John,
On the night of the Biden/Harris victory, Black Lives Matter sent a letter requesting a meeting with our newly elected President and Vice-President.
And on Tuesday, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris met with several civil rights leaders and groups.
...But we weren't invited.
For the newly elected administration (that ran on promises of racial justice) to ignore our ongoing request to meet with them and refuse us a seat at the table is demeaning to our movement. It's demeaning to our hurt and trauma. It's demeaning to the countless times we took our protest to the streets to call for justice for our Black brothers and sisters taken from us at the hands of police.
This is also a blatant disregard of the millions of Black organizers and voters who handed Joe Biden and Kamala Harris their electoral victory.
We deserve a seat at the table. And the 64,000 people and counting want us there, too.
We need to make it clear we won't be ignored. Please help amplify our demands on Twitter!
Black Lives Matter is leading the largest global social justice movement in history, and to ignore us -- including the 64,000 of you that signed the petition demanding a meeting -- is to ignore our generation's most pressing demands for transformative justice toward Black liberation.
The Civil Rights Movement of the 21st century involves Black Lives Matter, without question.
To Joe Biden and Kamala Harris: We are watching, we are waiting...and we're tired of waiting.
Let them know you're tired of waiting too, John. Amplify our message to Joe Biden and Kamala Harris on Twitter.
Our voices
will be heard, and
we will play a crucial role in what the next 4 years look like one way or another.
Let's keep on making noise.
-- Black Lives Matter Global Network
