Black Lives Matter protesters shut down Sanders event in Seattle

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Additionally:

Today, the resistance to Black women’s anger takes the form of a racist backlash against the disruptors of a Seattle Bernie Sanders campaign event. We can understand Marissa Johnson and Mara Willaford as the living inheritors of Lorde’s call to anger in the contemporary Black Movement. The will to silence them is not new and like Wallace, the vitriol they have incurred comes seemingly from all sides of the political spectrum. In particular, Johnson and Willaford have been denounced for the manner of their critique — too angry, vitriolic — and for attacking a supposed ally in Sanders. Wallace, too, was lambasted for her angry message attacking a supposed ally in the Black man.

Getting angry works for Black women — it gets results and keeps us alive. And we haven’t stopped deploying it to save ourselves when America wants us either compliant or dead.

 

[Second Summer]

Short answer from work: Black lives > white feelings.

Of course, but that doesn't give her the right to call a crowd of mostly white people "white liberal supremacists". She knows next to nothing about those people. And then her feelings were hurt when said crowd and organizers got unhappy and irate that their event was disrupted and shut down. Well, d'uh. And if someone shouted "All lives matter!" in such a moment of great anger, I don't agree that that makes them "white liberal supremacists" either, not at all.

Which leads to me ask, does Marissa Johnson know what a white supremacist is?

Not for lack of trying.

They arrived at the event too late, so they couldn't have been trying that hard. And then they went to have a cozy chat with the nice Clinton lady in the back room away from the cameras. That's quite a different approach, but of course they didn't have Marissa Johnson with them ....

 

[Calliegirl]

They kind of remind me of PETA with the tactics they're using. Both groups are trying to do something good, but they're their own worst enemy with the publicity stunts they use and end up alienating people.

 

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A letter to Sen. Sanders:

Let this be an acknowledgement that I see you and the work you've done. Yet you should consider why the expectation that I, or any black person, should applaud your past as a way of deflecting criticism — in the midst of continued, heart-numbing violence against unarmed black civilians — is insulting. This is not the '60s, and despite the continued iteration of your record of allyship with black people, the fact remains that five decades later, black people are still mobilizing against virulent anti-black racism.

 

[Blobbenstein]

Is Sanders going to be the next president? I'm not really in touch with US politics.

 

[ledboots]

Is Sanders going to be the next president? I'm not really in touch with US politics.

I don't think so. The 2 party system is too powerful ($$$).

 

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It's working:

Looks like all of those raucous protests are paying off. After many criticized #BlackLivesMatter protesters for preventing Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders from speaking at a rally in Seattle, the Vermont Senator released a sweeping racial justice plan. Now, he’s agreed to meet with activists to talk about it.

 

[FortyTwo]

I don't think so. The 2 party system is too powerful ($$$).

Sanders is running as a Democrat and if he doesn't win the primaries he's not running in the election as a third party candidate because he knows the country can't handle another Republican President and he would much rather have Clinton than a Republican in office.

If Sanders doesn't win the primary election and become the Democratic candidate, it's not anything to do with the two-party system, it's to do with Hillary's popularity and Sanders's comparative lack of visibility.

 

[ledboots]

Sanders is running as a Democrat and if he doesn't win the primaries he's not running in the election as a third party candidate because he knows the country can't handle another Republican President and he would much rather have Clinton than a Republican in office.

If Sanders doesn't win the primary election and become the Democratic candidate, it's not anything to do with the two-party system, it's to do with Hillary's popularity and Sanders's comparative lack of visibility.

It does matter, though, because the Democrats are throwing all their $$ and power behind Clinton.

 

[FortyTwo]

It does matter, though, because the Democrats are throwing all their $$ and power behind Clinton.

Then that would be intra-party conflict.

I totally agree, don't get me wrong, I just thought your first post was implying that Sanders was running as an independent or something.

 

[ledboots]

Then that would be intra-party conflict.

I totally agree, don't get me wrong, I just thought your first post was implying that Sanders was running as an independent or something.

That's what I meant. The Democrats want Clinton, and do not want to be the Socialist party with a candidate they can't control, I don't think.