2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Holy, are there people here seriously defending BLM Seattle's actions!?? What's wrong with you? [View all]brush
(61,033 posts)BLM is not a centralized movement with national officers and a chain of command. It's much like the Occupy movement was in that respect.
There are people involved all over the country and they are probably just as aghast as most of us are over the illogical protest in Seattle and are scrambling to figure out what to do.
You seem too ready to think that what happened in Seattle is reflective of a movement that we all watched grow organically out of Ferguson instead of the out of control megalomania of a person who, it was recently reported, was a Palin supporter wishing the GOP had groomed her properly.
You must be kind of new to the game. Most of the protest organizations from earlier times were beset with infiltrators, agent provocateurs, spotlight-seekers and Cointelpro. BLM is no different.
Do you really think those people that were putting their lives on the line confronting tanks and swat teams in the streets are backing continual protests of Bernie Sanders, or even thinking about such a no-win tactic?
Don't fall for the okie doke.