Columnist Star Parker says she hopes the Black Lives Matter organization “get crushed.”
Parker and her organization UrbanCURE held a peaceful “Emancipation Celebration” at the Freedmen’s Memorial in DC’s Lincoln Park Tuesday afternoon to educate people on the history of the statue.
When questioned about the BLM movement, she didn’t hold back.
“I hope that they get crushed,” Parker said. “I think that the Black Lives Matter movement that is now shaking down corporations all across the world should be absolutely ashamed of themselves to piggy back the heritage of African-Americans in this country who have moved themselves to the place where, based on their ancestry, they were only dreaming of being.
The 39 percent of African-Americans that live in the suburbs. They live very integrated lives. They get home, go to church on Sunday morning. The 20 percent that have told pollsters that they are conservatives.”
That is not who Black Lives Matters represents. And it is embarrassing that they're prancing through this country the way they are as domestic terrorists, shaking down corporations and forcing businesses to give them the types of money they're given - so that we can just see more of the same in our most distressed zip codes.”
On the importance of maintaining the Freedman’s Memorial, Parker said:
“Before BLM demands that white folk learn black history, perhaps black folk like DC Mayor Bowser and congressional Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton need to learn more black history. Archer Alexander is not kneeling; as a track star prepared to run a dash, the kinetic motion in this figure shows him just emancipated to stand and run his race as a free man.”
Photo: UrbanCURE website.
This Freedmen’s Statue should not only remain standing in Lincoln Park, but this is the sacred location where President Trump should place the new Memorial Park he envisions to honor great American heroes who worked tirelessly to unify the races – to be named Unity Park.”
Parker and UrbanCURE are asking people to sign a petition to protect the Emancipation Memorial.