King would be beneficial to educate students, faculty, and staff on racial and ethnic issues by facilitating open dialogue and conversations to better TCUs social climate and understanding on these issues for all students.

The bill also justified Kings appearance by citing recent student protests on campus and a list of demands, likely referring todemands made by the Black Students And Allies Of TCU.

Their listcalled for a 10 percent increase in nonwhite faculty, a zero tolerance policy for racially insensitive and hateful speech, and a $100 million endowment to support minority students.

They also demanded the flag be lowered when people of color around the nation are murdered by people who are supposed to protect and serve.

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Official campus news organization TCU360 focused on Kings description of the Trump era as crazy times, his discussions about violence against black men and the selfies he took with audience members.

The Freedom Frog, on the other hand, noted that King brought up decades-old rape accusations against Trump by his then-wife, Ivana.

MORE: Shaun King bullies students who ask him tough questions

His first wife testified under oath that he brutally raped her and violently assaulted her and pulled out huge chunks of her hair. She told her friends about it, King said. That should have been the end of his career, that was in 1989.

Trump has consistently denied this, and in 2015 Ivana Trump called the allegations without merit and said she was the best of friends with her ex-husband.

King also encouraged students to try to force your colleges hand to become a sanctuary campus that doesnt cooperate with federal immigration authorities.

Fox 4 said that King told the station it wasnt his decision to close the event to outside media.

Much fanfare for Shaun King, none for Allen West

I thought Mr. Kings speech was very divisive, not to mention ironic, TCU College Republicans President Matt VanHyfte told The College Fix.

With it being TCUnity Week, I find it incredibly unfortunate that TCUs Student Government Association (SGA) decided to bring someone that only causes division between groups of people rather than unifying them, he said in an email.

It was irresponsible of SGA to not bring another speaker with countering and opposing views so students have the ability to see both points of view and develop their own opinions, VanHyfte said.

MORE: Black students issue demands because of black students offensive cartoons

Andrew Wilbraham, a junior economics major, contrasted the administrations hype of Kings speech with its silence when retired U.S. Army Lt. Colonel Allen West, a former Republican congressman, spoke on campus.

West visited TCU last April at the invitation of the Young Americans for Freedom chapter. Several students questioned his past statements, but a rumored plan to shut down his speech never materialized.

Campus leaders have picked a side on the political spectrum, Wilbraham told The Fix. They never missed a step when advertising Shaun Kings speech, but when Allen West came to speak you wouldnt have even known.

TCU provides diverse learning opportunities

TCU junior Annabel Scott, editor-in-chief of The Freedom Frog, said her family pays a significant amount of money for my education at TCU and she was deeply disappointed in TCUs decision to fund Kings appearance on campus.

Sophomore Lauren Dooley praised TCU for welcoming speakers of all opinions, backgrounds, and purposes, but told The Fix that Kings role in Unity Week was odd.

MORE: Students walk out of Allen West speech because he says radical Islam

Its just confusing when one comes per request of the university for unity week, a movement all students have gotten behind, but preached disgust towards our students who supported our current president before ideas on how to improve race relations, she said.

An administration spokesperson told The Fix that it had nothing to do with the King invitation, but said TCU provides diverse learning opportunities for students.

Many student- and faculty-led organizations throughout the Texas Christian University community sponsor a variety of campus speakers in any given academic year, he said. The university does not support political, ideological or personal statements associated with any of them.

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Chyna Gibson, Ciara McElveen, and JacquarriusHarris, three black trans women out of New Orleans, Louisiana, were killed within a two-week period last month. And not so much as a pin smattering has been heard from black cis men, particularly those black cis men who tout black lives matter. No outrage. No hashtag. No marches. Nothing.

What happened?

Cis black men monopolizing and narrowing the prism of black victimhood, authentic blackness and the banner of Black Lives Matter, thats what. And you know what, its getting kind of old and tiresome. FrFr.

Especially after one takes into account all the receipts pointing to the high level of violence haters have perpetrated specifically against trans women of color in the past 3 years, pretty much the extent of the existence of Black Lives Matter.

In 2014, the year former officer Darren Wilson shot 18-year-old Michael Brown and Cleveland officers murdered 12-year-old Tamir Rice, 12 trans women who identified as either Black or Latina were murdered.

In 2015, the year South Carolina ex-officer Michael Slagerkilled Walter Scott, 9 black transgender women lost their lives to a toxic cocktail of transphobia, cis privilege, abuse, and violence.

In 2016, the year an officer murderedPhilandoCastille in cold blood in front of his family, 15 trans black women became the tragic victims of a hate crime.

And since January 2017, at least 5 blacks trans women have been killed.

Yet, let cis black men tell it, cis black men and cis black men ALONE are THE priority, the only targets of violence, the only racially-victimized members of the black community that warrant attention. Let cis black men call it, theres not enough room in the black freedom struggle to be concerned about and address the dreadful circumstances and regular deaths of trans sisters. Entertaining these folks, wed be tempted to walk away with the preposterous notion that cis black men, by default, constitute the totality of black culture and single-handedly ignited the black lives matter movement.

Of course, all of this is alie.

Related: Dear Black Men: Black Womens Lives Matter, Too.

