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Black Lives Matter raised eyebrows with a Thanksgiving post that characterized America as \"stolen land.\"<\/p>\n
\"You are eating dry turkey and overcooked stuffing on stolen land,\" BLM's national arm wrote on Twitter Thursday. The post included a graphic repeating the \"stolen land\" claim.<\/p>\n
\"You are on stolen land. Colonization never ended, it just became normalized,\" the graphic said, instructing Americans to learn \"which ancestral homeland\" they are \"currently occupying.\"<\/p>\n
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The tweet quickly sparked backlash on social media.<\/p>\n
BLM, which supports defunding the police, has been a constant source of controversy.<\/p>\n
Co-founder Patrisse Cullors announced her departure from BLM earlier this year, amid scrutiny of the group's finances. Cullors had garnered scrutiny by purchasing several homes worth millions of dollars.<\/p>\n
BLM sparked backlash in July after releasing a statement that appeared to side with Cuba's communist regime over freedom-seeking protesters. <\/p>\n
A Black Lives Matter banner is displayed on the building of the U.S. Embassy in Spain, on May 25, 2021 in Madrid, Spain. (Photo by Oscar Caas\/Europa Press via Getty Images)<\/p>\n
The statement originally posted on Instagram and later tweeted and retweeted blamed the U.S. embargo for the country's instability and credited the Cuban government for historically granting \"Black revolutionaries\" asylum.<\/p>\n
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Cuba is being \"punished by the U.S. government because the country has maintained its commitment to sovereignty and self-determination,\" the statement read. The group said Cuba has been an ally with \"oppressed peoples of African descent\" and praised the countrys effort to protect \"Black revolutionaries like Assata Shakur.\"<\/p>\n
Shakur, also known as JoAnne Chesimard, was convicted of being an accomplice in the 1973 slaying of New Jersey State Trooper Werner Foerster, who left behind a wife and 3-year-old son. Shakur later escaped prison and fled to Cuba, where former Cuban leader Fidel Castro granted her asylum.<\/p>\n
Fox News' Edmund DeMarche contributed reporting<\/p>\n
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