I don't agree with the method or means of BLM either. I find it too focused on one issue. Although that issue is life - a very important issue - it does not hope to consider the ways that cause police brutality. Police brutality is a serious issue, but what's also even more serious is the person who thinks a black person whose car is wrecked after an accident is inherently dangerous and calls the police telling them that they're going to be robbed. The police will have to respond with force if they're told there's a robbery, and what could have been prevented in the first place cut aside for absolute distrust in wide swaths of black people. By concentrating on police brutality you focus on a symptom, not the cause. It's also no surprise many black lives matter people like Kaepernik didn't vote. Even if he didn't agree with the president candidates, there was a down ticket prop about speeding up the process for the death penalty, which unequivocally effects black men. Still, he decided to sit his mulatto ass down. BLM is all talk, no real answers. I abandoned the organization earlier this year. I'd love to make my own organization but don't know how, have the time, nor the willpower.
I am not in the black community or a minority, so I may be missing some obvious blind spots, so feel free to point out any ignorance in my thinking. But in all this stuff over the last couple of years, namely the marginalization of BLM, Trump's coalition, Democratic disregard for minority issues at higher levels of government(sans a lukewarm mobilization for a path to citizenship), and growing and intensifying Hispanic prejudice in the Republican party, might it be a good idea to try and pool resources and organize around some broad, common ground amongst black, receptive latino groups and maybe other minority groups to form a stronger political foundation from which to fight with? At least on those broad, common ground issues?
I am from the most diverse city in America.
I'll tell you this: we are already doing that. We have formed alliances beyond racial lines and there's a broad brown and black alliance now. This includes lgbtq although it is not racial. At least, this is true of my city and among activist organizations. My cities activists won. Our organization is so thorough that Salon ran an article on how we are combining forces to tackle the same problems.
So we're already a step ahead of you.
I guess what I was talking about was attempting something that can organize into a semi unified, multi-state coalition. BLM but more structure, a broader coalition, with more focused goals that politicians can build platforms around and will feel more pressure and a larger mandate to spend their political capital on.
You have a number of states, Texas being the biggest example, where in isolation, neither blacks or hispanics are enough to seriously challenge the white majority politically. But together? They are actually a larger combined demographic then whites. Though realistically a decent chunk of hispanics are conservative in Texas, and hispanic turnout is an issue in its own right. Still, strategies like that, in states and cities this is advantageous due to demographics, seems like a pretty good way in my mind of mobilizing a stronger force to influence the political stage in the state and national arenas.
All in all though there are about another 10 states in similar situations to Texas, where combined, black and hispanics would make up 30 to 40%+ of the population. Some traditionally red, some blue, spread all across the country.
To me that just seems the logical path to maximize the political footprint for some of the most pressing issues of minority communities.
