Why is black lives matter targetting Sanders and not the GOP?

[Westcoastnative]

I was wrong, I forgot all about what Bernie was doing for black people.

My bad everyone.

 

[Regular_P]

Shameful shyt

 

[Pifferry]

I was wrong, I forgot all about what Bernie was doing for black people.

My bad everyone.

And then people in thread are acting like he needs to be called out for being out of touch today and that all he's done was done in the 60's when he's always been against the things that were bad for black America and has very reasonable opinions on race in America.
You don't call out your allies like this you have a conversation with them.

 

[88m3]

Thread needs more facts and I'm no exactly a Clinton fan

 

[Type Username Here]

Soros making that money stretch long like pippen arms

 

[Jerz-2]

something isnt adding up....

I'm sayin...like, let's all act like COINTELPRO never existed, like Black people weren't used as pawns against each other by subversive government plants.

The stupidity of America always amazes me...but it's the short-sightedness and complete lack of historical perspective that TRULY pisses me off.

 

[Mikael Blowpiff]

Hilary hasn't really had any public events that can be hijacked or interrupted. She's an abysmal human being but she's not stupid enough to repeat the same mistakes she made in 08. She's at least smart enough to limit her access for the time being.

 

[Truth200]

I'm sayin...like, let's all act like COINTELPRO never existed, like Black people weren't used as pawns against each other by subversive government plants.

The stupidity of America always amazes me...but it's the short-sightedness and complete lack of historical perspective that TRULY pisses me off.

These women are insane with no ability to be objective or rational...

 

[Madvillain]

failing to see how it matters that she supported the GOP in high school in '08... the grooming comment is a reach, and only suggests she's matured politically. I was a Democrat in high school in 2010 and didn't formally register as unaffiliated until a few months ago. Now I'm a communist. Does that invalidate any activism I take part in?
not to mention how confusing the attempts to try to match that with calling her an anarchist who reads Glen Ford pieces are
I need more receipts before I buy in

 

[Miff]

Black Lives Matter Seattle posted this to their facebook page

facebook.com/BLMSeattle/posts/716844418437393

PRESS RELEASE: Black Lives Matter Seattle ‪#‎BowDownBernie‬ Action

MEDIA CONTACTS: Marissa Johnson (360) 840-6234 blacklivesmatterseattle@gmail.com

Black Lives Matter Seattle organizers and supporters take over Bernie Sanders’ rally at Westlake on Saturday, August 8, 2015.

Today BLM Seattle, with the support of other Black organizers and non-Black allies and accomplices, held Bernie Sanders publicly accountable for his lack of support for the Black Lives Matter movement and his blatantly silencing response to the ‪#‎SayHerName‬ ‪#‎IfIDieInPoliceCustody‬ action that took place at Netroots this year.

Bernie’s arrival in Seattle is largely significant in the context of the state of emergency Black lives are in locally as well as across America. The Seattle Police Department has been under federal consent decree for the last three years and has been continually plagued by use-of-force violations and racist scandals amongst their rank and file. Seattle Mayor Ed Murray has refused to push any reform measures for police accountability, not even the numerous recommendations of his self-appointed Community Police Commission. The Seattle School District suspends Black students at a rate six times higher than their white counterparts, feeding Black children into the school-to-prison pipeline. King County has fought hard to push through a plan to build a $210 million new youth jail to imprison these children, amid intense community criticism and dissent. The Central District, a historically Black neighborhood in Seattle, has undergone rapid gentrification over the past few decades, with Black people being displaced from the only neighborhood that we could legally live in until just years ago. While white men profit off of the legalization of marijuana, our prisons are still filled with Black people who are over-incarcerated for drug offenses.

This city is filled with white progressives, which is why Bernie Sanders’ camp was obviously expecting a friendly and consenting audience for today’s campaign visit. The problem with Sanders’, and with white Seattle progressives in general, is that they are utterly and totally useless (when not outright harmful) in terms of the fight for Black lives. While we are drowning in their liberal rhetoric, we have yet to see them support Black grassroots movements or take on any measure of risk and responsibility for ending the tyranny of white supremacy in our country and in our city. This willful passivity while claiming solidarity with the ‪#‎BlackLivesMatter‬ movement in an effort to be relevant is over. White progressive Seattle and Bernie Sanders cannot call themselves liberals while they participate in the racist system that claims Black lives. Bernie Sanders will not continue to call himself a man of the people, while ignoring the plight of Black people. Presidential candidates will not win Black votes without putting out an explicit criminal justice reform package. As was said at the Netroots action, presidential candidates should expect to be shut down and confronted every step along the way of this presidential campaign. Black people are in a state of emergency. Lines have been drawn in the sand. You are either fighting continuously and measurably to protect Black life in America, or you are a part of the white supremacist system that we will tear down in the liberation of our people.

On this, nearly the one year anniversary of the ruthless murder of Mike Brown, we honor Black lives lost by doing the unthinkable, the unapologetic, and the unrespectable. Out of radical love for our Black brothers and sisters, we put our lives and our bodies on the line to testify to their persecution and resilience. We join together in Black love to #SayHerName and declare that #BlackLivesMatter, understanding that our love will disrupt the complicity and corruption of our anti-Black society; GOP, Democrat, and otherwise.

There is no business as usual while Black lives are lost. We will ensure this by any means necessary.

With the strength of our ancestors and for the future of our children,

Black Lives Matter Seattle Co-Founders

Marissa Johnson and Mara Willaford

#BowDownBernie
#SayHerName
#IfIDieInPoliceCustody
‪#‎NotOneMoreDeportation‬
‪#‎FreePalestine‬
‪#‎MikeBrown‬
#BlackLivesMatter

I still don't know about ole girl and the Sarah Palin button. That shyts not a good look

 

[afterlife2009]

failing to see how it matters that she supported the GOP in high school in '08

that was 3 weeks ago

 

[Madvillain]

that was 3 weeks ago

"This woman has known me since high school, back when I had a Sarah Palin button on backpack....we been thru a lot."

What was 3 weeks ago was her reminiscing, not her being affiliated.

 

[Brown_Pride]

there's a right way and a wrong way to do shyt. This is the wrong way.

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

They won't even dare do this shyt to Hilary

 

[godkiller]

This ruined everything!