#oakmtg Mayor @LibbySchaaf just said she’s dedicated to “culture keeping” and I literally had to stifle a laugh. Girl, how you gon keep culture without the PEOPLE?
The respectability of this moderation is disgusting. A young man from East Oakland interrupted and the response of the moderator was incredibly condescending and spiteful.
Libby Schaaf’s rebuttal to spending nearly half of the city’s budget on a racist, rapist police force is to say Oakland is no longer #2 on the most dangerous cities list and “i don’t think anybody wants to go back there.”
Yum, fear politics.
@CatsCommentary says if we could prosecute and incarcerate our way to safety, the U.S. would be the safest country in the world because we do that more than anyone else. #oakmtg
That FACT. 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Every candidate raised up how the homelessness rate has blown up by upwards of 30% under @LibbySchaaf’s administration. Her rebuttal? “Every city on the West Coast has seen homelessness rates rise the same as Oakland’s.” FLAT OUT LIE.
This was a young person who said he’s from East Oakland, where most of Black Oakland is. Instead of drawing him in, establishment Democrats admonished and mocked him. This is why they will continue to lose.
We’ve been telling y’all about Deray for years. But when I told folks about his abusive behavior towards Black women in Ferguson, including me, folks attacked me. That’s when I knew folks didn’t give a fuck about Ferguson, we got thrown away for a clown in a costume.
And while we’re at it, Alicia Garza canceled an appearance in STL years ago and made local activists out to be violent because she knew folks would confront her the same way they just did deray.
Y’all wanna y’all about it for real or NAH?
In case you missed it: watch Deray and Alexis get confronted by Ferguson activists for consistently co-opting and lying about the movement.
I got wind that BlackLivesMatter might be attempting to dissolve their national staff (with salaries well over 6 figures) back into local chapters. With no accountability around the MILLIONS of dollars in donations that never made their way to chapters or people doing work.
Anyone who donated to that org should be wondering where the majority of the donations went. But I’ve been telling y’all this for years.
just gonna drop this email here...
While “focusing on local organizing” sounds cute, there’s a LOT unanswered about the national staff and where all the money went.
Also, notice how the first main objective listed is “aggressive fundraising”. So they can blow more $ on vacays.
....so I find out, YET again, that someone that calls themselves a founder of movement has found a way to monetize on something I said in the moment yeeeeears ago.
...and it would be a common enough statement to believe in coincidence except their attempt to popularize it now and internet search clearly shows it wasn’t.
But ppl will believe what they want + say it’s was even as they support the “brilliance” and “heart” of the person trying to make it theirs.
.... I have the info for two Black women who are in desperate need of funds: one is leaving an abusive relationship and the other stood up for her in public and refused to let her return to her abuser.
Can someone help me find folks to throw $300K their way???