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\nJoint Center Staff Assistant Samone Ijoma attended the Movement for Black Lives National Convening at Cleveland State University from July 24 to 26. That weekend, she joined nearly 2,000 people who gathered in support of the Black Lives Matter Movement. Supporters traveled from as far as the United Kingdom to stand in solidarity with the families of Mike Brown, Tamir Rice, Rekia Boyd, and many more who have been victims of state-sanctioned and vigilante violence.\u00a0 Below Samone has given her major insights from her time in Cleveland.<\/em><\/p>\n

Movement for Black Lives National Convening<\/strong>
\nBy: Samone Ijoma, Joint Center Executive Assistant<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cAll Black Lives Matter!\u201d<\/strong>
\nTrans Black Lives, Queer Black Lives, Female Black Lives, Formerly Incarcerated and Incarcerated Black Lives: All Black Lives Matter.
\nDuring the opening ceremony on July 24, the parents of Emmitt Till, Eric Garner, Tamir Rice, Rekia Boyd, Jordan Davis, Michael Brown, Tanisha Anderson, and countless other victims of police brutality and vigilante violence told stories of what their children loved and did for fun.\u00a0 The session was an effort to humanize the victims, and counter societal trends that criminalize and dehumanize Black people.<\/p>\n

The overarching principle that guided the Movement for Black Lives National Convening\u2014All Black Lives Matter–challenged the movement itself and our communities to be intentionally inclusive in this fight for an acknowledgement of the humanity of\u00a0all\u00a0 <\/em>Black bodies. At the opening ceremony, for example, there seemed to be no queer Black lives and trans Black lives represented on the screen or in the sharing of family memories, despite the fact that trans Black women–like India Clarke and Islan Nettles–are also being violently murdered at an alarming rate.\u00a0\u00a0 The next day, Black trans men and women who felt their stories had been erased from the conversation spoke candidly about their experiences and the lives of trans Black women and men who have been murdered and their stories ignored by mainstream media.\u00a0 By that Sunday, I, among other audience members, found myself chanting \u201cAll Black Lives Matter!\u201d and \u201cTrans Black Lives Matter!\u201d as we attempted to practice the inclusion of B<\/p>\n

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lack lives that the movement calls for.<\/p>\n

[Re] Education of the Negro<\/strong>
\nCommunity organizers are often criticized as lacking direction or the ability to produce real tangible results such as policy or legislation, and the first session I attended, \u201c[Re]education of the Negro: Political Organizing in Communities of Color,\u201d focused on developing political strategy of community organizers and groups.\u00a0 Facilitated by David Turner of UC Berkley and Black Lives Matter, LA, participants chose issues facing their own communities that they believed had not been adequately addressed through policy or by state and local elected officials, such as police sanctioned violence, mass incarceration, discrimination in housing, and the racialization of motherhood and reproductive rights.<\/p>\n

Check Your Bias<\/strong>
\nOn Saturday, July 25, I attended a workshop entitled \u201cCheck Your Bias: End American Denial of Racism\u201d with Erika Maye of Active Voices. According to Maye, 48% of millennials believe discrimination against whites has become as big a problem today as discrimination against Blacks. Additionally, 48% of college-aged people believe the government has paid too much attention to the problems of people of color over the last few decades. Furthermore, 53% of white people believe race doesn\u2019t affect police use of deadly force, and 45% of white people say police killings are isolated incidents and not part of a boarder problem. The statistics that Maye provided were used as a framework for our discussion of racial bias among white Americans and internalized racism amongst people of color.\u00a0 Session attendees discussed the ways in which racism and implicit biases had influenced their own lives, and whether the people representing communities of color (including policy makers) should be charged with \u201cchecking their bias.\u201d<\/p>\n

Attending the Movement for Black Lives National Convening was moving and transformative.\u00a0 The experience left me and other attendees feeling rejuvenated and positive about the future of the Black Lives Matter Movement and the fight for Black humanity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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