{"id":1064423,"date":"2021-11-29T11:30:04","date_gmt":"2021-11-29T16:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1064423"},"modified":"2021-11-29T11:30:10","modified_gmt":"2021-11-29T16:30:10","slug":"black-lives-matter-launches-christmas-campaign-against-white-supremacist-capitalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/black-lives-matter-launches-christmas-campaign-against-white-supremacist-capitalism\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Lives Matter Launches Christmas Campaign Against \u2018White-Supremacist Capitalism\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fblack-lives-matter-launches-christmas-campaign-against-white-supremacist-capitalism%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1064423&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Over the Thanksgiving holiday, Black Lives Matter (BLM) accused Americans of \u201ceating dry turkey and overcooked stuffing on stolen land\u201d and bashed Christmas, linking to a story that says the holiday promotes \u201cwhite-supremacist-capitalism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The group\u2019s official Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/blacklivesmatter.com\/about\/\">account<\/a> \u2014 where they call themselves a \u201ccollective of liberators\u201d \u2014 posted a message on Thanksgiving saying, \u201cYOU ARE ON STOLEN LAND,\u201d with a subhead of \u201cColonization never ended, it just became normalized.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">You are eating dry turkey and overcooked stuffing on stolen land. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1Ob1RgBkvp\">pic.twitter.com\/1Ob1RgBkvp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Black Lives Matter (@Blklivesmatter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Blklivesmatter\/status\/1463982548707524613?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 25, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The group also posted a message saying: \u201cThis #Thanksgiving we send our deepest love to families whose loved ones were stolen by state-sanctioned violence and white-supremacy. May we offer a special prayer for those who will forever have an #EmptySeatAtTheTable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cColonization never ended,\u201d another tweet from the group said. \u201cIt just became normalized. This nation was built on the stolen land of Indigenous people and the stolen labor and lives of our African Ancestors.\u201d The tweet directed users to a website showing where native tribes once lived across the world.<\/p>\n<p>And the day after Thanksgiving, BLM posted what it called a \u201cnew profile pic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"und\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NewProfilePic?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#NewProfilePic<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/k7nPs3PKgB\">pic.twitter.com\/k7nPs3PKgB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Black Lives Matter (@Blklivesmatter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Blklivesmatter\/status\/1464239560385196033?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 26, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Then on Saturday,&nbsp;BLM posted: \u201cFor 7 years #BlackLivesMatter has been drawing connections between white-supremacist-capitalism &amp; police violence with our #BlackXmas campaign.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The tweet included a link to an <a href=\"https:\/\/lasentinel.net\/blackxmas-visioning-beyond-the-weight-of-the-moment.html\">article<\/a> in the Los Angeles Sentinel about \u201cBlack Xmas\u201d by Dr. Melina Abdullah, a professor of pan-African studies at California State University in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>In the piece, Abdullah wrote: \u201cNow is when we must renew our commitment to struggle \u2014 not simply against white-supremacist-capitalism, but towards imagining and building new visions for the world and for Black people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She wrote:<\/p>\n<p><em>For the last seven years, Black Lives Matter has been challenging people to \u201cdream of a Black Xmas,\u201d to intentionally use our resources to: #BuildBlack (invest in Black-led, Black-serving organizations), #BuyBlack (spend exclusively with Black-owned businesses from Black Friday through New Year), and #BankBlack (move our money from white corporate banks to Black-owned ones). In 2020, #BlackXmas expanded to a nationwide campaign, with a website,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/blackxmas.org\/\">blackxmas.org<\/a>, that provides a listing of organizations to support and businesses to shop. #BlackXmas is about not simply struggling against the systems that enable Rittenhouse,&nbsp;McMichaels, Schwartzman, Walmart, racist policing, violence, and exploitation, but fighting on our terms. #BlackXmas challenges us to shake off the chains of consumerism and step fully into our own collective power, to build new traditions, and run an offense as well as a defense. #BlackXmas is about being self-determined and felling existing structures by building new, and more viable, beneficial ones\u2026in the names of our mightiest and most righteous warrior Ancestors, in the names of those stolen by police violence, in honor of our community, and as a commitment to the generations to come.