{"id":40429,"date":"2020-11-11T11:54:13","date_gmt":"2020-11-11T16:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=40429"},"modified":"2020-11-11T11:54:13","modified_gmt":"2020-11-11T16:54:13","slug":"this-could-be-very-interesting-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=40429","title":{"rendered":"This Could Be Very Interesting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/black-lives-matter-pens-letter-to-joe-biden-and-kamala-harris-we-want-something-for-our-vote?fbclid=IwAR2Ti_vcONpMI8qH-8RhqAm3DQ_18_GAZB7aEyZ_Fi9rfrBcEa1WVapvrnA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Daily Wire<\/a> posted an article about a letter recently written to Vice-President Joe Biden and Senator Kamala Harris by BLM co-founder and executive director Patrisse Cullors.<\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>BLM co-founder and executive director Patrisse Cullors said members are \u201crelieved that the Trump era in government is coming to a close,\u201d adding, \u201cAs we celebrate his electoral demise, we also know that his political exit does not ensure an end to the intolerable conditions faced by Black people in America.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>On behalf of the BLM Global Network, Cullors <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Blklivesmatter\/status\/1325501868345155584\">wrote<\/a>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><strong><em>Without the resounding support of Black people, we would be saddled with a very different electoral outcome. In short, Black people won this election. Alongside Black-led organizations around the nation, Black Lives Matter invested heavily in this election. \u201cVote and Organize\u201d became our motto, and our electoral justice efforts reached more than 60 million voters. We want something for our vote.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><strong><em>We want to be heard and our agenda to be prioritized. We issue these expectations not just because Black people are the most consistent and reliable voters for Democrats, but also because Black people are truly living in crisis in a nation that was built on our subjugation. Up until this point, the United States has refused to directly reckon with the way it devalues Black people and devastates our lives. This cannot continue. Black people can neither afford to live through the vitriol of a Trump-like Presidency, nor through the indifference of a Democrat-controlled government that refuses to wrestle with its most egregious and damnable shame.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I can guarantee that if Joe Biden ever sits in the White House, listening to the demands of Black Lives Matter will not bring the country together.<\/p>\n<p>The following is from a post at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=40062\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">rightwinggranny<\/a> in September:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Black Lives Matter has recently scrubbed their website. However, on September 8, I wrote an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=39927\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">article<\/a> that included some quotes from a \u201cWhat We Believe\u201d page that was then on their website. I apologize for not taking a screenshot (it didn\u2019t occur to me that they would take down the page)\u2013I just copied the quotes. That page no longer exists on their website. When you read the following quotes from the page, you might make an educated guess as to why:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><strong>We disrupt the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure requirement by supporting each other as extended families and \u201cvillages\u201d that collectively care for one another, especially our children, to the degree that mothers, parents, and children are comfortable.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><strong>We foster a queer\u2010affirming network. When we gather, we do so with the intention of freeing ourselves from the tight grip of heteronormative thinking, or rather, the belief that all in the world are heterosexual (unless s\/he or they disclose otherwise).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Is this a voice you want creating American policy?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday The Daily Wire posted an article about a letter recently written to Vice-President Joe Biden and Senator Kamala Harris by BLM co-founder and executive director Patrisse Cullors. The article reports: BLM co-founder and executive director Patrisse Cullors said members &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=40429\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9829,118,8625,13097,11823],"class_list":["post-40429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-black-lives-matter","tag-joe-biden","tag-kamala-harris","tag-patrisse-cullors","tag-the-daily-wire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40429"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40430,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40429\/revisions\/40430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}