Agitators from Black Lives Matter broke up another Sanders rally today

[pscot]

This one in Seattle. They marched in with banners, seized the microphone and took over the stage., effectively ending the event. Who's putting them up to this? Why don't they want Bernie to speak?

http://www.kirotv.com/news/news/social-security-medicare-rally-featuring-sen-berni/nnGDm/

[BooScout]

1. Do keep up.....

It's all Hillary's fault.....unless you're over in General Discussion, in which case it's all a plot by Rove.

[BainsBane]

2. I officially disavow any association

with any DUers or white "progressives" who dump on Black Lives Matter.

[pscot]

3. Do you disavow what they did this afternoon?

[BainsBane]

4. Absolutely not

I support their protests because I believe their cause is essential, and anyone who thinks one politician is more important than those lives is not someone who can claim to be leftist, progressive or a liberal.

I disavow people who claim BLM needs to sit down and shut up because Bernie and his supporters are their allies. Clearly you and others like you are not their allies. You have made clear you see them and their cause as far less important than the comfort--this is what we are talking about, simple comfort--of one politician.

I disavow white people who show callous disregard for the epidemic of violence against black people. I stand with social justice, racial equality and human life over white entitlement. I am ashamed to have any association, if only by accident of posting on the same message board or sharing the same skin color, with people who advance such views.

You want to proclaim Black Lives Matter the enemy, then you also make me your enemy. I will stand with social justice over crap like this any and every day of my life. That is what it means to be a leftist, to care about justice, human dignity, and equality.

[pscot]

7. I get the idea that being declared your enemy

is just not all that special.

[SonderWoman]

5. "Agitators"?

[MineralMan]

6. "Outside Agitators?"

Why does that expression ring a bell? Oh, yeah...I remember that, from the civil rightsn movement times. The racists used that expression constantly. I thought those days were done...

[Cheese Sandwich]

8. They aren't "from" black lives matter. They just use that hashtag.

Anybody can use it. It's like #occupy. A decentralized movement with completely autonomous actors. Anybody can do anything and then claim to be "from" blackLivesMatter. These are hundreds of different small local groups.

[Recursion]

9. Did you actually say "agitators"?

Do you have any idea of the history of the word, particularly in this context?

[pscot]

10. I know what the word means

and how it's been used. It was a deliberate choice. It's kind of an ugly word but what happened today was ugly.

[irisblue]

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ALERTER'S COMMENTS

"Agitators" was the term used specifically by white supremacists in the 1950s and 1960s. Both George Wallace and Ross Barnett attributed civil rights demonstrations to "outside agitators". When called on the racist history of the word and it inappropriateness for the context, the OP doubled down on it.

Furthermore, people of color do not need to be "put up" to activism by a (white) Svengali.

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