While most of us have never heard of Tomi Lahren, the talk show host took some time to scold Beyonce and her half-time performance. We all know that when it comes to the Black Lives Matter movement, many of our Caucasian cohorts hate the movement and what it stands for. Yes, they hate that black people are expressing the fact that black lives really do matter, police brutality is wrong, and black people deserve a trial by a jury of their peers and they do not deserve to be gunned down in the street by a trigger-happy police officer.

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The following morning, after Lahren’s dramatic rant, Charlemagne gave Tomi “Donkey of the Day” during his morning show on The Breakfast Club. Tomi received this title because the rhetoric many people are using against Beyonce’s performance was that she is honoring the Black Panthers – which they have chosen to call a terrorist group. In 2016 this type of rhetoric should not work, but of course, people are falling for it and are currently gathering at an Anti-Beyonce rally on today in protest of this performance.

Most of us understand the Black Panther Party was started as a defense against the thousands of murders of black people here in America. The movement was not built to use violence; however, violence would be used if it was necessary. The government used the same tactics against the Panther party that they used against Martin Luther King in order to demonize their efforts. We all know that Hoover along with the F.B.I. took extreme and illegal measures to discredit King (Read This NY Times Article). These same lynch-men used whatever measures necessary to discredit, vilify and destroy the Black Panther Movement (Read This Atlanta Black Star Article).

Unfortunately, people like Tomi Lahren are using the same propaganda in 2016 that the government tried to use against King and the Panthers in the sixties. Calling them a terrorists group, saying that they are out to kill the police, and many other factors that are simply not accurate are being used today to sway simple people who are too lazy to study the history of the civil rights movement for themselves.

Last week Charlemagne The God and Tomi Lahren went toe-to-toe in a discussion about Beyonce’s Superbowl performance, the Panther Party and other topics. While Tomi led and ended with the only civil rights leader they know anything about- Martin Luther King and the only subject that they feel safe talking about “nonviolence”. Charlemagne attempted to get her to understand that the Bey’s performance was not ANTI-POLICE it was against POLICE BRUTALITY. The dialogue was one of those discussions that people say Americans need to have more often, however it was obvious that Lahren was not letting up against her original rant, and Charlemagne was never going to cosign anything she said. Let’s just say they agreed to disagree. Check out the full interview below.

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Drea Maria

God’s Kid. Editor-in-Chief of Syllabus Magazine. Concerned Citizen. Gamecock. MBA. Made in Charleston.