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In reply to the discussion: Thom Hartman joins number of white progressives slamming those criticizing #BLM [View all]BumRushDaShow
(128,703 posts)earlier this week that the other progressive talkers need to do this as he (Joe) was the only one pointing out the point of "protest" and "agitate".
In 1964, when Fannie Lou Hamer challenged the all-white delegation from Mississippi to the 1964 DNC convention on behalf of the Mississippi SNCC chapter, where she and others founded the "Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party" in order to push for recognition of the black population there (where then and now, the state has the largest percentage of blacks in the population - near 40%), all hell broke loose all the way up to the Johnson level, where Johnson declared her to be "that illiterate woman" (not unlike the nonsensical DU diatribes railing against "politically uninformed blacks" in reference to those who don't support or have any opinion about Sanders). By the 1968 election, the platform was changed to allow diversity while the bigots left in droves to populate the GOP.
On DU, these are the same ones who railed against Brittany Newsome, who climbed the flagpole in front of the SC State Capitol building and took down the Confederate flag. But guess what? The flag is gone and is being removed state by state around the country. Yet they cheered on Occupy for interrupting an Obama speech while protesting "banksters". BLM is protesting literal murders of our black men, women, and children by LEOs.
So good on the real "progressives" for calling out the hypocrisy.