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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]Cha
(303,046 posts)And so does this Black online twitter community..
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"In a statement, Netroots Nation Executive Director Raven Brooks stood with the protesters. Although we wish the candidates had more time to respond to the issues, what happened today is reflective of an urgent moment that America is facing today, Brooks said. Next years conference will take place in St. Louis, close to Ferguson, and local leaders of the #BlackLivesMatter movement will be directly engaged, Brooks added. We plan to work with activists there just as we did in Phoenix, to amplify issues like racial profiling and police brutality in a major way.
http://www.newrepublic.com/article/122329/bernie-sanders-and-martin-omalley-failed-their-blacklivesmatter-test
"Vox spoke to Morrow on Sunday evening about why he wasn't impressed with Sanders or his online fans.."
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And it seems like any time black people bring this up on Twitter, there's all these people who, I don't know, they're just sitting around searching his name on Twitter or something, they just come and get in your mentions and start harassing you, they start saying the same things over and over to you, like, "He marched with Dr. Martin Luther King," and, "He was at a sit-in," and they send you a picture of him at a sit-in from 1960-something. That's all well and good, and I'm not denigrating that work, but it's almost as if they're trying to say, "You shouldn't expect him to continue this" or, "Because he's done stuff in the past, you shouldn't question him now."
Imani Gandy @AngryBlackLady
If I see one more Bernie acolyte mention that he marched with MLK, I'm going to burn the Internet to the ground. @EdDescault @Eclectablog
4:23 AM - 19 Jul 2015
That @AngryBlackLady tweet, sent out to her 35,000 followers, inspired Roderick Morrowwho runs the Black Guy Who Tips comedy podcast with his wife, Karento launch the mocking hashtag #BernieSoBlack:
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Which I thought was a funny joke. It's like they're almost trying to outblack us. "Oh, you're a black person, what could you possibly understand about our candidate? He was marching before you were even born!" Okay, that's cool, but you gotta stay on top of it. So I made a joke that's like, "Bernie's blacker than us! Bernie's SO BLACK!" That's how it feels when they come into our mentions and tell us that we don't know what we're talking about, and even though [Sanders] doesn't talk about #BlackLivesMatter right now, we should just kind of shut up. So I was just like:
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Roderick Morrow:Sort of. The thing about the Bernie Sanders fans is while they're very obtuse and they don't listen, they are more polite than the people who just call you the n-word or a racial slur or something. It's more like that passive-aggressive "We're on the same side, man!" where clearly they don't want you to talk about anything that their candidate can do better, but they do want you to just vote for him.
http://www.vox.com/2015/7/20/9005855/black-twitter-bernie-sanders
Oh, people are "alienated" alright.. but, it's not the activists from #BlackLivesMatter who are doing it.
cenk and Bernie fans can keep dissing them all they want. We'll see how far that gets them.