Last night was a testament to the Black Lives Matter movement

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La Lioness Priyanka (48,704 posts)

Last night was a testament to the Black Lives Matter movement


For all the hand wringing about them alienating allies etc., their methods to wake us up to a crisis in the black community and in America worked.

The presidential candidates had to answer a question about whether black lives matter or all lives matter and they all (with i think the exception of Webb), did a pretty good job

And a year ago, they would all have failed this question.

As a true ally to this movement, I was so grateful to them for blocking intersections, interrupting speeches, and doing what they had to do to raise our collective consciousness. I applaud them for this work.

Go back to the jungle lion.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027258083

[Chris_]

The crisis in the black community is a direct result of the policies of the people debating on that stage last night.  If anything, it was a testament to the power of threats of violence and identity politics.

[Patriot Guard Rider]

I might, MIGHT develop just a smidgen of respect for these assholes IF they'd show up in Chicago and Baltimore to do their protest thing. Block intersections, stare down the gangbangers doing the shooting and so on. That, however, would call attention to black on black crime and we simply can't have that. It's gotta be whitey's fault.

[98ZJUSMC]

The crisis in the black community is a direct result of the policies of the people debating on that stage last night.  If anything, it was a testament to the power of threats of violence and identity politics.

 

[98ZJUSMC]

I might, MIGHT develop just a smidgen of respect for these assholes IF they'd show up in Chicago and Baltimore to do their protest thing. Block intersections, stare down the gangbangers doing the shooting and so on. That, however, would call attention to black on black crime and we simply can't have that. It's gotta be whitey's fault.

Nigga, please!

[freedumb2003b]

BLACK LIVES MATTER

(Except to other blacks)

[thundley4]

Hell, all the freebies being promised by the Dim candidates are directed at minorities to buy their votes, so a little kowtowing to BLM was easy enough for those cocksuckers to handle. (All cocksuckers, except Hillary, of course)

[jukin]

The crisis in the black community is a direct result of the policies of the people debating on that stage last night.  If anything, it was a testament to the power of threats of violence and identity politics.

Yes they do share in it but it is also the black community (Lord I hate that word) that should also be held accountable. Until it is there will be no change. If you notice it is never black's fault, ever. It's gun violence, not black male 14-45 violence. It is lack of whitey giving enough money, time, whatever but not ever black's fault for having a culture hat is anti-social/white. It is a black problem at its heart. The fascist democrat elites in their quest for power have exasperated it but it is a black problem. Until the problem is defined, the solution can never even be sought much less found.

[Patriot Guard Rider]

Yes they do share in it but it is also the black community (Lord I hate that word) that should also be held accountable. Until it is there will be no change. If you notice it is never black's fault, ever. It's gun violence, not black male 14-45 violence. It is lack of whitey giving enough money, time, whatever but not ever black's fault for having a culture hat is anti-social/white. It is a black problem at its heart. The fascist democrat elites in their quest for power have exasperated it but it is a black problem. Until the problem is defined, the solution can never even be sought much less found.

Your last sentence is why the problem will never be defined. I hear black people (looking at you sharpton and jackson) saying we need to talk about race, but the second race is talked about, they scream racism (especially if problems within the black community are mentioned), shut down the people they need to talk to, then strut around like a pigeon on a chessboard and say "this is why we can't talk about racial problems".

The liberal definition of race is a collective one. White people can't say "that guy (let's say he's black), is an asshole". To do so means you insulted the collective instead of an individual and are therefore racist.

Unless and until we (meaning EVERYONE sharpton and jackson) start looking at people as individuals, the racial problem will be especially difficult to solve.

JMHO

[USA4ME]

La Lioness Priyanka

Last night was a testament to the Black Lives Matter movement

For all the hand wringing about them alienating allies etc., their methods to wake us up to a crisis in the black community and in America worked.

The presidential candidates had to answer a question about whether black lives matter or all lives matter and they all (with i think the exception of Webb), did a pretty good job

And a year ago, they would all have failed this question.

As a true ally to this movement, I was so grateful to them for blocking intersections, interrupting speeches, and doing what they had to do to raise our collective consciousness. I applaud them for this work.

But will the results be any different? No.

All the #blm movement has done is inform the Dem candidates how they need to frame what they say. It won't change what they do.

The Dem party has to keep blacks poor, uneducated, unemployed, around violence, and living in ghettos so they can tell them it's those evil Republicans keeping them there, and that if they vote for Dems they'll help them no longer be poor, uneducated, unemployed, around violence, and living in ghettos.

And as long as blacks keep falling for it, the Dems have no reason to change what they say verses what they do.

So while you say they "raised our collective consciousness," the results will be the same. Blacks gained nothing. But I'm convinced they like it that way, so let them be used.

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[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

What it shows me is Democrats are pussies who can be easily backed into a corner.

Sounds like a course of action for us.

[jb2u11]

Speaking of this, has anyone heard from Bravenak lately?

[jukin]

All the #blm movement has done is inform the Dem candidates how they need to frame what they say. It won't change what they do.

IMHO, blm has woke up a lot of complacent white people that now know black hate them. Many millions of race realists have been born by blm. Read a yahoo thread concerning another black on white assault, rape, or murder. I say Yahoo because most other sites won't allow comments on such stories or just don't cover them.

[delilahmused]

If they ever talk about the children, women and other innocent people being killed in the crossfire of gang shootings, that would show they understand black lives matter.

If they are angry about looting and black owned businesses being destroyed by "protesters" that would show they understand black lives matter.

If they made any genuine effort to get illegal guns off the street and out of the hands of gang members (if the ATF can stop filtering guns to Mexican drug cartels long enough to address the problem) they would show they understand black lives matter.

If they bothered to improve the public schools or gave families vouchers to attend good schools to break the generational bonds of povery, despair and slavery that would show they understand black lives matter.

If they stopped throwing subsistence level handouts and freebies that change nothing in their lives, if they took some of that money and started programs that gave the a hand UP, that would show they understand black lives matter.

Pandering and words everyone expects them to say then ignore them until the next election proves they don't give a rip. Anyone can say "black lives matter". Action prove they mean it. I have to say this for the left, they have their subjects well trained. You'd have to be totally brainwashed to believe the people who haven't every changed your circumstance will actually do it "this time".

Cindie

[Boudicca]

What it shows me is Democrats are pussies who can be easily backed into a corner.

Sounds like a course of action for us.

I am still bewildered as to why Jim Webb was swimming in this sewer with these ghetto rat wannbe assholes on the stage last night.  He needs to come back to the Republican party where he'd get the respect he deserves for being a bonafide war hero as well as a man who can think his way out of a paper bag.  The first would be difficult for the other four to achieve, although Hilarity did land in Bosnia under heavy fire  BUT it takes a special kind of stupid to be outwitted by an empty podium (waves to Plagiarizing Joe) AND a used brown paper lunch bag.  Hmm, seemed to me like Lincoln Chaffee was either out to lunch or auditioning for the return of Howdy Dowdy.

[obumazombie]

BLACK LIVES MATTER

(Except to other blacks)

Well, their votes matter.
And they don't have to be alive to cast them.