Marathon Organizers Respond To Black Lives Matter Plans

[branford]

174. No, people ignore them because they pull stupid, narcissitic stunts unrelated to the cause

they claim to support.

More importantly, when they're ultimately dragged-off by the police for interfering with the marathon, they will be reinforcing the worst stereotypes of the African-American community, all while the vast, vast majority of the American people, locally and nationwide, cheer on the police officers for doing a great job.

Think about the fact that a majority of the people on a Democratic and very liberal forum don't approve of disrupting the marathon. What do you believe will be the reaction of the wider population of Democrats and Independents, to say nothing of Republicans?

You can try to rationalize the ends justifying the means, but when the means are unconnected politically to issue, as is the marathon is to issues of race or law enforcement, it simply become an exercise in extremely counterproductive self-aggrandizement.

The best thing I can say about the idea to disrupt the marathon is that the optics might be slightly better than the widely played video of the BLM march with the participants chanting "“pigs in a blanket, fry ’em like bacon.”

http://www.twincities.com/crime/ci_28900127/if-black-lives-matter-disrupts-twin-cities-marathon