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BET Founder Says BLM Should Become a Political Party

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While still doing interviews propping up the currently president, the founder and former owner of Black Entertainment Television (BET) has penned a memo to Black Lives Matter encouraging the organization to create a political party.

Bob Johnson released the memo Wednesday through his RLJ Companies, a business network providing strategic investments, founded by Johnson, according to Black Enterprise magazine.
The memo reads, in part:
 “I am writing to you with a suggestion that Black Lives Matter (BLM) consider establishing a formal independent political party. The party could be founded on the principle articulated by the founding members of the Congressional Black Caucus in 1971,” the memo states. “That formative principle stated, “Black people have no permanent friends, no permanent enemies.…just permanent interests.”

Johnson continues:

 “There are many people, both Black and white who believe that independent parties can make a significant contribution to the current political system as to how this nation of 300 million diverse citizens can be governed in the best interest of all Americans,” Johnson continues. “Many pundits will try to convince you that it is impossible for independent parties to exist in this country.  They will argue that the American people seem to be satisfied with just two choices.  To the contrary, I believe a politically astute and structured Black independent party, committed and engaged in the electoral process, can prove them wrong.”

Last summer, Johnson praised President Donald Trump and said Democrats have gone too far to the left.

And, in November of 2019, Johnson, in an interview with CSNBC, said that he thinks the election is “Trump’s to lose.” 

“I think the president has always been in a position where it’s his to lose based on his bringing a sort of disruptive force into what would be called political norms.” 

Many are trying to determine, giving Johnson’s seemingly continued support for Trump, what his true motives are.

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