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2016 Postmortem

KeepItReal

(7,769 posts) Wed Aug 12, 2015, 01:08 AM Aug 2015

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"If he's (Sen. Bernie Sanders) our best option, then I'm burning this down."

That's the words of Seattle Black Lives Matter self-professed "agitiator" Marissa Janae Johnson.

There's nothing that Bernie Sanders OR Hillary Clinton OR Donald Trump can do for her. The whole system has to be "dismantled".

Listen to this starting at 29:00 where she says where she's coming from:

This is her first media interview:

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"If he's (Sen. Bernie Sanders) our best option, then I'm burning this down." (Original Post) KeepItReal Aug 2015 OP

ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ... Indepatriot Aug 2015 #1

By any means necessary! Justice or else! notadmblnd Aug 2015 #2

Future Fox host? flamingdem Aug 2015 #3

Perhaps she meant then I'm Berning this down. Juicy_Bellows Aug 2015 #4

Or down with Bernie, even. Live and Learn Aug 2015 #7

We've figured it out! Juicy_Bellows Aug 2015 #8

She's certainly entitled to her opinion Cali_Democrat Aug 2015 #5

Does she have a replacement in mind for the system? Live and Learn Aug 2015 #6

Indepatriot

(1,253 posts)

1. ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ...

Reply to KeepItReal (Original post)

Wed Aug 12, 2015, 01:19 AM

Aug 2015

notadmblnd

(23,720 posts)

2. By any means necessary! Justice or else!

Reply to KeepItReal (Original post)

Wed Aug 12, 2015, 01:20 AM

Aug 2015

I heard her.

flamingdem

(39,320 posts)

3. Future Fox host?

Reply to KeepItReal (Original post)

Wed Aug 12, 2015, 02:06 AM

Aug 2015

Juicy_Bellows

(2,427 posts)

4. Perhaps she meant then I'm Berning this down.

Reply to KeepItReal (Original post)

Wed Aug 12, 2015, 03:10 AM

Aug 2015

Cheers!

Live and Learn

(12,769 posts)

7. Or down with Bernie, even.

Reply to Juicy_Bellows (Reply #4)

Wed Aug 12, 2015, 03:55 AM

Aug 2015

We all make typos sometimes.

Juicy_Bellows

(2,427 posts)

8. We've figured it out!

Reply to Live and Learn (Reply #7)

Wed Aug 12, 2015, 03:57 AM

Aug 2015

On to the next enigma! Cheers!

Cali_Democrat

(30,439 posts)

5. She's certainly entitled to her opinion

Reply to KeepItReal (Original post)

Wed Aug 12, 2015, 03:14 AM

Aug 2015

I value the input of #BLM activists.

I don't agree with everything she says, but she really does make some excellent points.

Live and Learn

(12,769 posts)

6. Does she have a replacement in mind for the system?

Reply to KeepItReal (Original post)

Wed Aug 12, 2015, 03:53 AM

Aug 2015

She should share her plan. Bernie shares his.

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