Welcome to DU!
The truly grassroots left-of-center political community where regular people, not algorithms, drive the discussions and set the standards.
Join the community:
Create a free account
Support DU (and get rid of ads!):
Become a Star Member
Latest Breaking News
General Discussion
The DU Lounge
All Forums
Issue Forums
Culture Forums
Alliance Forums
Region Forums
Support Forums
Help & Search
African American
In reply to the discussion: Anyone, and I mean ANYONE that doesn't think that #BLM will not disrupt Hillary is as stupid as they [View all]Starry Messenger
(32,342 posts)59. It's just a name, it's Twitter, with a core of Black posters who stay on top of issues
I can give you some names to start with, from there I find more people by following the discussions and the mentions.
https://twitter.com/FeministaJones
https://twitter.com/elonjames
https://twitter.com/Karnythia
https://twitter.com/amandlastenberg
https://twitter.com/janetmock
https://twitter.com/MHarrisPerry
Some media outlets:
https://twitter.com/TheRoot
https://twitter.com/ForHarriet
https://twitter.com/EBONYMag
I'm sure I'm leaving out lots. If you plug in the #BlackLivesMatter hashtag, you'll find more valuable input there too.
Edit history
Please sign in to view edit histories.
169 replies
= new reply since forum marked as read
Highlight:
NoneDon't highlight anything
5 newestHighlight 5 most recent replies
RecommendedHighlight replies with 5 or more recommendations
Anyone, and I mean ANYONE that doesn't think that #BLM will not disrupt Hillary is as stupid as they [View all]
Number23
Aug 2015
OP
His statement regarding the Seattle disruption isn't going to help him at all, imo...
Spazito
Aug 2015
#7
Sanders is tone deaf as hell on race issues. That's what all of the screaming, frothing and over the
Number23
Aug 2015
#12
Thank you for proving my point in the OP better than I could have done myself.
Number23
Aug 2015
#23
Walking off the stage is not the same as "conceding the mic" but go ahead and pretend that it is
Number23
Aug 2015
#85
They weren't looking for flies. They wanted media attention and they wanted people to
MADem
Aug 2015
#140
Tone deaf as hell? I'm having trouble listening to the song you're singing. He is responsive and
Ed Suspicious
Aug 2015
#30
Did you sing this same stupid song when this entire web site shit all over every thing that
Number23
Aug 2015
#38
You guys being "people that have never once seen fit to step a toe in the AA forum to discuss
Number23
Aug 2015
#93
Well, with a header with the word "stupid" in it, I don't think "discussion" is your main priority
villager
Aug 2015
#94
Yeah, there are so many posts in this forum with the word 'stupid' in it. That's why you've never
Number23
Aug 2015
#95
It's afternoon where I am and I tend to be hostile to people that are hostile to my community
Number23
Aug 2015
#98
It is. And I should have qualified that by saying that was the third post THAT I KNOW ABOUT that's
Number23
Aug 2015
#100
Black Americans can feel anyway they want about bernie.. it's not yours or anyone's place to tell
Cha
Aug 2015
#111
I have no idea what you're talking about or why you posted this is in this thread
Number23
Aug 2015
#71
As I clearly said in my OP, anyone that thinks that #BLM won't disrupt Hillary has no freaking clue
Number23
Aug 2015
#87
So much symbolism in that pic that applies! But you said HRC would be moonwalking:
freshwest
Aug 2015
#43
You are in the AA forum. Now, DU is full of mouth breathers that think that #BLM are PUMAs
Number23
Aug 2015
#9
Thank you. And thanks to jurors 1 and 5 who requested that people here STOP TRYING TO SHUT
Number23
Aug 2015
#70
"If it's lame, she'll know it."You got that right. They will make GOOD AND SURE that
Number23
Aug 2015
#10
His statement at NRN about "if you don't want me here after all I've done" was worse than storming
Number23
Aug 2015
#13
It was a paraphrase. But if you look at his remarks during the event, he said something like "I've
Number23
Aug 2015
#18
People who think BLM are Hillary supporters must just not follow any Black activists on social media.
Starry Messenger
Aug 2015
#16
They don't just NOT follow black activists, they don't follow black people PERIOD. Unless they are
Number23
Aug 2015
#20
It's just a name, it's Twitter, with a core of Black posters who stay on top of issues
Starry Messenger
Aug 2015
#59
I look forward to #BlackLivesMatter Protesting where Hillary speaks, 23.. Thank you!
Cha
Aug 2015
#25
Hilary's security is so tight that it will be next to impossible to disrupt her, or any of the
HoosierRadical
Aug 2015
#29
There are two links in the thread where she says whites should humble themselves to BLM and also a
freshwest
Aug 2015
#124
+1. Geezus Gawd, it sounds like somebody swallowed an Occupy manual & threw it up in here.
Tarheel_Dem
Aug 2015
#134
There are white people constantly doing the "shame on you for not lapping Sanders' toes after
Number23
Aug 2015
#41
It wasn't HRC who met with BLM . . . it was LaDavia Drane, HRC's black outreach director
Petrushka
Aug 2015
#105
Her Black outreach director met with BLM and others Black groups/leaders to get information.
lib87
Aug 2015
#106
It's only a grand for Sanders--but he's not pulling the same percentage of the vote, either.
MADem
Aug 2015
#143
And they are calling for help, FFS! White liberals are supposed to be their friends...
freshwest
Aug 2015
#159
He performed badly. Poorly. Terribly. Or whatever synonym for badly you prefer.
Number23
Aug 2015
#74
"Bernie Sanders Blew a Huge Opportunity at Netroots Nation" and this is from The Nation.. and all
Cha
Aug 2015
#104
Mock her all you want. It's all that's left of this smear, so milk it while you can.
arcane1
Aug 2015
#146
Well with one whole #BLM rep front and center, how could you NOT take her seriously??!
Number23
Aug 2015
#149
Since mocking well-meaning black people is your only response, I bid you good-day n/t
arcane1
Aug 2015
#150
It doesn't surprise me in the least that you think that I'm mocking the black person
Number23
Aug 2015
#151
I'll one up ya. If BLM only attacks Democrats, they are as stupid as they come.
BillZBubb
Aug 2015
#81
Barbara Jordan explained why the Democratic Party has a greater responsibility than the GOP:
freshwest
Aug 2015
#165
You aren't "one upping" anyone or anything.. "they are as stupid as they come".. says everything
Cha
Aug 2015
#110
No, she will not have any protester of any kind get that close to her, let alone push her around on
glowing
Aug 2015
#83
So they've protested her but that was mostly through Black Twitter, not in her face
Number23
Aug 2015
#148
Bb-but protesting the TPP is the work of enlightened, noble liberals! It's okay to interrupt speeche
Number23
Aug 2015
#157
Probably so ... So why come here to post ... you have the rest of DU ...
1StrongBlackMan
Aug 2015
#130
I don't see how since what you point out wasn't a disruption of anything and her "honesty"
TheKentuckian
Aug 2015
#162
Nor should they be any more than one would be that water is wet because it is like that
TheKentuckian
Aug 2015
#167