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In immediately’s episode of OK, What Are We Even Doing Right here? it seems {that a} Black Trump supporter claiming to be a Black Lives Matter “chief” will not be affiliated with the motion in any respect, which was revealed after Donald Trump co-signed the endorsement despite the fact that he spent half his presidency treating BLM like he needed to take it out on the White Home garden and lynch it.
On Wednesday, we reported that Mark Fisher—who claimed to be the co-founder and former senior director of a Black Lives Matter chapter in Rhode Island—declared along with his entire chest that he’ll be voting for Trump in 2024 as a result of “racist” insurance policies employed by the Democratic Celebration. Throughout an interview with Fox Information, Fisher erroneously claimed Black persons are caught on a “plantation,” however are additionally “not silly” as a result of we “perceive when somebody’s for us and when somebody shouldn’t be and it’s apparent that the Democratic celebration shouldn’t be for us.”
Right here’s what I wrote concerning that in our earlier report:
Fisher maintains that the Democratic celebration is dangerous for Black individuals, which, oddly sufficient, is the very same factor Trump stated about—*checks notes*—Black Lives Matter.
In actual fact, Trump spent a lot of 2020 attacking the BLM motion. He known as BLM protesters “terrorists,” “anarchists” and “thugs.” He known as the BLM motion “poisonous propaganda.” He known as the very idea of BLM a “image of hate.” He even falsely blamed BLM protests for an increase in COVID-19 circumstances just a few months earlier than researchers discovered that Trump rallies led to greater than 30,000 COVID-19 circumstances and greater than 700 COVID-19 deaths.
However that was then and that is now.
As we speak, Trump is so determined to show to the world he has Black pals that he has no drawback doing a whole 180 on his BLM stance, and, for that matter, the identical might be stated about Fox Information, which based on the Windfall Journal, has accomplished a number of interviews with the purported “chief” of the group the community spent years bashing.
“Spoke with Mark Fisher yesterday,” Trump posted on Reality Social. “An excellent man, very honored to have his and BLM’s assist.”
The Trump co-sign, together with the social media backlash over the endorsement, prompted the BLM chapter to launch a press release treating Fisher like a random man who confirmed as much as the cookout pretending to be household.
“In response to latest media protection, we want to make clear that Mark Fisher shouldn’t be and has by no means been affiliated with our group,” BLM Rhode Island stated in a press release, based on Uncooked Story. “The views expressed by Mr. Fisher within the referenced Fox Information section don’t mirror the values or beliefs of BLM RH PAC.”
However, now, it seems that Fisher was, in actual fact, as soon as affiliated with the group, albeit, not within the capability that he claimed.
From the Journal:
However whereas the nationwide information media described Fisher as a “chief” of Black Lives Matter and “co-founder” of Black Lives Matter RI, the group’s present head, Gary Dantzler, disputes these claims, saying Fisher solely labored as an advocate.
Dantzler, who’s the top of BLM RI and registered the group as a nonprofit with the IRS in 2021, stated Fisher was not a co-founder however, beginning that 12 months, labored for a matter of months as an advocate.
“Mark Fisher said he was one of many co-founders of BLM,” Dantzler stated. “Completely not. He was a revered advocate for BLM. That’s it. And he was paid and someplace he bought fired and demoted.”
At present, there is no such thing as a Rhode Island-based Black Lives Matter group within the IRS’ nonprofit database with Fisher listed. Nonetheless, Fisher was listed as a director in BLM RI’s articles of incorporation with the state in 2020. A 2022 annual report reveals his title was eliminated that 12 months.
Moreover, CNN reported that the nationwide Black Lives Matter group known as Fisher an “imposter” and a “right-wing” plant getting used to “amplify fringe Black voices to create an thought of broad assist for his or her corrupt candidates.”
One can solely think about how embarrassing it’s for Dantzler that late final month, Fisher posted a photograph of him and different BLM members, together with Dantzler (seen on the far left of the picture), with the group carrying BLM RI t-shirts.
