U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden and his deputy He Jinli held an online meeting on Tuesday (Dec. 8) to discuss issues including race and judicial reform, attended by some of the leaders of advocacy groups. In response, the leftist group Black Lives Matter (BLM) tweeted on the 9th to criticize Biden for not inviting him to the meeting.
According to Fox, BLM lashed out at both Democratic candidates on Wednesday for being shut out of Biden’s roundtable of civil rights groups, tweeting that “Joe Biden, Kerry Horace and Rep. Cedric Richmond met with several civil rights groups yesterday” but “did not invite” BLM.
Biden’s team did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
According to Politico, the meeting included topics such as voting rights, planning for judges and administrative levels, as well as criminal justice reform and racial equality – two topics that have been the subject of riots in several states by the BLM movement since the death of George Floyd in May.
Some media analysis suggests that BLM was not invited because of tensions within the Democratic Party.
BLM co-founder Alicia Garza, on the other hand, declared that “his movement could really help push [Biden’s] campaign to the finish line and was used as a political soccer throughout the election cycle, and in 2016 as well.”
The BLM organization tweeted that they had sent letters to Biden and Hejinli asking for a meeting with BLM members since Biden was declared the winner on Nov. 7, but had not received a response after 32 days. the BLM said the organization deserved a seat at the table and that Biden’s meeting with other groups without the BLM was unacceptable to it.
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