{"id":10919,"date":"2016-02-21T23:12:53","date_gmt":"2016-02-22T04:12:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/frenchrevolution\/?p=10919"},"modified":"2016-02-21T23:17:49","modified_gmt":"2016-02-22T04:17:49","slug":"nashville-library-refuses-to-reserve-space-for-blacklivesmatter-meeting-read-the-hilarious-reason-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/frenchrevolution\/2016\/02\/21\/nashville-library-refuses-to-reserve-space-for-blacklivesmatter-meeting-read-the-hilarious-reason-why\/","title":{"rendered":"Nashville library refuses to reserve space for #BlackLivesMatter meeting &#8211; Read why!"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div class=\"getty embed image\" style=\"background-color: #fff; display: inline-block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: #a7a7a7; font-size: 11px; width: 100%; max-width: 594px;\">\n<div style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/505837498\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; position: relative; height: 0; padding: 66.666667% 0 0 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display: inline-block; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; margin: 0;\" src=\"\/\/embed.gettyimages.com\/embed\/505837498?et=pvv7HERGR3lvdXsY2WhR7w&amp;viewMoreLink=off&amp;sig=TrAqSSkwLEhrRZI3aCB-s9Fgl7zOyj1Wd1J0hPDM4Zw=&amp;caption=true\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 0;\">\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Alanis Morissette\u00a0should write a song about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/nation-now\/2016\/02\/19\/black-lives-matter-meetings\/80637498\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">this<\/a>:<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Library officials have told <a href=\"http:\/\/tnne.ws\/1XC9azk\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Nashville\u2019s chapter of the Black Lives Matter<\/a> movement that meetings restricting those who attend by race aren\u2019t allowed on public property.<\/p>\n<p>The decision has outraged Black Lives Mattermembers. But Nashville Public Library officials said they\u2019re following a library policy that specifies all meetings at their facilities must be open to the public and news media.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe library didn\u2019t cancel anyone\u2019s meeting,\u201d said library spokeswoman Emily Waltenbaugh, referring to a Black Lives Matter meeting Saturday that has been moved to a church.\u00a0\u201cWe\u2019re taxpayer funded. We have to be open to anyone any time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For the past few months, the Black Lives Matter movement here has had chapter meetings at the North Branch Library. \u00a0But the group has a rule, said Joshua Crutchfield, an organizer of the Nashville chapter: Only blacks or other minorities\u00a0are allowed to attend. That means whites\u00a0are excluded.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Never fear. \u00a0They convened at a place that apparently was completely fine with racially segregated meetings: The Dixon Memorial United Methodist Church.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>If you love this nation, like America the Beautiful on Facebook:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-page\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/America-the-Beautiful-1751607001729566\/?pnref=story\" data-width=\"500\" data-small-header=\"false\" data-adapt-container-width=\"true\" data-hide-cover=\"false\" data-show-facepile=\"true\" data-show-posts=\"false\">\n<div class=\"fb-xfbml-parse-ignore\">\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/America-the-Beautiful-1751607001729566\/?pnref=story\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/America-the-Beautiful-1751607001729566\/?pnref=story\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">America the Beautiful<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alanis Morissette should write a song about this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":10921,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - 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