No, BLM Did Not Ask Rich White People Not to Send Their Kids to Ivy League Schools

[Nevilledog]

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David Gilbert
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White residents in a wealthy area of Dallas got a letter claiming to come from a BLM group demanding they don't send their kids to Ivy League colleges.

Residents were outraged. So too were right wing media like Fox News

The problem is, it was all a hoax

No, BLM Did Not Ask Rich White People Not to Send Their Kids to Ivy League Schools
The widely reported-on letter campaign appears to be a hoax designed to discredit the Black Lives Matter movement.
vice.com
6:30 AM · Jul 30, 2021

https://www.vice.com/en/article/wx5bg5/blm-white-people-not-to-send-their-kids-to-ivy-league-college-dallas-highland-park

When Casie Tomlin opened her mailbox in the ultra-affluent enclave of Highland Park in Dallas on Saturday, July 17, she saw a FedEx envelope. Inside was a letter from an activist group called Dallas Justice Now.

It wasn’t the typical missive from a social justice organization. Rather than calling for defunding the police or protesting racial discrimination, the letter called on “white liberals and allies of the Black Lives Matter movement to make sacrifices to open up opportunities for students of color” by signing an online pledge not to send their children to Ivy League schools.

If they refused to sign, the letter warned, the group would publicly shame them by publishing their names on its website.

Tomlin’s neighbors in the staunchly Republican area also got the letter, and soon the local conservative Facebook group lit up with posts about how scary the letter was and how they couldn’t believe “the left” would do something like this.

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[underpants]

1. Who actually reads that crap?

If I’m not already doing business with an organization or it’s not coupons/sales material I trash it.

[Claustrum]

2. The purpose isn't to convince people of what the mail actually says.

It is to convince people that already dislike BLM that they are even worst than what they could imagine. The mail is used to get outrage from the right wing outlets and posts on facebook and social media and to discredit BLM further.

[DFW]

3. I got one of those letters.

It was sent to my Dallas address (which means they are using a very old mailing list), and sure enough, in an individual FedEx Letter Pak.

There was even a video link on some site to one of this "group's" members. Our area has a lot of Republicans, it's true, but it also has quite a few Democrats, including at least one billionaire Democrat I met at an Emily's List event he lent his house for. I haven't heard of anyone who fell for this garbage.

Any such organization, if legit, would be saving money any way they could, and not sending FedEx packages to every resident of every house!! How many times have we seen legitimate fundraising appeals saying "please place your first class stamp on your reply to save us much needed funds?" And here is some outfit to the left of BLM sending their "appeal" using a separate FedEx letter to each member of each household?

That is about as believable as Donald Trump entering a Greek Monastery after taking a vow of chastity--in Greek.