Leaders of the Marxist Black Lives Matter movement lashed out at Joe Biden after the Democrat presidential hopeful met with several civil rights leaders without inviting anyone from BLM.
Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, and Rep. Cedric Richmond met with several civil rights groups yesterday.@blklivesmatter—as the largest social and justice movement in history—was not invited.
https://t.co/RYdoXmvSpw via @politico— Black Lives Matter (@Blklivesmatter) December 9, 2020
BLM organizers said they reached out to Biden immediately after the media declared him the winner of the 2020 presidential election, but have not heard back from either him or his running mate, Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif.
In the letter BLM sent to Biden last month, the organization claimed credit for rallying black voters behind Biden.
“Without the resounding support of black people, we would be saddled with a very different electoral outcome. In short, black people own the election,” the letter states. “Alongside black-led organizations around the nation, Black Lives Matter invested heavily in this election. ‘Vote and Organize’ became our motto, and our electoral justice efforts reached more than 60 million voters. We want something for our vote.”
The organization insisted it deserves a “seat at the table,” and shared a petition calling for Biden and Harris to meet with the group.
We deserve a seat at the table. The 63,747 people who signed our petition want us there too.
Sign our petition below.https://t.co/D07evOc6Ei
— Black Lives Matter (@Blklivesmatter) December 9, 2020
“Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, we are watching, we are waiting, and we are tired of waiting,” the group concluded.
During his meeting with civil rights leaders, Biden slammed the ‘Defund the Police’ movement, which BLM endorsed, as the reason Democrats lost so badly down-ballot.
But during a recent interview, BLM co-founder Alicia Garza defended ‘Defund the Police’ as an important part of police reform.
“At the end of the day, we need to build a structure that holds people accountable when they commit harm in our communities, and that includes police. We also have to build structures to address the needs that exist. And that requires moving money. We just need to have a real conversation that is not being politicized,” she said.
