List of Demands from 'Black Lives Matter'

This is laughable.

Sandhya Somashekhar, at the Washington Post, purports to chronicle the list of "demands" from the "Black Lives Matter" protesters. See, "Oprah says protesters lack clear demands. Here’s what they do want." Ah, I don't think these "demands" are what the protests are really all about.

In any case, here's the background on Oprah's tussle with the "Black Lives" criminals, "Protesters slam Oprah over comments that they lack ‘leadership’."

Actually, Oprah didn't go far enough in dissing these thugs.

Novelist Darryl Pinckney, at the latest issue of the New York Review, indicates that the Michael Brown protesters in Missouri were looking beyond the old guard MLK-style leadership as models for the new (misnamed) "civil rights" rights movement now emerging. Ella Baker, an iconic civil rights activist of the 20th century, who was critical of top-down professionalized leadership, is considered an inspiration by the Ferguson protesters, and she was "ambivalent about nonviolence."

And if you're following along on Twitter, you know that protesters are not all about "non-violent" avenues of resistance:

It is so integral for elders to find the connections between the rad #blackbrunch organizing methods + the 60's lunch counter sit-ins.
— Sharmin Ultra (@sharminultraa) January 6, 2015

It is so necessary for elders of social movements to recognize that we don't follow their hierarchal non-collectivist respectability shit.
— Sharmin Ultra (@sharminultraa) January 6, 2015

It is so beautiful to see horizontal leadership, allies knowing their place, community safety + queer prison abolition all in one space.
— Sharmin Ultra (@sharminultraa) January 6, 2015

Our generation is talking about trans people, about the need to abolish prisons + police forces, about the need to dismantle systems.
— Sharmin Ultra (@sharminultraa) January 6, 2015

Our generation is attempting to center anti-blackness in a deeply embedded white supremacist social structure. We want to eradicate systems.
— Sharmin Ultra (@sharminultraa) January 6, 2015

It is not just about indictments. It is about eradicating entire systems whose foundation lie in private property, violence + incarceration.
— Sharmin Ultra (@sharminultraa) January 6, 2015

Dismantle. Abolish. Eradicate.

Yeah, not at all about "non-violence."

And notice how the protests are increasingly racist as well, at AoSHQ, "Protests Become Explicitly Anti-White As Black Protesters Occupy "White Spaces"-- Restaurants Where People Are Eating Sunday Brunch."