I'm going to drop this here...

[OneGrassRoot]

96. Here is my perspective...

for what it's worth. We can each look at the same events and come away with completely different interpretations. I'm leaning toward chalking that up to us simply having different, unique personality types. We respond to things differently.

So, I do believe they chose that event because Sanders is getting coverage -- at the time specifically within progressive media and circles...the very audience most likely supportive of the cause of #BlackLivesMatter. Certainly all disruptive protests aim to be heard by as many people as possible and nowadays that megaphone can be amplified exponentially with social media, which influences more traditional media coverage.

However, the way I perceived what was said was that it was aimed very specifically at Seattle residents. Seattle is, quite frankly, a very white city. It is known to be progressive, but it really isn't a racially diverse city.

But that really doesn't matter to me. #BlackLivesMatter isn't an organization -- it's a cause, a message, a principle...and some advocates of the principle of racial justice are going to disrupt in ways some of us aren't comfortable with.

The difference is, for whatever reasons (again, I'm leaning toward personality type -- not good or bad, mind you), some were personally offended (whether in that Seattle audience or not) and it has led to a morass of indignation, while others took no offense at all even if we weren't completely comfortable with how two women -- only two women, mind you -- expressed their anger in an attempt to be heard.

I don't want to tell people to move on, not with all this animosity imbued in our interactions. I really want to work through it in order to collaborate more passionately, together.

How, I don't know....