Three black women Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, and Opal Tometi founded the Black Lives Matter hashtag that would eventually evolve into a movement. Even before the popularity of this recent resurgence of the black power movement, Garza, Cullors and Tometiwere committed to advancing black issues within their own field and invested in the long-term work of organizing on behalf of ALL black people. Equally important is the fact that at least two of these women, Garza and Cullors, are visible, proud members of the LGBTQ community, a note which, said out loud, makes it all the more peculiar to endure cis black men revising contemporary history to depict the movement for black lives as a struggle started by black cis persons, but, through some form of covert manipulation and scheming, co-opted and led by faggots.

In a movement whose expressed mission is to encapsulate the specific experiences and unique struggles of a diversity of black bodies and black sexual identities, incubating this kind of perspective simply wont do. Permitting the continued spread of this mode of thinking wont do. Black transphobia, period, wont do.For nothing short of the integrity and enduring legacy of moral leadership of a group of people is on the line.

For nothing short of the integrity and enduring legacy of moral leadership of a group of people is on the line.

On this question, this issue, cis black men gotta get their shit together and do better than this. And, truthfully, the this that we shouldve been doing shouldve been done yesterday, but today and tomorrow will have to suffice.

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One of first things I would suggest we must do is deal seriously with our own inner gender insecurities. From there, we have an obligation to conquer our homophobia and transphobia. From there, we are obligated to recognize that black transgender women are still black and just as authentically black as any other slice of the black community.

Cis black men must start organizing and showing up for protests that center black trans women and deploy their cis privilege on their behalf of trans sisters. Cis black men must start viewing their trans sisters as allies not antagonists and abnormalities, as well as empathize with and memorialize their fallen black bodies with the same depth of pain and emotion that they, we, would a Trayvon Martin, an Eric Garner or a Freddie Gray.

And if black lives matter is to mean anything anything at all it must be that the whole range of black performativity and identities cis, trans, queer, bi, etc. are welcomed with opened arms and protected with closed fists.

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An honors program at a public university gives students a scholarship and early course signup and lets them use laptops if they take classes on subjects like white privilege and Black Lives Matter, which both have community engagement components.

Sam Houston State University in Texas (SHSU) offers a scholarship of up to $2,800 to students who take these courses or others as part of its Elliott T. Bowers Honors College. Students who gain admission into the Honors College can sign up for courses earlier than their non-Honors peers, obtain access to a special computer center, and automatically receive the Bowers Scholarship upon acceptance into the college. The Honors students also graduate with distinction and gain usage of cameras, video cameras, and laptops for their class projects.

Understanding Whiteness: Historic and Contemporary Viewpoints on Privilege, asks SHSU Honors students how might white people better understand white privilege and their potential role in dismantling systemic racism? and requires students to engage in personal self-reflection and educate others about white privilege through action research projects and community engagement initiatives.

The seminar examines white privilege from modern and historical perspectives, e.g., the social construction of whiteness, as well as key historic events and movements advancing white privilege (eugenics, global colonization, holocaust).

The Black Lives Matter Honors College seminar is taught by associate professor Ervin Malakaj, who co-chairs SHSUsDiversity Committee for the College of Humanities and Social Sciences.

The Black Lives Mattermovement has called on Americans to address the racial violence, mass incarceration, and dehumanizing social policies directed at African Americans, reads the seminar description.

The BLM course is part of SHSUs Academic Community Engagement (ACE) program, which blends teaching with community engagement.

Other seminars offered by the Honors College include a course examining the physiology of sexual function, and a course called, Culture and Society: Harry Potter.

SHSU, a taxpayer-funded public school, also offers three other scholarships to its Honors College participants, with amounts set at $500 per semester and $500 per year.

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GALLOWAY TOWNSHIP Members of the Unitarian Universalist Congregation placed a new Black Lives Matter sign outside their church after taking down an old one that was defaced several times.

The members of the predominately white congregation said it was important to replace the sign because the term Black Lives Matter is a way to help build bridges and end the racial divide across the country.

We live in a community of diverse people and we need to recognize that we stand for everyone being included at the table, said the Rev. John Marsh, interim minister at the church. Faith communities live by symbols. This sign is meant to be a religious symbol of inclusion and welcome.

The church installed a Black Lives Matter sign in 2015 but took it down after it was vandalized several times.

Now, the church has put up the new sign and has prepared several more just in case this one has to come down. It also installed security cameras to try and catch anyone who attempts to vandalize the new sign.

Local civil-rights activists who spoke at the church commended its members for standing with the black community.

The Rev. William Williams, pastor at Asbury United Methodist Church in Atlantic City, told the congregation during a prayer service the goal is to build bridges and have a conversation.

He also spoke of educating children about black history and the meaning behind the Black Lives Matter movement in school more than just during the month of February.

Atlantic City Councilman Kaleem Shabazz told the congregation the sign is a bigger deal than most people realize.

This is a tremendous, symbolic gesture of unity, he said. Its more than a sign. Its a symbol of the commitment that this church has to justice and equality. And that is something that is important.

Shabazz said he applauds their courage for putting up the sign.

You can believe that other people will take a cue from you, he said. They may not have the courage to put up a sign, but its going to move them closer to being united.

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