#ThatAwkwardMoment When You Realize People Deflecting Equality Issues with Another Issue in Response

#ThatAwkwardMoment When You Realize People Deflecting Equality Issues with Another Issue in Response to Social Justice Activism is Just a Distraction Tactic. It’s Not About Free Speech… It’s Not About Religious Liberty… It’s Not About the Constitution… It’s Not About Black-on-Black Crime… Whether It’s LGBTQ Rights, Racial Justice or Gender Equality, this Deceptive Diversion Tactic MUST Stop for Us to Move Forward and Create a Better America for EVERYONE. Read the Articles Below for More Insight:“Of the many concerns unearthed by the protests at two major universities this week, the velocity at which we now move from racial recrimination to self-righteous backlash is possibly the most revealing. The unrest that occurred at the University of Missouri and at Yale University, two outwardly dissimilar institutions, shared themes of racial obtuseness, arthritic institutional responses to it, and the feeling, among students of color, that they are tenants rather than stakeholders in their universities. That these issues have now been subsumed in a debate over political correctness and free speech on campus—important but largely separate subjects—is proof of the self-serving deflection to which we should be accustomed at this point.” Continue Reading The New Yorker’s Article here: http://bit.ly/1XjNqXd “A powerful example of this is when Black communities protest the systematic assault by police on their communities and a Fox news pundit, media representative, or even a professor counters by asking,What about Black on Black crime? This is a derailing strategy because people feel compelled to respond to the question of ‘Black on Black crime,’ while the conversation regarding police brutality is interrupted” Continue Reading Truth Out’s Article here: http://bit.ly/1PUps4gDon’t Forget About Our Annual #BlackoutBlackFriday Initiative and Our Free Events in LA, NYC and Oakland. RSVP to Our LA Event Featuring Three Film Screenings, One Panel, Spoken Word Performances and Toy/Toiletry Drive: http://bit.ly/BBFLA15  -- source link

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