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1/7: One of the slightly messy aspects of this conversation is the need to separate the ideology of Black lives mattering from the movement Black Lives Matter. Everyone tweeting #BLM is not a part of the movement, or stand for what it stands for politically. In fact I would say
2/7: most aren’t from my observation. So when we say BLM are asking for xyz, we need to find a way of understanding who and what people are talking about. I think this will become increasingly tricky as we move forward because language and terminology matters. The fact that
3/7: a statue was pulled down at protest is tricky, as it’s then reported as BLM are doing this, I don’t believe that to be true. For a start it was mainly white people who took it down. There was a long-standing row over this statue. I haven’t seen them come forward.
4/7: Any group of people could now ask for anything and if they’re Black it could be categorised as BLM. In the same stream of though every left leaning person is not a part of the Labour Party. Different people organised different marches on different days, all under BLM,
5/7: but the ideology for some and the movement for others. For many people they are in tune with the idea of being anti-racist and saying Black lives matter is a way of standing together on this specific issue. I’m a solutions person, but, I also speak for myself.
6/7: I’m not 100% sure what the solution is. If we remove the word black and just say anti-racism that doesn’t quite hit the mark. But if we keep calling it all BLM it will be hard for people to separate the two things.
7/7: If we want to see progress we have to at least start on the same page of terminology. By putting everything together it really blurs differing aims and objectives. In MY opinion! #my2p
