{"id":4448,"date":"2021-02-15T12:45:06","date_gmt":"2021-02-15T12:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=4448"},"modified":"2021-02-15T12:45:06","modified_gmt":"2021-02-15T12:45:06","slug":"black-lives-matter-power-grab-sets-off-internal-revolt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=4448","title":{"rendered":"Black Lives Matter power grab sets off internal revolt"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> &#8220;The operations of Black Lives Matter have always been opaque, with thousands of members and dozens of affiliates. Two of its three co-founders are no longer affiliated with the movement \u2014 even as they continue to represent Black Lives Matter on TV. Local Black Lives Matter activists say national leaders cut them off from funding and decision-making, leaving them broke and taking the movement in a direction with which they fundamentally disagree. And as the\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2020\/11\/17\/black-lives-matters-push-power-436916\" target=\"_blank\">Black Lives Matter movement grows in influence<\/a>, with millions in donations and celebrity endorsements, local organizers argue they\u2019re the ones in the streets pushing for change \u2014 and they\u2019re not getting their due.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2020\/12\/10\/black-lives-matter-organization-biden-444097\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2020\/12\/10\/black-lives-matter-organization-biden-444097<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The operations of Black Lives Matter have always been opaque, with thousands of members and dozens of affiliates. Two of its three co-founders are no longer affiliated with the movement \u2014 even as they continue to represent Black Lives Matter on TV. Local Black Lives Matter activists say national leaders cut them off from funding and decision-making, leaving them broke and taking the movement in a direction with which they fundamentally disagree. And as the Black Lives Matter movement grows in influence, with millions in donations and celebrity endorsements, local organizers argue they\u2019re the ones in the streets pushing for change \u2014 and they\u2019re not getting their due.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[869],"class_list":["post-4448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-black-lives-matter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4448"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4449,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4448\/revisions\/4449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}