That is what it states on their manifesto page, It didn’t give a detailed informative description. I would guess it goes along with them wanting to remove Patriarchy perhaps. But to have that on their manifesto, along with some of the other information is worrying.
Boudicca not sure if this helps but from what I understand the American Black Lives Matter Movement – and if you look at the ‘About’ section of the UK wing there is a proviso that the American movement doesn’t speak for the UK – has its manifesto here:
blacklivesmatter.com/what-we-believe/
Black Lives Matter UK site is here
blacklivesmatteruk.com/about/
BLM is an umbrella group so not every wing will hold the same exact aims beyond the shared concern for black lives/social justice etc…Here, for example, a key reason why Churchill’s history has been debated is due to his stance on India, when part of the British Empire, so more directly relevant to the history of some British Asian communities, but won’t have the same relevance in the US.
news.sky.com/story/black-lives-matter-protests-how-focus-differs-between-us-and-uk-12004259
The American website of the main BLM organisation does reference the nuclear family:
We disrupt the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure requirement by supporting each other as extended families and “villages” that collectively care for one another, especially our children, to the degree that mothers, parents, and children are comfortable.
And that can be interpreted as the old ‘it takes a village’ saying. And seems quite positive, it’s about communities coming together rather than people struggling to manage in isolation. And the reference to patriarchy, is about supporting mothers who are being forced to juggle household responsibilities, childcare and work. Also the case in the UK with women still taking on most cleaning, cooking, childcare even after a long day at work. Something that comes up on MN threads on a regular basis.
The issue about defunding the police seems to be a complicated one, and related to an ongoing political debate in America where funds for the police have dominated the finances of some states and have continued to rise when other things have been drastically cut. In LA over half of the city’s funds apparently go to paying for police…which is quite different from here. And some people in the US have been arguing for some time that rather than continuously upping police funds, while cutting other services, that money could go to other agencies –
To help victims of domestic violence, we might invest in women’s centres; to support young people, we might open new youth centres. We might invest in better trauma services for both. We might remove the police from the process of sectioning the mentally ill. We might invest more broadly in community infrastructure, like employment, housing and education
www.wired.co.uk/article/defund-the-police
inews.co.uk/news/defund-the-police-meaning-what-mean-disband-policing-george-floyd-death-explained-440448