The GOP and their base do not care about this in the least.

Preaching to the choir and attacking soft targets like Sen Sanders (soft as in He will let people speak and respond as a statesman should) is easy and actually detrimental to the group.

Staging demonstration in the heart of Republikkkan land can show the true discrimination ingrained in that party.

I guess.

The republicans are the type of people that never forgive. (Ok..unless it's a bank or CEO)

I think the critique is that the republicans and right-wing are pretty plain in upholding white supremacy, while the liberal left does so on the sly. I'm not saying I agree with it - that's my understanding of the position. It's not "partisan."

Seems Democrats and Bernie Sanders especially is catching the most fire from them. Could be another swift boat campaign.

Either that or Sanders is the easiest target to go after because he is old and white has very little security and would not lock people up for speaking their minds.

I understand what you are saying. As someone whose political activities has, in my opinion, intersected the radical BLM movement more than a little, I think that 1) the BLM people are not rightists in any conventionally understood way, and 2) it is unimportant who is funding what. One of the women who spoke at the Sanders event had a lot of postings lauding things like anti-colonialism and even Ho Chi Minh. I do not believe that she is a right-winger.

I think there's an excellent opportunity for Sanders to speak to the current state of racism in this country, in particular as it affects law enforcement. He could make specific commitments on what he would do through his administration and even by executive order.

Maybe Im a bit suspicious and jaded by the cheap political tricks that have been pulled in our elections.

The focus on Sanders seems like a political trick.

BLM as far as i can tell is a decentralized leaderless movement and the activist are autonomous.

But, what appears on the surface is rarely correct in our political system.

The canned response given then was that they weren't protesting Republican events because it's apparently pointless to have a protest against racism being aimed at a group that is racist to the core.

bow down to that yeah?

Would not be the passive bystanders with a deer in the headlights look the guys the the orange vest were for Sanders.

I woild like to see them on the stage with Jeb or Donald look the republikkkans right in the eye.

lets get the old white guy who's on our side instead. YEAH!

The police like to refer to young black men as thugs. If you want to see the real thugs, just show up at a Republican events and start chanting, "Black lives matter!"

I think I get it.

First, I am not talking about what happened in Seattle because there are some things about it that don't pass the smell test.

But let's talk about any group that confronts Dems on racial issues. Democrats get it, we are already on board with racial equality. Yet there is still a long way to go. It makes more sense to work with those already getting it than having to start from scratch with a bunch of small minded people.

For example, my husband is a feminist and tries to understand my point of view. When I walk out to my car in a dark parking lot a shitload of stuff goes through my head: walk with purpose, keys ready, make sure you had parked under a light not too far from an entrance, should I ask someone to escort me, check the back seat, check under the car, unlock only the driver's side etc etc. Ok I don't always do all this, but sometimes I have.

My husband may get the "park under a light" - but all the other stuff he doesn't even think about. When I point it out to him - immediately he gets it. And he may join me in trying to make parking lots safer (for example). But the bigger problem isn't the parking lot - it is the overall culture of fear many women grow up in that needs to change.

I have a better chance helping him do more than just make one thing safer, than some knuckledragging idiot who says "pack a gun" or "just don't go out".

Police brutality is just a symptom of a much larger problem (to use another example). We have to go deeper to the roots to make change, and you are going to get further with Democrats.


I could be waaaaaay off base. This is just how I am trying to make sense of it all.

Like that openly racist Bernie Sanders fellow.

Bernie Sanders also draws massive crowds.

Republicans have absolutely no interest in ending racial injustice, and get absolutely pitiful attendance at their events.

which means they're monumentally clueless or being manipulated by people who are Not Our Friends.

Speaking strictly as a "white supremacist liberal" of course. ...