2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Well, I see we've gone full on marginalizing BLM again [View all]TM99
(8,352 posts)This event was NOT a Sanders event. It was a Social Security and Medicare rally where he was invited to speak. There were numerous poc who spoke prior to Sanders. There were other whites who spoke prior to Sanders.
BLM Seattle only began their protest when Sanders took the stage.
Their Facebook statement clearly states that they are targeting Sanders and Sanders alone. Why?
The people who responded less kindly were not just Sanders supporters. They were there for a rally on Social Security and Medicare. They were also being called 'white liberal supremacists'. One of the heads of the protests has photos online of her with a T-shirt about 'drinking white tears'. And BLM Seattle has said that 'white liberal allies are useless'.
I love activism and protest movements. I and my family have been involved with them for decades. I am a bi-racial man who groks institutional racism having experienced it first hand.
What is happening now is something very different. I do not know why this is happening. It is not logical. It is not even reasonable. It is not a uniform protest movement with regards to all candidates either Dem or GOP. This is solely aimed at one of the most progressive candidates with some of the best history on civil rights for all persons of color.
This stinks, and I am very upset.