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I don't agree with much the man has to say but I agree with this. 


 

<div>The young black activists have been “really effective in bringing attention to problems” of the criminal justice system and police violence, Obama said.
 
But he cautioned that the group’s leaders had been too dismissive of elected officials. “Once you’ve highlighted an issue and brought it to people’s attention … then you can't just keep on yelling at them. And you can't refuse to meet because that might compromise the purity of your position,” Obama said.
 
I think this woman is about stirring the pot and not affecting any real change. What other reason would you have to decline an invitation to the WH? 

 
Obama met with civil rights activists, including representatives of the Black Lives Matter movement, in February at the White House to discuss criminal justice reform. Aislinn Pulley, one of the co-founders of the group’s Chicago chapter, declined the invitation. “I could not, with any integrity, participate in such a sham that would only serve to legitimize the false narrative that the government is working to end police brutality and the institutional racism that fuels it,” Pulley wrote in an essay for Truthout, an online news organization.
 

<div>Obama didn’t mention Pulley on Saturday, but he criticized some Black Lives Matter activists who, he said, were unwilling to negotiate with elected leaders.
 
I also agree with this. And not just for BLM folks but for anyone trying to affect change. All the yelling, finger pointing, anger, interrupting people while they're shopping or dining at a restaurant, etc., isn't going to do anything other than turn people off from what you're trying to bring to their attention. 

 
“The value of social movements and activism is to get you at the table, get you in the room, and then to start trying to figure out how is this problem going to be solved,” Obama said. “You, then, have a responsibility to prepare an agenda that is achievable, that can institutionalize the changes you seek.”
 
It's too bad it falls on deaf ears of people like the woman referenced in the article. And people with attitudes like that will continue to be part of the problem and not part of the solution. 

 
Maybe he's talking out of his butt since he's not even making this speech in America, but it is being said so....

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