Charlie Pierce comments on BLM protest at Bernie's event

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60. I didn't say that and I didn't imply that.

I have a pretty good idea what it takes to get the average white person to listen to a racial message and what will almost always turn them off. After all, some of my best friends are white people.

To me the greatest and most effective black advocates of the past century were MLK and Thurgood Marshall. They didn't hijack rallies and call the whites there "white supremacists". They didn't say "bow down". They used the force of reason and an appealed to even the rednecks with their emphasis on fairness and decency. Their approach worked and led to great advances.

When white people saw how black people were treated in Selma, Little Rock et al, the vast majority of them knew it was wrong. MLK knew how to win people over. He succeeded.

What the leaders, or self-appointed leaders, of BLM are doing is counter-productive to their stated goals. They are using the tactics of many failed movements of the past.

If you don't understand why I say that, then there isn't much for us to talk about.