2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Well, I see we've gone full on marginalizing BLM again [View all]emsimon33
(3,128 posts)If BLM keeps this up, they may actually suppress AA voters in 2016 with the Republicans winning the White House. If African Americans feel their lives have been hell up until now, just wait until the White Supremacists take over the government at all levels.
Also, from what I have seen of the BLM interrupters, there is no "engaging" them in any rational discourse. I do not believe this of the movement itself. But those who have seized the movement to silence Bernie are doing the movement serious harm and I feel pity for them. The two in Seattle come off as twits but the one now appears to be a "burn the place" down activist.
The tragedy that African Americans have every right to fear the police, that African American parents watch their children leave the house not knowing if they will return alive--these
horrors must be addressed. If it means profiling police and firing those who are racists, then so be it. If it means firing all police on all police forces and starting over with higher standards and better criteria, then so be it. This murder MUST stop. However, silencing Bernie only undermines their cause.
Bill Clinton was no friend to the African American community. Obama has not been much better. As long as we have corporate-controlled candidates, the murder will continue and the suppression and marginalization of African Americans will not end. Bernie is not controlled by corporations yet he is the target of BLM. Why should he engage them? His record speaks for itself. You can not engage ideologues in meaningful debate and the BLMers interrupting Bernie's speeches are ideologues.