As part of CNN's celebration of the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment, the network is highlighting what it calls "the past, the present, and the future of women’s rights in the U.S. and around the world." As part of this series, called Represented, Saturday CNN Newsroom host Bianna Golodryga honored the self-professed Marxists, and co-founders of the Black Lives Matter organization.
Golodryga introduced a clip of BLM co-founder Patrisse Cullors by hiding their radically political beliefs:
First in today's Represented, we mark the 100th anniversary of women getting the right to vote with stories of modern women willing to get into good trouble. Meet a co-founder of the Black Lives Matter movement who turned a hashtag into a global rallying cry against racism and police brutality.
Cullors is the one who said in 2015, "We are trained Marxists. We are super-versed on, sort of, ideological theories. And I think that what we really tried to do is build a movement that could be utilized by many, many black folk."
Their website, which not-so subtly uses the word "comrades," also lays out their anti-nuclear family beliefs: "We disrupt the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure requirement by supporting each other as extended families and 'villages' that collectively care for one another, especially our children, to the degree that mothers, parents, and children are comfortable."
CNN viewers were informed of none of this. Instead if you just watched CNN you would come away with the impression that Cullors and her co-founders are just ordinary citizens fighting injustice:
When we started Black Lives Matter, Alicia [Garza], Opal [Tometi], and I, we really started it in response to the killing of Trayvon Martin and then the acquittal of George Zimmerman. We were disturbed, we were dissatisfied, we were angry, we were wanting more for black people in general. Alicia Garza wrote a love note to black folks. I responded with a hashtag, black lives matter, on Facebook and then within the next 48 hours, we were creating this online community.
Cullors would go onto to conceal her own Marxist, anti-family ideology by simply declaring, "The mission of Black Lives Matter is affirming black life, fighting for black people to be thriving in their lives, divesting from militarization of policing and investing into black communities."
Golodryga then promoted the Represented series and went to commercial, again not giving the audience the full picture.
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Here is a transcript for the August 22 show:
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CNN Newsroom
11:41 AM ET
BIANNA GOLODRYGA: First in today's Represented, we mark the 100th anniversary of women getting the right to vote with stories of modern women willing to get into good trouble. Meet a co-founder of the Black Lives Matter movement who turned a hashtag into a global rallying cry against racism and police brutality.
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PATRISSE KHAN-CULLORS: When we started Black Lives Matter, Alicia, Opal, and I, we really started it in response to the killing of Trayvon Martin and then the acquittal of George Zimmerman. We were disturbed, we were dissatisfied, we were angry, we were wanting more for black people in general. Alicia Garza wrote a love note to black folks. I responded with a hashtag, black lives matter on Facebook and then within the next 48 hours, we were creating this online community. Mike Brown's murder would make black lives matter go viral the first time. There has been a long history of black people rising up against our death, our tragedies. With George Floyd's death, people witnessed him die in front of their eyes. People across the globe have shown up to not just talk about police violence but racist monuments taken down. This fight we're in isn't solely focused on black people dying. The mission of Black Lives Matter is affirming black life, fighting for black people to be thriving in their lives, divesting from militarization of policing and investing into black communities.END CLIP
GOLODRYGA: CNN is exploring the past, the present, and the future of women’s rights in the U.S. and around the world be sure to check out more of this reporting at cnn.com/represented.
