Black Lives Matter Doesn’t Love Kamala Back – IOTW Report

Black Lives Matter Doesn’t Love Kamala Back

WFB: Kamala Harris Praises ‘Incredible’ Black Lives Matter But Feeling Isn’t Mutual.

Harris: ‘I could not have done anything I did without that level of organized, smart activism on the outside’.

Sen. Kamala Harris (D., Calif.) praised Black Lives Matter activists for their  “incredible” and “smart” activism during her Wednesday night Comedy Central interview, saying their demonstrations enabled some of the accomplishments she made on criminal justice reform.

“One of the benefits that I believe the system received and that helped me do the work that I was able to accomplish was because of the incredible activism and smart activism of folks, like the folks who were Black Lives Matter,” Harris told Trevor Noah. “The folks who were involved on the outside who were saying and demanding that the system would change, demanding and marching and advocating.”

“That activism allowed me to then be able to do some of the work that I accomplished. I could not have done anything I did without that level of organized, smart activism on the outside,” Harris said.

The admiration for that “activism on the outside” from Harris doesn’t go both ways, as many prominent activists in the black community have expressed doubt about her presidential campaign because of her actions as a California prosecutor.

Johnetta Elzie, one of the lead organizers of the 2014 protests in Ferguson, Missouri, responded to Harris’s presidential launch by telling Slate she was “not excited” about her run and criticizing her reluctance to back body-camera legislation in California.  more here

 

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