Black Lives Matter and the Presidential Primaries

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In 1857 during a speech captioned "West India Emancipation" the abolitionist leader Frederick Douglass said:

"If there is no struggle there is no progress. ...This struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, and it ma be both moral and physical, but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.

The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress."

The young leaders of the Black Lives Matter Movement are conducting their campaign to awaken America's conscience to the apparent repetitive police shootings of black men in the spirit of the legacy of Frederick Douglass and other 20th Century Civil Rights leaders after him. Martin Luther King, Jr. is perhaps the most pre-eminent.

Since the killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, MO a year ago, more than 30 men and a few women have died as a result of police shootings or while in the custody of police. The Black Lives Matter Movement is asking the elemental question: What do the candidates running to become President of the United States, whether Republican, Democrat, Socialist or Independent, propose to do to end the killing of black men by police across our country?

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