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Washington (CNN) Civil rights activists met at the White House on Thursday with President Barack Obama, though a leader from Black Lives Matter, who was listed as an expected attendee, blasted the White House for organizing a photo-op without addressing real problems for minority communities.

"I could not, with any integrity, participate in such a sham that would only serve to legitimize the false narrative that the government is working to end police brutality and the institutional racism that fuels it," wrote Aislinn Pulley , a leader of Black Lives Matter Chicago who the White House said on Wednesday would be at the meeting.

Other attendees included Deshaunya Ware, a student leader of the University of Missouri protest group Concerned Student 1950; Al Sharpton, president of the National Action Network; NAACP President Cornell Brooks; and National Urban League leader Marc Morial.

In an op-ed on Truthout, Pulley said she "respectfully declined" the White House's invitation to attend the panel, which was organized as part of the administration's marking of Black History Month.

"I was under the impression that a meeting was being organized to facilitate a genuine exchange on the matters facing millions of Black and Brown people in the United States. Instead, what was arranged was basically a photo opportunity and a 90-second sound bite for the president," Pulley wrote.

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