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Ken Burch

(50,254 posts)
Sun Aug 9, 2015, 03:54 AM Aug 2015

Suggestion to blm: why don't you offer a list of actions and commitments...

...which, if agreed to by a particular campaign, will stop that campaign's events from being disrupted by your group and establish that the candidate in question has proved him or herself trustworthy?

This could even mean an agreement to let blm speak at the beginning at all events, and a public declaration that the candidate backed an action plan giving its agenda much greater nationwide prominence.

Anyone who is running for the Democratic nomination would likely agree to whatever you asked, and you'd have a list of things to hold them to after the election. It would be win-win and you'd have huge clout in the next administration, whoever led it.

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Suggestion to blm: why don't you offer a list of actions and commitments... (Original Post) Ken Burch Aug 2015 OP
you speak as if this is an organization with a leadership ibegurpard Aug 2015 #1
If they did that, it wouldn't be a game of gotcha anymore. stranger81 Aug 2015 #2
Nailed it. djean111 Aug 2015 #3
They already did. The terms were met. Then the goalposts were moved. (nt) jeff47 Aug 2015 #4

ibegurpard

(17,081 posts)
1. you speak as if this is an organization with a leadership
Sun Aug 9, 2015, 04:12 AM
Aug 2015

It is not. It is a very loose knit group of activists with common concerns.

stranger81

(2,345 posts)
2. If they did that, it wouldn't be a game of gotcha anymore.
Sun Aug 9, 2015, 05:01 AM
Aug 2015

Besides, if one were to meet those demands, he or she would only be pandering.

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