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30. I am in Phoenix and I want to share my thoughts on this.

I am also bi-racial and fully support BlackLivesMatter.

I support social protests. I love that they did this especially at Netroots Nation. What I didn't like was that both Sanders and O'Malley were more than willing to dialogue, and the protesters would not stop.

I think Sanders handled it better than O'Malley. He was not there to address one issue alone so off the cuff, he spoke truths. O'Malley unfortunately chose to say all lives matter which does piss off those of us who support this. Of course, all lives matter but when a disproportionate amount of young black men and women are being killed by the police, it is important to address that head on.

Sanders spoke more in his later speech about this problem and received a huge round of applause and standing ovation for his statement about holding this police officers fully accountable for their actions. And this crowd was hugely diverse. Hell, some of the early morning protesters were there.

Now was this a setup? I think that Elon James knew this was going to happen and did nothing to warn his fellow organizers of NN that it was coming. So it did broadside them. I think the hosts handled it the worst of all.

I am a bit perplexed why they chose this particular event alone and frankly I would not be at all surprised if the Clinton campaign was involved. People will scream this is a conspiracy theory. Yeah, I fully admit it, and it is simply my informed opinion. But the timing and the way it was done begs some questions.

If and when I see BlackLivesMatter activists at the next Clinton Town Hall protesting and at all six debates disrupting things, then I will believe this was the start of a valid protest movement raising awareness among allies this campaign season. Of course I am an old school activist. I think that attacking your allies instead of your enemies is a rather stupid way of getting your goals met, and it tends to back fire. But hey, like I said, I don't do Post New Left liberalism.

If they are going to do this, then fucking do this. Go to as many Town Halls and protests. Do this with ALL candidates including the queen apparent. Do this at each and every one of the primary debates. Mount a massive protest at the Democratic convention next summer. But if this was it and only it, well, it was poorly planned and executed. It will make them look bad, not the candidates. And it doesn't help Clinton a damned bit. Not after the speech Sanders just gave tonight to close to 12,000 people in Phoenix fucking Arizona!