2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Black Lives Matter! Period. Therefore I Have Altered my Primary Intentions. [View all]cascadiance
(19,537 posts)... and support a democratic process to decide who represents this party, and the people by doing so.
Now, if you are going to judge all Bernie Sanders supporters by the actions of a few, who you don't even clarify what their problematic behavior is, can't you see how that is just as some who wish to judge all of BLM members by a few that basically are in effect calling all white people "white supremacists" by calling Bernie's followers that. I don't think you want that. And I think most Bernie Sanders supporters like me are wanting to believe that most BLM supporters are truly about supporting a movement that we are all behind and needs our support as well as theirs. We're holding off judging the whole movement and don't want to judge them all based on the CHILDISH actions of a few that claim to represent them. I'm just hoping that others from BLM have the wisdom and sense of leadership to express again what the true goals of the BLM movement is, and that straying from that in to personal attacks on those who might otherwise support them are actions that they can't support or endorse for the whole movement.
The day that happens, many of us all will feel a lot more comfortable siding with those that we still believe want to work with us, but perhaps don't have a voice speaking for them yet. The longer that takes, the harder it is for many to speak in support of BLM in general, even if we want heavily to do so. Instead the more immediate reaction has been that some try to shut down those that are trying to offer that sort of leadership, like that person that offered an apology to try to put a better face on the movement who actually should have been praised, even if he/she was acknowledged not to be an official "voice" of the movement, with an acknowledgement that he/she actually spoke for so many that supported his/her actions. That would have shown to me a movement that's trying to take the right path, even if some of those that are claiming to be a part of it are trying to diverge that path in to destructive territory. It would tell me that there are hopefully those that will seek to have more power over its direction to not let it diverge in those ways. I and many supporting Bernie I think would be happy to move forward with actions like that.