‘Nigerian’ BlackLivesMatter Co-Founder Whose Campaign Led To Trump’s Ban On Social Media
The #BlackLivesMatter movement, co-founded by Opal Tometi ( daughter of Nigerian immigrants to the United States) has been spreading the “End White Supremacy” campaign across the US and has called for censorship of President Donald Trump on social media.
The movement has also spearheaded calls for the removal of other elected and appointed political office holders whose rhetorics may have inspired the mob attack at Washington DC.
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The BLM organization, which was founded in 2013 but came to global limelight after the death of George Floyd in 2020, ( by a white police officer, Derek Chauvin), in a tweet on Sunday, alleged that some Congress members should be held responsible for the assault on the U.S. Congress on Wednesday.
“We cannot denounce white supremacy and allow its endorsers to continue serving in our government.
“We support our sister Cori Bush (Congresswoman) legislation that would remove all Representatives who incited the terrorist attack,” it tweeted.
The BLM, in its demands on Saturday, following the Capitol Hill attack, called for Trump’s Impeachment, expulsion of “treasonous” Republican members of Congress, and that Trump be banned from all social media sites, among other demands.
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Twitter deleted Trump’s account hours after while Facebook and Instagram had already banned him indefinitely.
While THE WHISTLER cannot independently prove that the BLM demands led to the Twitter ban, it earlier reported that the social media company took the decision citing the president’s violation of its rules.
On her part, Tometi, the black American activist, said she was passionate for the black community.
“I can’t wait for the day that Black folks get a break from being asked to find new ways to explain the same old bullshit. I hope white allies step all the way up and do the necessary work of gathering your cousins – everyday. So much has already been lost, and much is still at stake,” she had tweeted.
The attack on the U.S. capitol occured after Trump had urged his supporters to be “bold” in demanding that the November 3 presidential election be overturned.
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