White progressives get a taste of anger & frustration as #BlackLivesMatter activists upstage Bernie

[jeff47]

132. Uh, both Sanders and O'Malley have been addressing it.

Sanders talked about it the previous night. And several other times during this campaign. Heck, Sanders has a lovely speech on the floor of Congress in 1991, when "get tough on crime" was ascendant saying that this was a bad idea and would fuck over PoC. Back when such a stand was politically unpopular.

O'Malley started his time in Baltimore with the same tough-on-crime bullshit, and has since had a change of heart. That he has talked about repeatedly.

In fact, both of their "canned speeches" include it. Both have released specific plans for what they want to do.

You know who hasn't interrupted their canned speech to offer more than platitudes, and has not released anything specific? Clinton. Where's your shouting at her?

You know who could actually do something about it TODAY? Obama, Lynch and everyone else in the Obama administration. Where's your shouting at them?

Many black folks will NEVER achieve "economic justice" with heavy handed police tactics in our cities

You won't get social justice alone. Without economic justice, economic oppression replaces racial oppression. Not to mention racism is being used as a tool by the wealthy to keep poor whites from rebelling against them, so the social justice battle is much, much harder without a simultaneous economic battle.

You wave a magic wand and remove economic oppression. Black people are still being shot and otherwise criminally repressed.

You wave a magic wand and remove racism. You still can't get a decent job. You still can't get decent housing. You still can't get a living wage. Because poverty still takes those away.

We need both. Working on either one alone means we lose on both. Fortunately, we aren't morons and can work on both at the same time.