Friday, March 29, 2024

Activist Carl Dix: Obama ‘Not Trying to Further’ Black Lives Movement (WATCH)

Carl Dix
Image via Revolution Newspaper-online

*Carl Dix is a co-initiator of the Stop Mass Incarceration Network and a representative of the Revolutionary Communist Party. He’s also a Black Lives Matter organizer and a central voice in the campaign to end NYPD’s racially motivated “Stop and Frisk” program.

Back in April, Carl posted an empowering statement addressing police brutality and racial injustice during the uprising in Baltimore.

“The authorities and the media grunt about “violence.” They get outraged about broken windows, but not the broken neck of Freddie Gray. They get mad about the destruction of property, but not the destruction of Black and Brown children. Violence? What about the unending violence carried out against the masses of Black and Latino people all over America by the police?….The violence in which police behave like occupying armies in the ghettos and barrios—and the occupying armies of the U.S. behave like police all over the world?”

Dix spoke with The Blaze during a demonstration in New York City last week, where he took aim at President Barack Obama, saying:

“I’m not sure I’d waste my breath, because he’s not trying to further my cause,” Carl Dix said when asked about how he’d like to see the president help his movement. Check out his interview in the clip below.

Relatives of loved ones killed by law enforcement are speaking out during Dix’s national Rise Up October tour. Initiated by Dix and professor Cornel West, the tour is expected to visit several cities, culminating with a large march in New York City on October 24, Progress Illinois reports.

“We’re going to be involving thousands upon thousands of people, manifesting in New York City, delivering a message to the country, and to the whole world, that this green light to cops who brutalize and murder is unacceptable,” Dix said of the upcoming October demonstration. “It must be stopped, and we’re going to be acting to stop it.”

Dix said the “Rise Up” tour against police violence is calling on Americans to choose a side when it comes to the issue of police brutality.

“Which side are you on,” he asked. “There is no middle ground to stand on when dealing with this issue. You’re either on the side of acting to stop it … or you’re on the side that it’s OK for this to go down.”

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