Twitter erupted on Monday in response to conservative radio and
online host Glenn Beck's sympathetic comments about the Black Lives
Matter movement over the weekend. In a speech on Friday at the annual
RedState Gathering, a conservative grassroots conference, Beck urged his
fellow conservatives to "understand" and even sympathize with the
movement.
The comments were an about-face for Beck, who
since the movement sprang to the national mainstream following the
August 2014 death of Michael Brown has stridently attacked the hashtag
#BlackLivesMatter as exclusionary and, itself, racist.
Beck told the audience he had evolved on the
issue, however, following the Dallas police shootings last month. He
called for dialogue between conservatives and Black Lives Matter
organizers on the ground, using an "All Pies Matter" metaphor.
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