Marissa Johnson: a generation of activists who believe in disruption

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52. with all due respect I have a serious question for you

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Have you ever been a victim of a crime but afraid to call the police, because you are as or more afraid of them than you were of the criminal, I ask because I have, and here I'll give you a couple of past posts to clarify exactly where I'm coming from for you

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1170297#post2


http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2776890#2777541

about the second post the shootings sadly were not police shootings, they were someone got sold a sliver of dial soap for $25 shootings, but there were families trapped up in the middle of that Black families-families who knew like mine the police considered them guilty too

and to be very clear I'm an OWL that's old white lady

all needed to be said before I go on the rant I am about to, yes Black Lives Matter however the way Marrisa Jenae Johnson and Mara Jacqeline Willaford handled the Seattle SS rally was terrible and I'll agree they may well have done BLM more harm than good in that arena, I've watched the tapes they were going okay until Marrisa Johnson called the entire crowd racists, moments after she got the silence she'd asked for, that was the breaking point I'll admit I wondered if she was trying to incite the crowd, and the guy running the rally decided to shut it down, not Bernie as we've been told . As to Bernie the look on his face at that moment said to me he was saying to himself "f*ck it" and IMO for most observers it had stopped being about #BLM and at that point and all about Marrisa.

now concerning Bravenak and the goings on in general, I like her I've been on I/P a compatriot of hers, and yes she tends ti be outspoken , all that said, what happened last week leading to her time was not IMO a targeted operation to silence a Black voice by Bernie supporters or anyone else for that matter-she was in full tilt melt down period I'll say that 4 hides was excessive if I had been on the juries, I wasn't on line at the time, 2 of them I would have voted to hide and 2 I would not have-she still would have been on time out just not for as long, I also think had this been DU2 she well have wound up ppred had she kept going in vein she was in, because back then the mods had that power.. And giftedgirl77 when someone denigrates the relationship of a Jew to the Holocaust by saying Bernie wouldn't have known his family members that died there anyway so it was n't all that much, you're speaking to large segment of Jewish DUers who also had family they may well never have known die in the Holocaust too, and not in a good way either, I do not think that was silencing a Black voice either I wasn't even aware she is Black , and I've read the alert I do not think it was a Bernie supporter, I've got a good idea of who it may well have been and this person hasn't that I am aware iof proclaimed support for any candidate