Pride Toronto is backing away from the promises made to Black Lives Matter Toronto during a protest

[King_David]

Pride Toronto is backing away from the promises made to Black Lives Matter Toronto during a protest that temporarily shut down the Pride Parade.

“My priority yesterday was to make the parade move,” Mathieu Chantelois, the executive director of Pride Toronto, told CP24 the following day on July 4, 2016. “Frankly, Black Lives Matter is not going to tell us that there are no more floats anymore in the parade.”

Instead, Chantelois said it is up to the community and the membership of Pride Toronto to determine whether or not the police should march in Pride.


http://www.dailyxtra.com/toronto/news-and-ideas/news/pride-toronto-backtracks-from-black-lives-matter-promises-196966

[X_Digger]

1. An agreement made under duress is meaningless. n/t

[KMOD]

2. ahem

Chantelois said that he was personally comfortable with an organized police presence, but understands why some community members wouldn’t be.

“So I think as a community, we have to come together and make some important decisions together,” he said.

http://www.dailyxtra.com/toronto/news-and-ideas/news/pride-toronto-backtracks-from-black-lives-matter-promises-196966

[King_David]

3. I think the blowback within the LGBTQ community was so massive,

that 'Pride Toronto is backing away from the promises made to Black Lives Matter Toronto during a protest that temporarily shut down the Pride Parade. '

Just read some hundreds of talkbacks on Gay newspapers.

[Behind the Aegis]

4. There will be lots of 'splainin' going on.

We have already been down this route recently. Just giving you a head's up.

[King_David]

7. LOL

[KMOD]

5. Most of the blowback

is from straight, white people.

Perhaps some white LGBT people are not comfortable.

But no progress will be made if we continue to placate the bigots.

The original civil rights movement faced a helluva lot more than this.

Buck up, doing what is right is always harder than doing wrong.

[King_David]

6. Not true,

Straight, white people do not read the Gay newspapers and nor do they participate in Gay forums and nor are they regular members there.

Where are you getting your info from?

In community policing in Toronto , it is essential to have police represent all the communities ( the chief is black) and the only way the LGBTQ community knows that Gays are represented in the force is the parade.

This will not change ,and pride Toronto just confirmed it , and I bet the LGBTQ community is 100% behind it.

[840high]

13. I would hope so.

[oberliner]

16. That is definitely a lie

Just out of curiosity, are you Black, LGBTQ, and/or from Toronto?

[XemaSab]

8. Fun fact: The chair of Pride Toronto is Latino and the co-chair is black

[KMOD]

9. shaking my head.

[King_David]

10. Where do you get your info from?

Are you part of our community?

[m-lekktor]

11. awww, what's wrong , sparky? buck up. nt

[oberliner]

17. Also, the Chief of Police of Toronto is Black

Mark Saunders.

[TipTok]

14. BLM is a sinking ship...

[Monk06]

15. If BLM targets GLBTQ peeps as a soft target for protest they are going to fail

If if BLM continue to insist tht Blackness is a priveledged group of suppressed minority they will be left behind by the vast majority of other suppressed groups who have just as much right to have a voice