The end is nigh for #BlackLivesMatterand its leadership doesnt even see it yet.
DeRay Mckesson announced last week in a soporific Medium post that he is running for mayor of Baltimore, and the general response has been a collective cringe. Mckesson is one of the Black Lives Matter activists with the most promise, but by attempting to leverage a social movement into a political force for good, hes likely headed for trouble.
Mckesson survived the December Twitter fracas after Black Lives Matter cofounder, New York Daily News social justice columnist and erstwhile fundraiser Shaun King could not account for hundreds of thousands of dollars raised via social media platforms on behalf of Haitian earthquake victims and black victims of gun violence. Apparently Kings incompetence extended to his latest failed venture, the pseudo-nonprofit Justice Together. After King could not account for the organizations funds, board members, including Mckesson, resigned while accusing King of gross mismanagement.
King is permanently tainted by scandal and has reached his ceiling of political influence. He will finish his career by being a resource to mine for the odd sympathetic journalist looking for her big reporting break on the next Sandra Bland story.