A St. Louis activist and Democratic congressional candidate is organizing a Black Lives Matter demonstration specifically for “white allies.”
Cori Bush, who is black, is organizing Thursday night’s “White Allies Only” rally in order for white people to demonstrate their solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement, the AP reported.
The AP report didn’t mention that Bush is running for Congress in Missouri’s 1st District in 2018. Bush is challenging incumbent Rep. Lacy Clay in the Democratic primary.
Bush has been advertising the rally on Twitter and Facebook.
One advertisement for the event reads: “Show our solidarity with the economic impact of protests” and includes the hashtag “#EndWhiteSilence.”
— Cori Bush (@CoriBush) September 21, 2017
Bush’s campaign has the backing of Brand New Congress, a progressive political organization started by former Bernie Sanders campaign staffers following the Vermont senator’s 2016 presidential campaign.
She’s also backed by another progressive organization, Justice Democrats, that wants to push the Democratic Party further to the left-wing.
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Bush, a longtime racial activist in St. Louis, supported Sanders’ campaign and spoke at a Sanders rally in March 2016.
The “White Allies Only” is the latest demonstration that Bush has organized following the acquittal of a white police officer, Jason Stockley, for the 2011 shooting of a black man, Anthony Lamar Smith.