Elon James White and Imani Gandy Interview Marissa Janae Johnson. Very Illuminating. Thoughts?

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59. Thanks for posting, although some of the replies here ...

suggest that they were posted by people who didn't bother to actually listen to the interview.

I appreciate your attempt to make it easy for the lazy ones by summarizing it. Unfortunately, though, this appears to have resulted in some misinterpretations.


Regarding her 'religious extremism', for instance, the context makes it very clear that she is joking. The punchline that she could be labelled a 'Christian extremist' is clearly meant to be ironic:

'I do wanna say I AM a very devout Christian, I have been, that's well documented and people who know me locally and nationally in my organizing work know that that is why and what I do.

And so, yes, I did run up there and confronted Sanders because of my religious conviction - absolutely. Are they right-wing religious? (Laughs) NO ... but they're religious in the sense that my religion says "You lay down your life for other people ... and the most marginalized" and so that's what I do.

So, yes, I guess I AM a Christian extremist (snickers).'

Likewise, when she responds to the question 'why not Hillary' and states something to the effect that Clinton's record re Blacks is better than Obama's, the reaction is LOUD LAUGHTER by the interviewers. Obviously, everybody present agrees, as is explained during the interview, that the point of the protest action was to achieve public attention, and the attention of ALL democratic contenders, not to punish or hurt anyone and especially not Sanders.


Finally, she did not call everyone at the gathering 'white supremacists', she reacted to those who were screaming and shouting at her, calling for the police to taser her and so forth. What she says she stands by is the following statement:

'Anybody who hears me say that and thinks about their feelings first is a white supremacist.'

Seems completely sane and straighforward to me.