Obama, however, is in power. And we are not at the table and he hasn't set one up.... yet.

If you are invited to the table, then yes, have an agenda. Since we are not at any table, yet, all we have is the street. On the street it is quite clear what our agenda is: Justice.

Obama needs to set up a table and bring both sides to it then we can go from there.

he isn't apart from the rest of the black population in dealing with racism.

but this is claiming his words have something to do with maintaining some power structure which makes no sense .

But having said that, I have no idea why Obama would say this to BLM activists. Compromise on what?

And I love the Bernie Sanders high five in the piece. Bernie has "called" for a lot of stuff in his time, I'm sure. Delivering on it is an entirely separate issue.

Voting and Civil Rights legislation came about - but the trade off was no reparations and the Vietnam War.

But we are smart/realistic/practical enough not to toss out the whole shabam because we're not getting everything we want on Day 1.

Jesse Jackson was right when he said that this administration likes to talk down to black people. He does this because he knows we're not organized and don't use our money to bribe the politicians so on some level he doesn't respect us. We're still getting killed by cops in the streets but Obama is more likely to say something positive about transsexuals getting to use the bathroom of their choice than say anything positive about dealing with racial injustice.

That's what I'm talking about!!!!

or respects us in either party. Liberals use us as mules for everyone else's causes but offer us nothing in return and republicans at best ignore us and at worst encourage people to violate our rights.

Best form of activism. politicians constantly criticized gay activists but had we not pushed, we'd never get anywhere.

so maybe if we turn out in equal numbers for congressional races as we do for POTUS, then we won't have to to reason much with the unreasonable. Otherwise have fun storming the castle and fall to the wayside of so many revolutions that give the masses so little in return or left us worse off.

and we've been saying that for many, many years. It would really help if they voted.

Sunday, Bernie Sanders offered host Chuck Todd a simple explanation for his having lost 16 of the 17 states with the highest levels of income inequality.

"Poor people don't vote," he said. "I mean, that's just a fact. That's a sad reality of American society."
WaPo

or even know who he is?

Maybe they all support Hillary. I don't care one way or the other.

now bumpersticker!!!