Founder of the @womensmarch calls for current leaders to step down

[DURHAM D]

for allowing “anti-Semitism, anti- LBGTQIA sentiment and hateful, racist rhetoric to become a part of the platform by their refusal to separate themselves from groups that espouse these racist, hateful beliefs.“

Link to tweet

This should have happened before the first march.

[Bfd]

1. About Time! From the rightful leader of the movement. Not the grifters who hijacked it for their

personal self promotion & fortune.

They have been revealed & deserve condemnation.

[DownriverDem]

9. Help me out

I don't know what she means.

[Az_lefty]

20. Your exactly right

[sheshe2]

2. I agree.

About time. Their 'ideals' are not who we are.

[DURHAM D]

3. Amen

It was obvious from the get go -

The Women's March Is Not Officially Honoring Hillary Clinton
http://time.com/4641070/womens-march-excludes-hillary-clinton/

Linda Sarsour is what I would put on my dart board if I had one -

https://www.newsmax.com/emerson/march-sarsour-womens/2017/01/26/id/770552/

I attended the first march but did not wear pink because of their behavior.

[sheshe2]

4. Reading those articles again...

Makes me livid.

[DURHAM D]

19. Hey she,

did you see post 11 below? Good response from Mercy Morganfield.

I so hope the good guys win this time.

Let me know if you see an online petition for dumping the grifters.

[sheshe2]

29. I just did.

Grifters.

5 star hotels with family in tow. These women do NOT stand for me. Farrakhan? WTF? The man preaches hatred.There was another incident that pissed me off as well...won't get into it. I am sure you know the one I mean.

These women do not belong in a movement that supports not only women but equality for all. We are mothers we are teachers...we are beautiful creatures.

[ck4829]

15. Newsmax? Steve Emerson? Seriously?

[DURHAM D]

16. Linda and Steve belong together. nt

[lilactime]

5. I agree and I marched in DC in 2017.

[NBachers]

6. I marched then; I'm sure not marching now.

[Eric J in MN]

7. Linda Sarsour responds

We have been CRYSTAL CLEAR in BOTH of our statements that we REJECT antisemitism and all forms of racism. We have been CLEAR that Minister Farrakhan has said hateful and hurtful things and that he does not align with our Unity Principles of the Women's March that were created by Women of Color.

https://mavenroundtable.io/lindasarsour/politics/a-letter-on-loyalty-agency-unity-and-the-farrakhan-controversy-EqyktSghwkywYL1jKsADdQ/?fbclid=IwAR02toRvkMMJOwVKhgQpqkB52YBqEW4PUJatkBi2q2iHvWnqtcL7q3sDwb4

[DURHAM D]

13. Grifter still grifting.

Follow the money.

[leftynyc]

8. GOOD

This all should have been made public in 2017. Anyone who calls farrakhan a mentor is not someone I want ANYTHING to do with.

[mcar]

10. I attended the DC March

It met Teresa Shook's vision despite the current leaders and some of the speakers. The speakers, BTW, were completely unnecessary. The vast majority of us never got near the stage and couldn't have cared less. It was about the marchers, the women, men, and children of all ages, religions, and skin tone.

[DURHAM D]

14. Agree. It is always about the marchers and

we never hear/know what is being said from the stage.

[mcar]

17. It was such a positive event

One of the best experiences of my life. Seems the leaders are concerned with other things.

[seaglass]

11. Whoa, scroll down to the post from Mercy Morganfield - former head of the DC March

I've deactivated my FB so can't see the original. I marched in Boston at the first Women's March with hesitation (was not happy with the leaders at that time for their erasure of Hillary) but will not associate with them again until they clean up their act - preferably new leaders.

Link to tweet

[DURHAM D]

12. Thanks for posting.

I would like to know who is funding these traitors. It sure isn't me or anyone else I know.

[progressoid]

23. Planned Parenthood, NRDC, Emily's list, etc funds our local march.

[mcar]

18. Wow!

[JI7]

27. wow, Mercy Morganfields comments deserve it's own thread

[octoberlib]

21. I knew about the support for Farrakhan and anti-semitism. I saw some of Mallory's anti-Semitic

FB posts last year when women's marches in different cities were disassociating themselves from Sarsour and Mallory . I did not know about the grifting but am not surprised. This is good and long overdue.

[qwlauren35]

22. WHICH LEADERS?

They need to be specific.

[druidity33]

25. They were...

but maybe you didn't read that far.

[pwb]

24. Good, sometimes we have to take out the trash

[JI7]

26. Linda Sarsour is a sleazy fraud

[lapucelle]

28. Sarsour appropriated HRCs words as the theme, but blacklisted any attribution or mention of her name

And then grabbed credit as "the organizer" when there were over 50 individuals who held that title.

[Behind the Aegis]

30. About time!

Anti-Semitism and homo/bi/transphobia should have no quarter in this movement, anymore than their should be racism, Islamophobia, anti-atheism, ableism, ageism, and so forth!