Los Angeles, CA – November 5, 2024 – Black Lives Matter Grassroots unequivocally rebukes
the widespread news coverage of a member of our leadership is endorsing the
re-election of former U.S. President Donald Trump. First, Black Lives Matter Grassroots has a strict
and long standing policy that prohibits any endorsements of political candidates. This policy
applies to all thirty-nine chartered chapters as well as the national organization.
Furthermore, Black Lives Matter Grassroots does NOT have a Rhode Island chapter, nor have we ever heard of this person, who some media outlets are presenting as a leader within our organization.
It begs the question – would reputable news organizations legitimize a branch or purported
leader of any other organization without fact checking that information? Why is it acceptable to characterize random attention seekers, activists or system-involved individuals as members of Black Lives Matter without evidence that they are?
No Chapter, leader or member of Black Lives Matter Grassroots is endorsing Donald
Trump in the 2024 election.
The mission of Black Lives Matter Grassroots (BLMGR) is to support, sustain, and uplift the
necessary agitations, mobilizations, community organizing, and initiatives of Black Lives Matter
chapters to fulfill our sacred duty to advance Black liberation. #BlackLivesMatter was birthed to
end state-sanctioned violence against Black people. Black Lives Matter Grassroots is a
collective of 33 chartered chapters globally working on the ground since 2013.
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We also know that the San Diego killers did not act in isolation, but in the context of a city, county, and country that has long criminalized people of color through so-called gang documentation and enhancements, white nativism, ICE raids, police violence, and racism and xenophobia writ large.
Charleston, SC – Black Lives Matter Grassroots stands in full solidarity with the Charleston Reparations Taskforce and the Gullah Geechee community in demanding the immediate transfer of over 7,000 acres of plantation land, including Middleton Place, Boone Hall, and Magnolia Plantation, to permanent Gullah Geechee stewardship.
We are grateful for the courage, vision, sacrifice, and power of Black Lives Matter Grassroots Twin Cities lead Chauntyll Allen, courageous comrade Nekima Levy Armstrong, and other principled organizers for their righteous resistance to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) federal invasion and fascist repression in Minneapolis/St. Paul. Rather than submitting to an unparalleled evil that murders mothers in their own vehicles, explodes chemical weapons upon infants, kidnaps and imprisons preschoolers, brutalizes children, separates families, and terrorizes communities, grassroots organizers in the Twin Cities are putting their own bodies, freedom and livelihood on the line to secure community.
