Rethinking Black Lives Matter's Decentralized Leadership Debacle: Ten Years Later
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“The BLM movement claimed to have no leaders, embracing the “horizontalism” of its Occupy predecessor. But all movements have leaders; someone or some group of individuals are deciding that this or that thing will or will not happen; someone decides how this or that resource is used or not used; someone decides whether this or that meeting will or will not happen. The issue is not whether there are leaders, it is whether those leaders are accountable to those they represent.”
Rethinking Black Lives Matter's Decentralized Leadership Debacle: Ten Years Later
Rethinking Black Lives Matter's Decentralized…
Rethinking Black Lives Matter's Decentralized Leadership Debacle: Ten Years Later
“The BLM movement claimed to have no leaders, embracing the “horizontalism” of its Occupy predecessor. But all movements have leaders; someone or some group of individuals are deciding that this or that thing will or will not happen; someone decides how this or that resource is used or not used; someone decides whether this or that meeting will or will not happen. The issue is not whether there are leaders, it is whether those leaders are accountable to those they represent.”