Statement Regarding the Ongoing Trial of Jussie Smollett
December 7, 2021 The below is a statement from Dr. Melina Abdullah, Director of BLM Grassroots and Co-Founder of BLM Los Angeles, regarding the ongoing trial of Jussie Smollett:
As abolitionists, we approach situations of injustice with love and align ourselves with our community. Because we got us. So let’s be clear: we love everybody in our community. It’s not about a trial or a verdict decided in a white supremacist charade [😂], it’s about how we treat our community when corrupt systems are working to devalue their lives. In an abolitionist society, this trial would not be taking place, and our communities would not have to fight and suffer to prove our worth. Instead, we find ourselves, once again, being forced to put our lives and our value in the hands of judges and juries operating in a system that is designed to oppress us, while continuing to face a corrupt and violent police department, which has proven time and again to have no respect for our lives.
In our commitment to abolition, we can never believe police, especially the Chicago Police Department (CPD) over Jussie Smollett, a Black man who has been courageously present, visible, and vocal in the struggle for Black freedom. While policing at-large is an irredeemable institution, CPD is notorious for its long and deep history of corruption, racism, and brutality. From the murders of Fred Hampton and Mark Clark, to the Burge tortures, to the murder of Laquan McDonald and subsequent cover-up, to the hundreds of others killed by Chicago police over the years and the thousands who survived abuse, Chicago police consistently demonstrate that they are among the worst of the worst. Police lie and Chicago police lie especially.
Black Lives Matter will continue to work towards the abolition of police and every unjust system. We will continue to love and protect one another, and wrap our arms around those who do the work to usher in Black freedom and, by extension, freedom for everyone else.
https://blacklivesmatter.com/statement-regarding-the-ongoing-trial-of-jussie-smollett/
That’d be Jussie “Tawana Brawley” Smollet. That BLM crowd really likes to make the dregs of society their little idols, don’t they? It’s not like there aren’t plenty of upstanding, wonderful, honorable black people to put up on their pedestals and admire, but they choose the antithesis of these good people. Just another indication that they’re just shitty little, hateful marxists once again using black people as their battering ram for their pathetic little agenda.
Yes, George Floyd, Jussie Smollet and the whole cast of criminal characters they choose to pretend to idolize just riles up the (sic) “virtue”-signaling half-wits - and makes decent people of all colors tune them out and not take them seriously.
I’m sure there are some bad law enforcement and some individuals (of all colors) who have been unjustly incarcerated, but until we clear out every last vestige of this marxist filth from our midsts, we aren’t going to be able to solve these issues. Ms Abdullah sounds like a stereotypical marxist idiot.