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In reply to the discussion: ‘None of this looks good': Cenk Uygur rips #BlackLivesMatter protest against Sanders and O’Malley [View all]jwirr
(39,215 posts)as you know it did hurt everyone but Hillary. Yes, he is still getting huge crowds but now we are seen as "the white candidate". We do not have a Barrack Obama this year - the candidates are all white - unless you want to vote for Jindal, Rubio or Carson.
Are you at all worried about economic issues? My mixed racial family is. We are worried about a lot of things. And yes we are very worried about Black Lives Matter because that is us. But on the other hand we do not see how making corporations more powerful is going to help any of us.
BTW I am not angry about the BLM protest. This issue needs to be kept front and center because it is the difference between life or death for too many black men and women as we have seen with Sandra Bland.
And I am not sure that dialog is going to help much because the issue is well known - racism, hate and police violence is in the news everyday. The problem is well defined. I think the elected leaders - those already in office need to get together NOW (President Obama, the Black caucuses, the Progressive caucuses, community leaders, etc.) and come up with a comprehensive solution to this issue. It is the plan to solve this problem that is missing. And because this is a complex issue it is not going to be easy to create this plan nor to implement it.