2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: "Interrupting Bernie: Exposing the White Supremacy of the American Left" [View all]freshwest
(53,661 posts)That kind of disruption was necessary because all the marches and protests did not get it addressed. So they blocked traffic! It was inconvenient! How dare they do that!
And the issues brought up the other day are REAL ones, the 'forget school, send those kids to that jail school being built;' POC getting long jail terms for what others don't do time; driven out of their own neighborhoods for what may be rich liberals, to areas where there are no jobs for them, their places where they had their own support systems.
It goes on and on. Just because people want to deny it, outright, in the face racism is going on. The beatings and killings continue. For POC it's an emergency, it's a call for 911!
But everyone wants them to wait their turn, when it's possible they won't be around to get their turn. This is what is going on, and they have a right to speak and will do it in a disorderly way if orderly means don't work. They're Democrats, they've been faithful allies, have voted and not been heard.
So yes, they'll go outside the system, they have to do it, just like OWS did, just like unions have had to do, like anti-war people done. And they will hold their party responsible. After all, they are half of it.