Posted by B. Christopher Agee October 8, 2015
URL of the original posting site: http://www.westernjournalism.com/black-lives-matter-leader-warns-replace-the-constitution-or-else-this-will-happen/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=ConservativeHeadlinesEmail&utm_campaign=AM2&utm_content=2015-10-09
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“Sounds like a terroristic threat to me.”
An activist’s racially motivated attack on the U.S. Constitution included a direct threat of violence against those who disagree with him. Blake Simons, identified as a leader in the Black Lives Matter movement, wrote an editorial with a message made clear in its title: A New Constitution or the Bullet.
Simons wrote that “the Constitution is the root of virtually all our problems in America,” going on to ridicule the nation’s founders as genocidal rapists.
“A Constitution written by only white men,” he asserted, “will never serve the interests of Black people. The Constitution was written for the ruling class of white men which constructed whiteness to be more valuable than any other race.”
In an apparent attempt to further clarify his article’s frank rhetoric, Simons wrote that “it is our human right to defend ourselves by any means necessary” and “overthrow a government that has been destructive to our people.”
He cited failed extremist efforts of decades past, proclaiming that now is the time for blacks to “pick up where the Black Panthers left off and declare a new constitution or it will be the bullet.”
The article was shared in a Free Republic post, prompting a number of replies lambasting Simon’s piece.
“Sounds like a terroristic threat to me,” one reader responded.
Another said the editorial represented the “[b]latherings of an idiot.”
At least a few advocates made their support known via social media, however, including one individual who posted a corresponding article in an attempt to get Simons’ attention.
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