Cori Bush says Black Lives Matter movement cannot become a fad

Rep.-elect Cori Bush (D-Mo.) called for Black Lives Matter to not become “a fad” after a year in which support for the movement swelled in response to the police-caused deaths of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd.

“Now we’ve got corporations saying ‘Black Lives Matter,'” Bush said in a recent interview with ABC News that she shared on Twitter on Wednesday. “We’ve got big signs and it’s not only the hashtag. It’s commercial. It’s on clothing.”

“It’s all over the place that Black lives matter. It’s a fad. But we need to do is not allow it to be a fad,” Bush continued.

“Black Lives Matter” cannot be a fad. We need it to be a fact.

We need Congress to legislate in defense of Black Lives. pic.twitter.com/iys8OaPdzk

— Cori Bush (@CoriBush) December 30, 2020

Bush referenced the popularity of the phrase that was adopted by corporations and on signs and commercialized.

“We need it to be a fact, because when it is a fact we get to live,” she said.

Bush also urged Congress “to legislate in defense of Black lives.”

Earlier this month, Bush penned an op-ed urging President-elect Joe Biden to help end federal executions in the U.S. by granting clemency to all death row inmates.

“It doesn’t have to be this way. Under the Constitution, Presidents have the extraordinary power to shorten sentences and erase convictions altogether,” she wrote.