tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1086764876629036045.post8373159931594504131..comments2023-10-06T06:29:02.689-04:00Comments on A Bright Cape: Stop oversimplifyingSkyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10723733406348223879noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1086764876629036045.post-62850063194146262702015-08-14T10:27:28.884-04:002015-08-14T10:27:28.884-04:00The conflict between Black Lives Matters and Berni...The conflict between Black Lives Matters and Bernie Sanders supporters seems pretty complex, and has to do with grassroots organizations feels unsupported by one another. I think protesters should disrupt things and make themselves heard, I think that a lot of people are angry that these protesters were disrupting the Sanders and that Black Lives Matter seems to have taken a hands-off approach to Hilary Clinton (and there are some accusations of corruption there that I've seen - i.e., wealthy donors to Black Lives Matterr supporting Clinton; I have no idea of the truth behind that).<br /><br />Anyway, Sanders himself has taken the incident very well and added an explicit Racial Justice plank to his platform that includes things like eliminated for-profit prisons, preventing discrimination based on criminal records in hiring practices, and restoring provisions to the Voting Rights Act, and that platform has earned praise from official Black Lives Matter spokespeople (it's important to remember that anyone can be Black Lives Matter in the same way anyone can be Anonymous, but with Black Lives Matter there is an official web page and facebook group and such). People who had waited hours in awful heat to hear Sanders were angry about the disruption, but ultimately it sounds like it is just reinforcing that Sanders is the only mainstream candidate with any credibility on racial justice anyway.<br /><br />By the way, the reason people are so excited about Sanders is that (in addition to being a credible progressive who marched with Martin Luther King, called for equality for homosexuals in the 1970s and voted against the Iraq war) is that he is running without corporate funding and polling in the lead. If he can win (and it really looks like he can) then the corporate stanglehold on the American government is broken.Sthennohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05429676469805661834noreply@blogger.com