Over the last 12 months, troubling truths about the organization have emerged including its ties to convicted domestic terrorist Susan Lisa Rosenberg, who was part of the May 19th Communist Organization that wanted to overthrow the government in the 1970s and 1980s. Supporters say the organization is finally correcting decades of injustice and rebalancing the scales. Critics say they are trying to rewrite history and erase any indicator of white success, particularly in America. It's because of the issues spearheaded by BLM and its organizers that schools have been renamed, statues have been torn down and industry rules have been entirely rewritten. Today, it describes its mission as one that will 'eradicate white supremacy and build local power to intervene in violence inflicted on Black communities by the state and vigilantes'. When it first launched, BLM sought to bring attention to and prevent police violence against African Americans. The killing of George Floyd by cop Derek Chauvin in May last year galvanized the Black Lives Matter movement, making it a household name around the world and raising millions for an organization that many had never heard of before.īut as people rushed to support the cause, horrified by Floyd's killing and other instances of racism in America and beyond, cracks began to appear in the organization that, in the last 12 years, has reshaped much of the country.
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