Political Awareness Matters: How Black Lives Matter Are Screwing Themselves -- And the Rest of Us

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37. Black Posters Matter - On DU!

I was doing Jury Service early and found out that Bravenak's account had been "flagged for review" after being alert swarmed.

WTF.

I mean seriously. WTF.

If we are going to have a discussion about Black Lives Matter, don't we have to open up that discussion first and make sure that Black Posters Matter?

The jury situation I was involved with was someone who was complaining about the Bravenak situation - and even that was low key. He said: "And one black poster was banned for getting real?"

I had to research what he was talking about.

This led me to Bravenak, who had failed to get on the DU bandwagon about Seattle.

As a Bernie supporter, I'm also upset about Seattle. As a Black Lives Matter supporter, I also think it makes their movement look bad. My kneejerk reaction was this might have been a Hillary operation. Someone thought this was GOP provocateurs. Either way it split #BLM from the social left and made them look bad. That was my kneejerk reaction.

But then I saw some of Bravenak's hidden posts. She was bringing the perspective there was some white supremacists among Bernie supporters. When I had asked in another thread what was going on in the actual #BLM thread, someone said that an apology to Bernie had been rescinded: that makes me curious. Perhaps Bravenak was trying to communicate something that was worth listening to. She made other remarks along the lines of how this could have been toned down at Netroots Nation and other ways Bernie could have handled Seattle. Seemed worth listening to rather than HIDING.

What a bunch of Jury Fails. And now Bravenak's account is Flagged for Review. Shouldn't we have some direct insight into the #BLM movement rather than labeling it as disruptive when POC don't say what we want them to be saying to us? Dang.

Is there any way to undo that decision?

Anyway, I still suspect that what happened in Seattle had some political operative prompting. It's just too convenient for Hillary. However, Bravenak's remarks about pockets of white supremacists coming out for Bernie gave me pause for thought -- especially after all the #AllLivesMatter dog whistles used by Hillary, O'Malley, AND Bernie. That hashtag is the dog whistle for a wealthy white supremacist elite who wouldn't regard itself as such - it just assumes white privilege is equivalent to universal and goes nuts pressuring politicians for reaffirmation if that idea is threatened. If that IS the issue, though, I'd question why #BLM is targeting Bernie rather than Hillary. I would like to have Bravenak here to ask.