1. Pelosi's words are being dismissed as a gaffe, a sign of verbally ineptness or lack of thought. But there's something more interesting and important at work about not understanding what Black Lives Matter means.https://twitter.com/therecount/status/1384624338683502592 …
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4. The radical claim of Black Lives Matter is that all Black lives matter, not just the heroes & the martyrs. This is in the face of a white supremacy where it's all too easy for any Black life, not just the heroes & martyrs, to face state violence. Pelosi's words obscured that
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5. Pelosi's attempt at a false consolation point to a fissure between the Democratic leadership and the social movements that continue to press for change. More thoughts on this (and other things) here:https://jeetheer.substack.com/p/how-not-to-mourn-george-floyd …
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I don't like this.he didn't sacrifice his life. It was taken from him in a brutal and sadistic way.
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Perhaps Nancy Pelosi's point was that until ALL Black Lives Matter, any one can be Martyred by the random wanton forces of the law. Emmett Till was Martyrized. DO we have to wait 50 years to point this out?
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So was Emmett Till, and he's been talked about as a martyr quite a bit.
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Floyd was not an activist, he was as accused of committing a misdemeanor and ended up summarily executed by a police officer. The focus should be on his civil rights that were violated, he wasn't trying to advance any cause nor would it have been relevant.
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Not sure “ordinary person” cannot be a martyr. This explanation seems rather academic.
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