2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Let me know how this "harass Black people into voting for Sanders" campaign is working for y'all [View all]artislife
(9,497 posts)Which still be what you mean. But I have come to understand there is a lot of blocking going on. I am new to this site...
But my OP piece that I wrote on Monday was about Those who are willing to listen to the BLM Grievences and as follows
Please.
I cannot be the only Bernie supporter who thinks that Bernie can handle being heckled.
That Bernie is willing and wanting to hear the grievances of BLM and work toward a good end.
My belief is that the protest was about the protest. Not about Bernie or Martin specifically, but about candidates who would fight along side them. Asking "What's her name?" is one way to see if they are connected to a population that is being mowed down by law enforcement and civilians alike and those murderers not being held accountable.
If you go to Yahoo and read any news article about a death of a Black person, the comments alone should make you weep.
We have to get past trying to protect Bernie, he's got himself covered.
We need to get in line a protect our brothers and sisters of color.
Sttttoooooppppp,
I know there are other deaths.....but this is systematized genocide. We can put our efforts here, without taking away from other murder victims. You know if you have more than one child, they are not splitting a finite amount of love.
Please comment if you are listening or ready to listen.
On the whole, I got replies from people who were willing to listen or already were. But I was puzzled that there were few self described AA in the comments. That really underscored how few there are here on DU..or actively so. There was a run of "Oh woe is me, my feelings are hurt, HURT, I say because...blah blah blah.
So I posted this for you in case, you couldn't read it to show that all the knee jerk reactions to NN wasn't the most vocal ones.