Another perspective on BLM/Bernie

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12. Marissa's mother is white

And she had white allies helping her at the disruption. So she wasn't calling all white people racist or white supremacists. She was specifically calling the "liberals" of Seattle who claimed to be running a progressive city, but who continued to ignore a number of discriminatory features of their policies "white supremacist liberals".

As to whether the people in the audience or the people who want to get Bernie Sanders elected are considered "allies" or not - this is something BLM seems to be continually questioning/challenging. They are doing what they are doing: we can opine whether it "works" or not, but their agenda is not to get Bernie Sanders, or any other candidate elected - it is to achieve a list of certain non-negotiable short-term goals.

These tactics are very much like the (non-MLK) Civil Rights Movement as conducted by youth. And the same time period also included a lot of outright rioting such as Watts, and a lot of comfortable middle class people advising on what will not work, how to properly organize, and how insiders negotiate. This is a very interesting rerun of history.