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Forgive me for having a hard time believing this days-late statement after the way every co-chair conducted themselves in defense of Mallory’s support for Farrakhan. No member of the LGBT community, the Jewish community, or any woman, has any reason to trust you after this.

And let‘s not forget that nearly every other co-chair of the Women’s March has voiced support for Farrakhan or defended his defenders in the past, @lsarsour just recently. I hope y’all get your shit together, I really do. But you won’t be receiving my money or my support again.

For clarification: I never donated to Woman’s March and now I never will.

Those 4 co-opters are not & never were “The Leaders” of women’s march. They stole it from the (HRC pantsuit nation) originator in Hawaii. They’ve been trying to grab the people power of Women’s March & claim it as their own since they came on the scene w BS. We’re NOT buying it.

Not only that, they use it to shill for Bernie. Remember they wanted him to be the opening speaker for the “Women’s Convention”. I stopped following after they honored Assata Shakur on her birthday. That just deligitized the whole movement. No justification for murder

Yes I remember. Those 4 are not the women’s movmt, they do not speak for us. The movmt & marches are a powerful force independent of them. Don’t dismiss the mvmt.

Ok then help us get them out. I'm not being part of any movement or attending any event with Women's March in its title when its national leaders praise a raging antisemite. That's complicity to me. So yes the movement will fall apart if we don't take care of this.

Have a look at @BravenakBlog and Marching Onward on FB

The women who assumed leadership (@TamikaDMallory @lsarsour) responded to criticism of their support for bigot, Farrakhan, by defending it/dismissing those hurt. Their tone deaf response to criticism (again) shows these “leaders” are out of step w this movement & must step down.

The Women’s March is bigger than these four women. They don’t seem to understand that. As a result, they’re hurting the movement as a whole. WE, the marchers, are the movement. WE decide who speaks for us. They have abused the privilege of being our voice. They have to go.

Are they the ones tha booked @SenSanders #dividerinchief to be a speaker?

Nowhere in this statement does it disavow Farrakhan or state that you will discontinue associating with him. This is worse than Trump’s Charlottesville blunder. Ya’ll are a catastrophe.

We are “not aligned” with those values isn’t much of a condemnation. How hard is it to say bigotry in all forms is repulsive and unacceptable? This is some weak sauce bullshit, folks.

“We are not aligned with those views” seems like careful language that avoids challenging what is clearly hate speech.

Right? Seems like challenging hate speech should be really easy for someone calling themselves progressive leaders.

It’s back to some of the original statements “opinions vary. We don’t all have to agree.” There’s no 2-sides to antisemitic hate. Stop treating hate speech like it’s legitimate. WHY does need to be explained to a civil rights org?

"There are very fine people on both sides of the Tiki Torch parade!" -Trump & Women's March Joint Statement

I'm sorry. I need to leave this alone. I really hate Farrakhan and thought he was dead but he popped back up and I remember how much I always hated him.

I watched a couple of his recent appearances in an effort to be fair. We all know how he’s been used by racists to smear people who met him once in 1975. What I saw though was outrageous. And I do wonder about any one who sits in a room and listens to it.

And @bobblanddesign statements about all the good he’s done for people: has she watched him speak? It’s really really bad.