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In reply to the discussion: Political Awareness Matters: How Black Lives Matter Are Screwing Themselves -- And the Rest of Us [View all]pnwmom
(108,959 posts)25. Did you miss this?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/bernie-sanders-black-lives-matter_55c68f14e4b0923c12bd197e
"Bernie, you were confronted at NetRoots at by black women," Johnson said. "You have yet to put out a criminal justice reform package like OMalley did."
Apparently O'Malley has managed to produce a package that passed muster, so the other candidates should be able to, too.
(Hillary hasn't been speaking in venues where this kind of disruption could happen, but she also needs to listen to BLM and produce such a package, if she hasn't already.)
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Political Awareness Matters: How Black Lives Matter Are Screwing Themselves -- And the Rest of Us [View all]
FourScore
Aug 2015
OP
Watching a particular segment of the Left trying to win the nomination while shitting all over
alcibiades_mystery
Aug 2015
#1
Yep. It's a political smear tactic against a candidate who cannot be attacked on any policy issue
GoneFishin
Aug 2015
#98
They're doing a pretty piss poor job of trying to make the case that we are "fake"...
cascadiance
Aug 2015
#60
Anybody who doesn't like being treated as a wartime enemy is a fake ally.
Nuclear Unicorn
Aug 2015
#75
I called a "follow the money" post out on another thread for this very reason.
6000eliot
Aug 2015
#7
The effects of the historic civil rights campaign in the sixties seems to have
Joe Chi Minh
Aug 2015
#62
No they don't. What I hear from them is STFU, we don't want to hear from you.
GoneFishin
Aug 2015
#99
Its a fair question, but they never allowed an answer. It was sit down and listen.
bahrbearian
Aug 2015
#124
Interesting that the discussion about BLM tactics has morphed into FK the Liberals Hmmm eom
LiberalElite
Aug 2015
#80
Reading the article through a certain lens, it suggests that people (the BLM movement) owe
KingCharlemagne
Aug 2015
#84
No one's listening, either. They made it clear what their goal is and you, among others, just ignored it. n/t
pnwmom
Aug 2015
#15
Obama has security around him that would prevent them from getting that close to him.
pnwmom
Aug 2015
#109
You think 3 women shouting and waving signs at whatever is the legal distance from the White House
pnwmom
Aug 2015
#116
They absolutely do. Just as white, upwardly mobile consumers do in every city.
Gravitycollapse
Aug 2015
#31
You've unwittingly demonstrated my point. They could institute rent control and other things...
Gravitycollapse
Aug 2015
#36
Hopefully, it will wake some of them up to their complicity in the white supremacist power structure
Gravitycollapse
Aug 2015
#43
More flowery tactics have clearly failed. So maybe something more radical is needed.
Gravitycollapse
Aug 2015
#61
The solution to gentrification is way too complex for me to fully comprehend...
Gravitycollapse
Aug 2015
#42
It's illegal in Washington State for any city to institute rent control measures.
JimDandy
Aug 2015
#125
There are three choices that I can see. Bernie can either develop a plan like O'Malley did,
pnwmom
Aug 2015
#105
Clinton hasn't been having this kind of event. She's been meeting with small groups of supporters
pnwmom
Aug 2015
#29
They tried. The protesters tussled with them. Sanders left, probably out of safety concerns. n/t
FourScore
Aug 2015
#35
The Seattle Times reported that the police offered to remove the protesters from the stage
pnwmom
Aug 2015
#113
Bernie was cornered by a radio host the day after Hillary said All Lives Matter
daredtowork
Aug 2015
#52
I saw that bravenak's reply to one of my posts got alerted on and hidden.
Erich Bloodaxe BSN
Aug 2015
#78
That the park would rather scream at a protest against the mass killing and incarceration...
Lancero
Aug 2015
#50
Who knows? Perhaps Hillary is doing something diffrient then Bernies campaign is?
Lancero
Aug 2015
#53
"We're being murdered in the streets and you haven't done a whole lot to help us up to now."
Gravitycollapse
Aug 2015
#67
Yes. I realise that, but I think Bernie would be by far the least compromised
Joe Chi Minh
Aug 2015
#76
And their tactics are saying "Don't do anything about it for at least 16 months"
jeff47
Aug 2015
#97
We need to all stand united, not divided. Otherwise, there is NO future for all of us! n/t
RKP5637
Aug 2015
#102