Rashad Turner, the former leader of Black Lives Matter St. Paul, is joining a nonprofit organization that actively opposes Black Lives Matter for their stance on charter schools.
One of the six demands issued by Black Lives Matter deals with charter schools, specifically their intent to enact a moratorium on them, alleging they perpetuate unequal federal funding and further racial disparities. Rashad Turner believes that charter schools give families greater choices on where they send their children to school.
Daily Signal reports that Turner said, “To hear Black Lives Matter national and NAACP national come out with a moratorium on charter schools put me on the opposite side of the table, and I believe it put them on the wrong side of history.”
We’ve been critical of Rashad Turner in the past for his role in blindly leading Black Lives Matter St. Paul in inciting violence against police. His Black Lives Matter group was captured on video chanting, “pigs in a blanket, fry ‘em like bacon.” We’ve also exposed him for spreading misinformation about police actions that Black Lives Matter St. Paul was protesting, even though they knew absolutely nothing about the incident. A common characteristic of Black Lives Matter is to promote their own version of the truth based on their own misguided interpretation of how police should be trained and carry out their duties.