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In reply to the discussion: So, Sanders goes to an AA church, and they don't fall heads-over-heels for him [View all]sahel
(87 posts)54. I am honestly very surprised
at this statement:-
You are incorrect about my assessment of BDS. While I certainly find aspects of it to be anti-Semitic, I have never said it was anti-Semitic as a movement.
and I have to say, I think that many others would be surprised too. Even Norman Finkelstein, no advocate for Israel, has said that he considers BDS to have more than a whiff of anti-semitism about it. And this is Norman Finkelstein we're talking about.
and give one example, this is, again, not sufficient to make the claim you did and, therefore, assumes "facts into evidence" which aren't really facts
I can give you the names of at least eleven more BLM reps that support a boycott against Israel - including Willaford and Johnson, the two women that memorably confronted Sanders at the rally in Seattle and criticized him for, amongst other things, his support for the state of Israel. How many more names would you like?
http://www.blackforpalestine.com/view-the-signatories.html
As an aside, this is from Alicia Garza, a founder of BLM and the very first woman to utter the immortal phrase "Black Lives Matter":-
"Permanent war and lawless gangsterism to protect and advance U.S. global economic and political interests was codified in the National Security Strategy (NSS) issued by President Bush on Sept. 21, 2002.
And while the pursuit of that strategy made President Bush the symbol of U.S. arrogance and generated vociferous liberal and progressive opposition, Barack Obama has faithfully carried out that very same neocon strategy becoming the smiling brown face of U.S. polices as morally repugnant as his predecessor but without progressive, popular opposition."
And while the pursuit of that strategy made President Bush the symbol of U.S. arrogance and generated vociferous liberal and progressive opposition, Barack Obama has faithfully carried out that very same neocon strategy becoming the smiling brown face of U.S. polices as morally repugnant as his predecessor but without progressive, popular opposition."
http://www.ajamubaraka.com/tag/from-ferguson-to-palestine/
Could you imagine someone posting such a scathing critique of Obama (on this site, for example) and not being piled on by the exact same people who so readily embrace "Black Lives Matter" and who at the same time work assiduously to reduce it to some kind of feel-good middle-class bumper sticker statement to be generously plastered on the swaggering ass of the Democratic Party establishment?
I can't.
I'm a white guy, and it depresses even me. Truly, what the bastards can't destroy they turn into a commodity for sale.
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So, Sanders goes to an AA church, and they don't fall heads-over-heels for him [View all]
lunamagica
Feb 2016
OP
"I hope you will understand". Well, I don't, and apparently neither did the congregation.
Tarheel_Dem
Feb 2016
#60
We certainly do, and shouldn't have to face interrogation from pissed off BS'ers for those choices.
Tarheel_Dem
Feb 2016
#63
I got a PM asking a long list of questions from a Hillary supporter. Am I being interrogated?
thereismore
Feb 2016
#64
It's your "choice" to respond to the long list or not. I love "choices". Don't you?
Tarheel_Dem
Feb 2016
#65
Your question can't be answered because you make assuptions and then expect an answer.
Behind the Aegis
Feb 2016
#50
These people are FUMING that their insults, threats and brow beating didn't make black folks
Number23
Feb 2016
#35
I'll just bet they are, lunamagica.. It could never be that bernie just isn't that appealing to
Cha
Feb 2016
#45
I suspect that he would if he were up against the Clintons in a presidential primary
sahel
Feb 2016
#56
They need look no further than his AA colleagues in Congress. No CT's required. BS has the...
Tarheel_Dem
Feb 2016
#59