Democratic officials and presidential candidates are running into a hostile reception as they try to reach out to Black Lives Matter, a movement that has become a political minefield for the party.
On the other side of the aisle, Republicans have largely shunned the group. South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley said this week that “black lives do matter,” but they’ve been “disgracefully jeopardized by the movement that has laid waste to Ferguson and Baltimore.”
By contrast, the Democratic National Committee passed a resolution last Friday implicitly endorsing the cause.
“Therefore it be resolved that the DNC joins with Americans across the country in affirming ‘Black lives matter’ and the ‘say her name’ efforts to make visible the pain of our fellow and sister Americans as they condemn extrajudicial killings of unarmed African American men, women and children,” the resolution reads, according to Buzzfeed.
However, the Black Lives Matter group released a statement on Facebook Sunday rejecting the Democrats’ advances. ...
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