feed to stay on top of the news. In 2015, I was the founder of Black Lives Matter in St. Paul. I believed the organization stood for exactly what the name implies – Black lives do matter. However, after a year on the inside, I learned they had little concern for rebuilding Black families, Turner said.
Turner published a YouTube video that states that BLM has a desire to disrupt the nuclear family structure. And they cared even less, Turner added, about improving the quality of education for students in Minneapolis. That was made clear when they publicly denounced charter schools alongside the teachers union.
Rashad Turner, Ex-BLM Leader, Calls Out Group, Says It Doesn t Care About Black Families
On 6/1/21 at 2:23 PM EDT
The founder of a Minnesota Black Lives Matter chapter said he turned his back on the organization because the ugly truth is the group s leaders don t care about Black families.
Rashad Turner, who is now executive director of the Minnesota Parent Union, stressed the need for education in helping Black families change their lives for the better. Turner, who was founder of the St. Paul chapter of the group in 2015, said he left after just two years when he realized BLM leaders were issuing statements against teachers unions and even the nuclear family structure. Turner released a video Wednesday last week that described his falling out with BLM for not caring about improving the quality of education for students across the state.
Patrisse Cullors, co-founder of a viral Black Lives Matter movement that fuelled a wave of worldwide protests in summer 2020, announced last week that she s resigning.