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"On Tuesday, The Washington Post reported that Black Lives Matter started a political action committee.
This is, in a way, the genius of the Black Lives Matter movement, and what sets it apart from previous movements with worthy causes, like Occupy Wall Street: its pragmatism and political savvy.
This movement doesn’t try to overthrow faulty systems as much as seek systemic reform. It’s not a black nationalist organization as much as it is a civil rights and equal justice organization. Its path to the elimination of oppression is the healing of the system, not the hobbling of it.
Indeed, the movement’s policy platform, which it calls Campaign Zero, is a 10-point plan to make policing and the criminal justice system more fair to all citizens.
In a way, one could argue that Black Lives Matter still hopes against hope that we may yet establish a more perfect union by extending to all — or at least not depriving from some — equity in “general welfare” and the “blessings of liberty.”
...Claims that the group is somehow un-American are ridiculous. A thirst for equal treatment under the law is a most American ideal. And Black Lives Matter is entering a moment in which its political power is substantial enough to make America listen."
THE NEW YORK TIMES: A Movement Has Its Moment
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