In Wichita, Kansas, a recent Black Lives Matter protest turned into a free community cookout after Police Chief Gordon Ramsey extended an invitation to local leaders to discuss racial issues over good food on a nice Sunday afternoon.

radicalblackfarmerSocial media posts by the Wichita Police Department about the event went viral, and the community held a productive discussion about the racial tensions gripping the country, with both sides gaining insight on the issue from the other, the Associated Press reports.

The successful cookout prompted officials with the Oakland, California police department to attempt to set up a similar community event, and they quickly learned that Oakland is a long way away from Kansas.

At an organized Black Lives Matter protest at the Oakland Police Officers Association office Wednesday, when “peaceful activists” chained themselves to the door for a 12-hour occupation, self-described “black liberal farmer” Karissa Lewis told Fox 2 what the local Black Lives Matter chapter thinks about the Oakland Police Department’s offer for a community barbeque.

“Barbecues aren’t going to stop the brutality that black folks are facing,” Lewis said. “A barbecue is definitely not going to stop this blockade.

“And as a radical-black farmer from East Oakland – I eat pigs, I don’t eat with them,” she said.

Fox 2 reports that Lewis then “used the mic-check call and response technique, popularized at the Occupy protests, and many of the activists … seemed to be in agreement with her about the offer.”

Oakland police told the news site the barbecue offer stands, nonetheless.

The Oakland Black Lives Matter was back in action with another protest Thursday at City Hall, where an Oakland summer camp hauled in students aged 2 to 12 to tote signs with slogans like “Racism isn’t born, it’s taught” and chant catchy ditties like “The people, united, we will never be defeated,” NBC Bay Area reports.

According to the news site:

Banners symbolizing dripping blood in red paint and accusations that the police are “murderers” and “rapists” hung in the background. Other children, some with their families and some with other organizations, attend the rally, too.

Some outside observers questioned whether the rally was appropriate, and even safe since several in the past have drawn violence and arrests, for children of such a young age. The camp invited “young activists,” ages 2 to 12, to attend and carry signs that they colored themselves. …

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Children were encouraged to draw pictures and write letters to the family members of those who have died as a “result of state violence” and bring them to an altar that they created with flowers, stones, candles and incense.

Numerous Facebook and Twitter posts showed students participating in the protest. Signs read “You can’t kill us all,” and “Kids for racial justice!”