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In reply to the discussion: Elon James White and Imani Gandy Interview Marissa Janae Johnson. Very Illuminating. Thoughts? [View all]TM99
(8,352 posts)I am sorry but they start out with factual errors and then go straight to the bullshit.
This was NOT a Sander's rally. He was invited to speak with others at a rally celebrating the anniversary of Social Security and Medicare. The crowd was not specifically there to hear him speak. Another BLM representative gave an earlier speech but apparently they are not all on the same page with regards to facts, motives, and action.
So when the crowd gets upset about the disruption and boo's, they are now a Ku Klux Klan rally!? What in the living fuck. "I am serious" Imani says. I can not take seriously someone who compares a displeased & diverse crowd of progressives to a Klan rally. The Greensboro massacre in my home state is a real example of what happens with Klansmen!
I definitely am turned off and do not trust Marissa. She was a fundamentalist and retains the thinking and narcissism of one even though she has moved from the far right to now to the far left. She is a violent extremist. Yet, fundamentalists are always authoritarians. 'This is the only way', they yell. So how can you 'show people the possibilities outside of the system they are stuck in' when you are stuck in your own system? You simply can't. It is just an inner conflict made outer.
That Black Lives Matter accepts and allows such a disturbed young woman to be a spokesperson or leader is an affront to civil rights activism. Attacking Sanders because he is accessible where Clinton is not is just cowardice. That others are able to rationalize this appalling behavior from an immature and quite frankly disturbed individual as representative of this movement is as disgusting as it is tragic. Do this kind of shit long enough, call enough 'white progressives' Klansmen, and the focus becomes these twits and NOT the actual lives of our community at this present time.