Black Lives Matters Needs a Super Pac

[Skwmom]

" But electing brand new city councils and mayors could make these changes happen rather quickly. This is why Black Lives Matter needs a Super Pac."

" Super Pacs cannot work with candidates directly, but this is a minor barrier to their overall effectiveness. However, Super Pacs can also be used to advance more liberal causes which benefit everyone in society."

" But a Black Lives Matter Super Pac could change this by electing a new generation of reformers to city councils across America. In small cities and towns with high poverty rates, electing more low-income people of color to local government would go a long way to bringing government closer to the needs of the citizens."

"There are certainly plenty of successful and altruistic people who could fund a Black Lives Matter Super Pac."

Imagine a Black Lives Matter Super Pac creating a Facebook page to market a new voter registration drive. How long would it take to sign up 10,000 new voters? Not long. And if these new voters turned out on Election Day, the Black Lives Matter reformers could sweep into local government.

"Before any of this can happen, the activist base of Black Lives Matter must present a clear list of policy preferences and a plan for electing credible candidates to local government. They need to research which cities (besides Ferguson) would present a reasonable opportunity for victory at a reasonable cost. (Some of our largest cities are probably too expensive for a major political campaign.) And finally, they need to recruit quality candidates to run for city council and mayor." [Surely, these billion dollar, purely altruistic people could come up with the money to help African Americans that live in inner cities.]

Local government has the most impact on our lives. And unfortunately, local government often caters to local businesses and local unions at the expense of average citizens. A Black Lives Matter Super Pac dedicated to electing reformers to local government would be good for America. If the Black Lives Matter reformers came to power and succeeded in bringing fairness to local policing and criminal justice systems, African-Americans would be living in a better America than they do today. And if the Black Lives Matter reformers succeeded at reducing poverty by expanding opportunity at the local level, racial inequality in America would be greatly reduced. And that would benefit us all.

An underlying agenda or pure altruism?

http://alleninsight.com/2015/04/05/black-lives-matter-needs-a-super-pac/

[99th_Monkey]

1. I totally agree. Awesome idea. It would also be awesome if BLM

had their very own Candidates Forum, nationally televised, so candidates
could go head-to-head addressing BLM's concerns and/or demands.

That would be so much more helpful than hi-jacking another groups forum, out of
the blue, to do so.

i would totally support such a forum and actually think it's super important that they
have a forum because I totally am incensed at how black people are being targeted
and murdered by police with no accountability whatsoever.

[Skwmom]

2. Not when a group has already shown its bias towards one canidate.

What a set up that would be.

[99th_Monkey]

3. I don't think BLM really has a bias towards Hillary

They were hella angry, had to vent it at someone. Only Bernie and O'Malley
showed up, while Hillary was a no-show at NetRoots. BLM has MAJOR issues
(or at least should) with O'Malley, based on his questionable performance under
fire while Mayor of Baltimore. Check this out.

Democratic presidential hopeful Martin O’Malley’s credibility is coming under attack from an unexpected source, a long-time friend and African-American civil rights advocate in the Baltimore Police Department.

Sgt. Louis H. Hopson, who has worked at the Baltimore Police Department for 35 years and is a board member of the Vanguard Justice Society, an influential association of Baltimore African-American police officers, charges that O’Malley didn’t know what to do about race relations when he was the city’s mayor from 1999 to 2007. O’Malley was then elected Maryland governor twice. Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2015/06/14/baltimore-cop-activist-slams-omalleys-civil-rights-record/#ixzz3gXhRb3lz

Hilary is inextricably bound to Bill's 3rd-Way Welfare reform disaster for poor people:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/07/11/1401252/-Black-Folks-No-on-Bernie-Really

Sanders on the other hand has a stellar civil rights record dating back to the freaking 60s civil rt.s movement.
he's rated 93% by the ACLU, indicating a pro-civil rights voting record, rated 97% by the NAACP, indicating a pro-affirmative-action stance, and 100% by the HRC, indicating a pro-gay-rights stance...:
http://www.ontheissues.org/Domestic/Bernie_Sanders_Civil_Rights.htm

The only reason it's starting to look like BLM "hates Bernie" is because the NetRoots dustup is being massively exploited by Hillary's supporters to throw gasoline on the brushfire, baiting Sanders supporters into pissing matches, etc. precisely BECAUSE Bernie is her only real threat at this point in the Primaries. Plain & simple.

[artislife]

4. I am not sure

I joined Washprg when I was young and shiny...in 90s and after 4 days of being let off in the whitest suburbs getting doors slammed in my face, I was still hoping it was worth it because our cause was affordable childcare. One guy was chased by a group of neighbors and the sight of waddling, khaki short wearing, bald and gotee sporting middle age men with BBQ forks chasing a young 20 year old is branded in my mind. I thought it looked funnnnny. It was the mini pitchforks that cracked me up. But I wasn't he one being chased.

The fourth day we got to meet with the higher ups, I was about to be fired anyway because I couldn't raise enough money so I knew I could carry this guys message in my heart and try to make it on the team. That is when I found out we were raising money for a PAC. I asked why are we using PACs, aren't they part of the problem in government. He said we needed to fight fire with fire.

The last night of door to door, I got discouraged. I sat on a curb next to a nicely manicured lawn and said to my partner, that this felt so wrong that I might as well work for the republicans.

Well, I lost the job but I never did vote for the republicans.

Why this story? Because I don't think they want to join the establishment doing it the establishment way. They want to break this system to create a new and better one.