It is a complement, really. BLM is saying that there is no point in confronting one of those 16 men and one woman Republican candidates about politics. It is a lot safer to hijack the event of a bunch of progressives and tell them they aren't nearly progressive enough. This protest hijacked the twitter streams and blogs and even the news and says we want more people to understand our outrage at the latest shooting death of an unarmed black teenager. Try googling "unarmed black teen shot by police" and you will be able to find 19 year-old Christian Taylor, shot to death in Arlington Texas (corrected).
You heard and rebroadcast the signal without listening to the message. You are not doing enough to help this problem by supporting Bernie Sanders. There was Martin Luther King Jr. and there was Malcolm X. They were both disruptive, but most of the folks here are a lot more comfortable with Martin than they are with Malcolm. You think you are leading a revolution and are finding out that people are actually revolting against you too. These BLM folks, some have quit their jobs and moved places to be able to protest.
BLM are revolutionaries and part of the disruptive technology of the internet (and Operative Wall Street) means they are disrupting Bernie too.
Woot for BLM for amplifying their signal and breaking though the Sanders Clinton issues to hijack the debate. Nothing I have seen in years has revealed to me how important than BLM than the thin-skinned response here last night. These BLM folks can't have done this on their own against Bernie- Clinton or Republicans must have put them up to it. Wow. Just listen to how patronizing that sounds. Bernie will help them with their problems just as soon as we get our student loan issues fixed. We need to overturn Congress and then we will help you all with your issues.
Can't we walk and chew gum at the same time around here, people? Can't people be pissed off enough about the racial segregation and unequal treatment enough to tell you your best isn't good enough, try again! Listen to This American Life this week about segregation and one year after Ferguson. http://www.vox.com/...
It is only when we realize our best isn't enough and we need to try harder and differently that really transformative change happens. I have worked all my life on incremental change and I am proud of that. Change within a system is important too, but my contribution to changing the world has been small at best. BLM is showing us they want more change and faster and it isn't enough to support Bernie. Message received and heard. It is up to each of us to respond and most of us will be incremental in our change. But being thin skinned and defensive isn't my idea of an effective response.