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10. I don't think we white folks should be telling the BLM folks how to run their movement.
Tue Aug 11, 2015, 12:05 PM
Aug 2015

If they want to go out and call Bernie Sanders the Grand Dragon of White Liberals or whatever nonsense they've cooked up that day, that's their right and as white folks shouldn't be giving them decorum lectures or offering advice on coalition building.

But, that doesn't mean white folks are required to take what they're saying seriously, or that it's impermissible to roll one's eyes and make the "cuckoo" gesture.

Police racism and violence are very serious issues, but that doesn't mean every person who puts #blacklivesmatter in their Tweets is some kind of insightful leader entitled to respect and reverence.

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