Patrisse Cullors on leaving BLM, racial justice, and the election
Imperfect Paradise
LAist Studios
4.5 • 535 Ratings
🗓️ 9 October 2024
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Artist, abolitionist, and co-founder of Black Lives Matter Patrisse Cullors shares her perspective on what's at stake in the 2024 election and reflects on the current state of the BLM movement. Imperfect Paradise host Antonia Cereijido’s conversation with Cullors is part of a series of interviews with notable Californians in the lead up to the election, in which they talk about a range of key issues.
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| 0:44.0 | This is Imperfect Paradise, the show about the gap between the dream and reality. |
| 0:45.8 | I'm Antonia Serejido. |
| 0:51.7 | We are continuing our conversations with notable Californians in the lead-up to the election. |
| 0:57.0 | Last week, we heard from philosopher and gender study scholar Judith Butler. Later this month, we'll hear from Republican strategist Mike Madrid and from newly inaugurated president of the LA City Council, Marquise Harris Dawson. |
| 1:06.0 | But today, Patrice Cullors. |
| 1:10.0 | Patrice is an artist and a co-founder of the Black Lives Matter movement. |
| 1:16.9 | In October of 2021, Pew Research conducted a survey that found that, according to Black Americans, |
| 1:23.6 | Black Lives Matter had done more for black people than other organizations, including the NAACP, |
| 1:29.8 | Black churches and other religious groups, and the Congressional Black Caucus. |
| 1:34.4 | It was a pretty staggering assessment, considering that Black Lives Matter started as a humble hashtag on social media not even a full decade earlier. |
| 1:46.4 | It all began in the summer of 2013 with a Facebook post, a quote, |
| 1:51.6 | love letter to black people written by activist and Angelino Alicia Garza in response to the |
| 1:57.4 | acquittal of George Zimmerman, the man who was tried for shooting and killing Trayvon Martin, a 17-year-old black boy in Florida. |
| 2:06.8 | Patrice, who was Alicia Garza's friend and fellow Angelineo, responded to her friend's post with hashtag Black Lives Matter. |
| 2:15.0 | The hashtag took off. And in New York, activist I.O. to many, used it to build an |
| 2:20.8 | online network of anti-racism activists. From there, the hashtag and the movement continued to spread. |
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