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Showing Original Post only (View all)BLM Activist Who Shut Down Sanders is Radical Christian, Sarah Palin Supporter [View all]
Why am I not surprised?One of the Black Lives Matter activists who shut down the Bernie Sanders rally in Seattle is a self-identified radical Christian and former Sarah Palin supporter.
Marissa Jenae Johnson along with another protester, Mara Jacqueline, interrupted the planned Seattle rally for Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders on Saturday afternoon, preventing the Vermont senator from addressing the massive crowd.
The rally at Westlake Park ended around 3 p.m. with Sanders choosing to leave after the belligerent protesters took the stage and stayed there, controlling the microphone, and hurling racist insults at the progressive crowd gathered to hear Sanders speak.
After disrupting the Sanders event and taking the microphone, a hostile and obnoxious Johnson accused the audience of white supremacist liberalism before telling the Seattle crowd:
Marissa Jenae Johnson along with another protester, Mara Jacqueline, interrupted the planned Seattle rally for Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders on Saturday afternoon, preventing the Vermont senator from addressing the massive crowd.
The rally at Westlake Park ended around 3 p.m. with Sanders choosing to leave after the belligerent protesters took the stage and stayed there, controlling the microphone, and hurling racist insults at the progressive crowd gathered to hear Sanders speak.
After disrupting the Sanders event and taking the microphone, a hostile and obnoxious Johnson accused the audience of white supremacist liberalism before telling the Seattle crowd:
I was going to tell Bernie how racist this city is with all of its progressives but youve already done that for me. Thank you.
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BLM Activist Who Shut Down Sanders is Radical Christian, Sarah Palin Supporter [View all]
Feeling the Bern
Aug 2015
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BLM would be wise to eject this leader of the HBLM* from their organiziation.
A Simple Game
Aug 2015
#27
Her views and affiliations don't invalidate the (apparent) main point, by any means.
nomorenomore08
Aug 2015
#13
As though Xian fundie blacks cannot participate in BLM, do not think black lives matter,
AlbertCat
Aug 2015
#18
I would've voted for Gore in 2000, if I'd been old enough. I've voted in every Pres. election since.
nomorenomore08
Aug 2015
#15
my political knowledge and awareness at 16, was barely a fraction of what it is now.
AlbertCat
Aug 2015
#20
Totally agree. She may have some valid points somewhere, but she's clearly a bizarre human being. nt
nomorenomore08
Aug 2015
#37
Your classic "low-information voter," perhaps? In addition to her youth and (perhaps) naivete?
nomorenomore08
Aug 2015
#38
Lets see if the rwingers try to pull this trick again; twice now, going for a third?
Dont call me Shirley
Aug 2015
#44