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The BLM posts came as the liberal media claimed Thanksgiving represents genocide for some people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat is Thanksgiving to Indigenous people? \u2018A day of mourning,&#8217;\u201d a USA Today <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/nation\/2021\/11\/23\/how-native-americans-spend-thanksgiving\/8628270002\/\">headline<\/a> on Tuesday said. \u201cFor many, rather than a celebration of peace and shared prosperity between Native Americans and Pilgrims, Thanksgiving represents the dark shadow of genocide and the resilience of Native people,\u201d the piece said.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the Thanksgiving holiday, Black Lives Matter (BLM) accused Americans of \u201ceating dry turkey and overcooked stuffing on stolen land\u201d and bashed Christmas, linking to a story that says the holiday promotes \u201cwhite-supremacist-capitalism.\u201dThe group\u2019s official Twitter account \u2014 where they call themselves a \u201ccollective of liberators\u201d \u2014 posted a message on Thanksgiving saying, \u201cYOU ARE ON STOLEN LAND,\u201d with a subhead of \u201cColonization never ended, it just became normalized.\u201dYou are eating dry turkey and overcooked stuffing on stolen land. pic.twitter.com\/1Ob1RgBkvp\u2014 Black Lives Matter (@Blklivesmatter) November 25, 2021The group also posted a message saying: \u201cThis #Thanksgiving we send our deepest love to families whose loved ones were stolen by state-sanctioned violence and white-supremacy. May we offer a special prayer for those who will forever have an #EmptySeatAtTheTable.\u201d\u201cColonization never ended,\u201d another tweet from the group said. \u201cIt just became normalized. This nation was built on the stolen land of Indigenous people and the stolen labor and lives of our African Ancestors.\u201d The tweet directed users to a website showing where native tribes once lived across the world.And the day after Thanksgiving, BLM posted what it called a \u201cnew profile pic.\u201d#NewProfilePic pic.twitter.com\/k7nPs3PKgB\u2014 Black Lives Matter (@Blklivesmatter) November 26, 2021Then on Saturday,\u00a0BLM posted: \u201cFor 7 years #BlackLivesMatter has been drawing connections between white-supremacist-capitalism &#038; police violence with our #BlackXmas campaign.\u201dThe tweet included a link to an article in the Los Angeles Sentinel about \u201cBlack Xmas\u201d by Dr. Melina Abdullah, a professor of pan-African studies at California State University in Los Angeles.In the piece, Abdullah wrote: \u201cNow is when we must renew our commitment to struggle \u2014 not simply against white-supremacist-capitalism, but towards imagining and building new visions for the world and for Black people.\u201dShe wrote:For the last seven years, Black Lives Matter has been challenging people to \u201cdream of a Black Xmas,\u201d to intentionally use our resources to: #BuildBlack (invest in Black-led, Black-serving organizations), #BuyBlack (spend exclusively with Black-owned businesses from Black Friday through New Year), and #BankBlack (move our money from white corporate banks to Black-owned ones). In 2020, #BlackXmas expanded to a nationwide campaign, with a website,\u00a0blackxmas.org, that provides a listing of organizations to support and businesses to shop. #BlackXmas is about not simply struggling against the systems that enable Rittenhouse,\u00a0McMichaels, Schwartzman, Walmart, racist policing, violence, and exploitation, but fighting on our terms. #BlackXmas challenges us to shake off the chains of consumerism and step fully into our own collective power, to build new traditions, and run an offense as well as a defense. #BlackXmas is about being self-determined and felling existing structures by building new, and more viable, beneficial ones\u2026in the names of our mightiest and most righteous warrior Ancestors, in the names of those stolen by police violence, in honor of our community, and as a commitment to the generations to come.The BLM posts came as the liberal media claimed Thanksgiving represents genocide for some people.\u201cWhat is Thanksgiving to Indigenous people? \u2018A day of mourning,&#8217;\u201d a USA Today headline on Tuesday said. \u201cFor many, rather than a celebration of peace and shared prosperity between Native Americans and Pilgrims, Thanksgiving represents the dark shadow of genocide and the resilience of Native people,\u201d the piece said.The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. 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