How’s this for the head-spinning “logic” of the left: A local chapter of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement was just told they can’t ban whites from attending a meeting in a public library … then the racists discriminating against white people are the very ones to cry racism?
No, this is not a made-up story to try to make BLM activists look bad — their blatant hypocrisy is on full display without any outside help.
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The Black Lives Matter movement was built on charges of racism that police officers deliberately target blacks, then expanded to accuse colleges and universities of discriminating against black students in campus academic and social life. Now, it’s striking out at the Nashville, Tennessee, public library system for allegedly enforcing rules perpetuating “white supremacy” by refusing to allow meetings to be held on library property that don’t let white people in — because of their skin color.
According to The Tennessean, a Black Lives Matter chapter in the Tennessee capital has been conducting meetings in the city’s North Branch Library that were deliberately closed to whites.
As The Tennessean reported:
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According to Joshua Crutchfield, an organizer of the Nashville chapter of Black Lives Matter, the group has a rule: Only black people as well as non-black people of color are allowed to attend the gatherings. That means white people are excluded from attending.
The paper says that library officials were unaware of the blatant discrimination being practiced at the BBLM meetings until a patron complained about it. When the library informed Black Lives Matter organizers the meetings would have to be open to all races, the group decided to move its meetings to somewhere white people could be banned.
Here’s how the group advertised its new location:
Let’s recap that. BLM is claiming a public library’s anti-discrimination policy is actually “white supremacy in the local government.” Exactly how is that possible? It’s not.
As library spokeswoman Emily Waltenbaugh told The Tennessean, “We didn’t cancel anyone’s meeting. We’re taxpayer funded. We have to be open to anyone anytime.”
In a statement posted on Facebook, the BLM group tried to claim otherwise, and noted the timing of the dispute.
“Ironically, all cancelled dates were in February during Black History Month,” it said.
The “ironically” part of the BLM complaint is rich, indeed — it’s a black organization that’s openly and unapologetically demanding to use public space in meetings that white people are kept out of. Ironically, it’s occurring almost exactly 56 years after the history-making Nashville sit-ins that prompted desegregation across the South.
In February 1960, college students in Music City USA began sit-ins at various restaurants and stores to desegregate lunch counters.
Two months later, Mayor Ben West said to a crowd of more than 2,500 protesters, “I appeal to all citizens to end discrimination, to have no bigotry, no bias, no discrimination.”
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Source: tpnn.com