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Former Black Panther Says BLM Is A Group Of Complainers

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Amber Randall Civil Rights Reporter
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The Black Lives Matter movement is a group of young people “complaining and protesting,” according to a former Black Panther member.

Elaine Brown, a former chairwoman of the Black Panther Party, said that there was no comparison between the two in an interview with Spiked.

According to Brown, BLM, unlike the Black Panther Party, is too busy protesting to come together with an organized agenda.

“The next wave of young people running out here, who are complaining and protesting about the murders of young black men and women by the police all over the country, they will protest but they will not rise up in an organised fashion, with an agenda, to create revolutionary change…,” Brown stated.

Brown also accused the movement’s main slogans, “Hands up, don’t shoot!” and “stop killing us,” of being too submissive.

“This to me is a plantation mentality,” Brown said. “It smacks of ‘master, if you would just treat me right,’ And it has nothing to do with self-determination, empowerment and a sense of justice, or anything else.”

Brown is not the first Black Panther member to criticize Black Lives Matter. Mason Weaver, another former member, attacked Black Lives Matter’s constant references to “white privilege.”

“If you believe in “White Privilege” you are weak and non-competitive. I have never met a white person who was superior to me. I have met some that are more experienced, more successful, or more talented, but I have never met a superior white person in my life,” Weaver wrote in July. “Black Lives Matter should compete. You will lose some and win some but you will be in charge.”

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