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BlackLivesMatter-Seattle publicly apologizes to Sanders and Seattle (Original Post) Triana Aug 2015 OP
Pointless apology. BLM can't control its various members and branches HereSince1628 Aug 2015 #1
I feel the same way... Triana Aug 2015 #3
Apology not accepted by this supporter. PADemD Aug 2015 #2
#notgoodenough FlatBaroque Aug 2015 #4
They never wanted our support before Hydra Aug 2015 #5

HereSince1628

(36,063 posts)
1. Pointless apology. BLM can't control its various members and branches
Sat Aug 8, 2015, 09:26 PM
Aug 2015

It's the basic problem with protests and crowd-sourcing,

the "crowd" always includes some useful idiots...

Protests hang on the power of disruption... disruption is relatively easy...

a useful idiot says out loud how cool and empowering it would be to disrupt Sanders -again-

and you get disruption of Sanders again.


Now that the copy-catting has begun we can expect it to continue,

Sanders is about as much a white racist as Obama was born in Kenya.

Hydra

(14,459 posts)
5. They never wanted our support before
Sat Aug 8, 2015, 10:55 PM
Aug 2015

Until they outed themselves as partisans. And I'm not speaking as a Bernie supporter, I'm speaking as an equal rights supporter.

They can get in the back of the line if they want to help.

Update:

https://twitter.com/blm_seattle/status/630207043433967616


BlackLivesMatter-WA
?@blm_seattle

This page will be deleted affective immediately. I also recant the apology for BLM Seattle. I am in no way affiliated with the chapter

Or the national network. I'm just a teenager who wanted to be involved and spoke for people I had no business speaking for.

Sorry for the confusion

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