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Showing Original Post only (View all)Three assclowns break up an event in Seattle [View all]
And a few people here lap it up. To the credit of the membership here, most reject this nonsense.
I question whether these fools had anything to do with BLM. None of them tried to address the crowd, to speak eloquently about the hundreds of men who have lost their lives needlessly at the hands of killer cops. They were only interested in stopping the event by yelling and threatening people.
I suspect this was a paid political operation using Saul Alinsky-type tactics. You saw similar tactics by Republicans in Florida in 2000.
Who benefits? Not black people. Not progressives. Who?
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I have a better question. If BLM was giving a rally on the abuses of African Americans in America,
still_one
Aug 2015
#7
Good luck calling the only people who might potentially agree with you "white supremacists"
stranger81
Aug 2015
#12
Those people were from BLM, BLM seems quite proud of what they did, and BLM plans to do this to
djean111
Aug 2015
#3
I very highly doubt you've ever read a single publication by Saul Alinsky.
Gravitycollapse
Aug 2015
#13
BLM is urgently calling for criminal justice reform. That's why they're protesting.
pnwmom
Aug 2015
#15