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Blexit

Blexit ( or ) is a Minneapolis-based grassroots non-profit movement founded in 2016 after the police killing of Philando Castile. It offers support to African Americans through economic activism and black-owned institutions. The name Blexit is a portmanteau of "black" and "exit" fashioned after Brexit and was coined by Me'Lea Connelly in 2016. In 2018, Candace Owens co-opted the term for a social media campaign urging African Americans to leave the Democratic Party. She set up the BLEXIT Foundation which merged with Turning Point USA in 2023.

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Blexit ( or ) is a Minneapolis-based grassroots non-profit movement founded in 2016 after the police killing of Philando Castile. It offers support to African Americans through economic activism and black-owned institutions. The name Blexit is a portmanteau of "black" and "exit" fashioned after Brexit and was coined by Me'Lea Connelly in 2016. In 2018, Candace Owens co-opted the term for a social media campaign urging African Americans to leave the Democratic Party. She set up the BLEXIT Foundation which merged with Turning Point USA in 2023.

Key claims

  1. date of foundation: 2016 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95

Discussion questions

  1. Summarise the article in your own words. Which single claim would you verify first, and why?
  2. The record states that the date of foundation is "2016". What evidence would count against this claim?
  3. Which claim in this article is most likely to be revised as the sources update? How would you check its current status?
  4. If two sources disagreed about one of these facts, what would you need in order to trust one over the other?

Bibliography

  1. Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1374370251

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