Sorry if this was already posted.
A key member of Pride Toronto - Jacqie Lucas - has resigned from the organization in solidarity with BLM.
http://www.citynews.ca/2016/07/07/sh...-lives-matter/
I would encourage people to read Jacqie's statement of Facebook about why she resigned, and why she and others involved in Pride Toronto happily invited and supported BLM's actions. It might help understand the significance of BLM's activism and its convergence with the history and goals of Pride:
Quote:
When the parade stopped and BlackLivesMatter Toronto began their demonstration after the moment of silence I was prepared, because folks THIS IS BLACKLIVESMATTER! The agitators who make us think about loving each other and what that actually looks like and means, you know, the reason they were being honoured. I approached them with all the information that Pride believes in protest and they could continue we would go around. What I wasn't prepared for was a list of demands and for them to be met almost instantaneously by pride.
When the parade was over I bawled my eyes out. I thought about the work some of us put in at pride, the work BlackLivesMatter put in, the really ridiculous hate mail or facebook groups started and I was so ####ing Proud of what we achieved. We were building community and taking steps to repair the history we have contributed to being unwelcoming and harmful to those members who are not white and especially Black.
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https://www.facebook.com/jacqie.jagu...53902809127054