So they had a scheduled meeting with him, and they still "disrupted" the Event?! lol
its even worst then I thought
He also was planning to speak about racial inequality at the speech these same people took over yesterday. It's pretty telling.
You want your man to win? Start listening. Or wither on the vine. That's the great thing about politicians, there will always be another one to take that spot.
This is a fantasy. Watching Twitter as this was unfolding yesterday and if anything I saw just as many black voters expressing frustration with these activists yesterday as there were in favor of it. These activists aren't tied to BLM and BLM isn't a monolith of the entirety of the black vote. If you're not going to vote for Sanders because of some of his supporters then that's entirely laughable, as someone who remembers Hillaryis44 and honestly, to quote someone from Twitter,
Bernie Sanders has obsessed, cultish supporters. sure. okay. i didn't need GiveObamaAThirdTerm420 to tell me that.
This is more to deal with the Internet and the corporate controlled democratization of letting everyone speak to one another than a specific issue for Sanders to address. If people want to change the status quo, its going to be hard, and its going to be met with resistance - not that they're wrong, but to expect and shame people for not handing them everything on a silver platter on their hands and knees is ridiculous - Sanders gave up space for these people to speak and has made considerable changes to try and appeal to these people.
To make excuses for not going after Hillary and the Republicans because "its hard" does nothing but further the ideal that BLM is a weak, irrelevant fringe group, which it certainly isn't, but this is an election season where you have to actually convince people, not just be more right than them and feel good about yourself. The Republican establishment and hell, Hillary to the same degree are relying on shutting out critical voices as much as possible so they don't have to hear them. Just giving up and settling for the guy who has shown himself to be actually willing to listen and treating him as just another disingenuous white liberal racist supremacist to talk down to like he doesn't care and doesn't know anything doesn't really convince anyone of anything.
White people are still nearly 80 percent of the nation and the majority of the voting bloc. Yeah, you might have to actually convince them. It's not pretty and there's going to be uncomfortable compromises, sure, but pissing this all away while the Republicans are in the middle of getting their shit together behind Trump will only serve to make things even worse across the board.
There's respectability politics and tone arguments and then there's making excuses for outright ineptitude to construct a false narrative where black activists are demanding the Baltimore mayor that pushed "zero tolerance" policing be the example to follow - moving goalposts and playing ignorant when somebody is making constructive progress to address the grievances made.
Besides, who is going to take Sanders spot? Jim Webb, the Hollywood screenwritter who wrote Samuel L. Jackson screaming "WASTE THE MOTHERFUCKERS" at his squad to mow down a bunch of Arabic civilians? Mind you, the end of this film concludes that this was actually a good thing.
This is one of the most brutally depressing election seasons in recent history and siding with people declaring "#bowdownbernie" when his father was a holocaust survivor who had their entire family wiped out is brutally pathetic. Sanders has done nothing but give up the podium and prove himself open to hearing what BLM has to say. His supporters are to some extent rightfully frustrated to see bastions of white power go pathetically unchallenged while someone willing to listen and make changes is hounded as some disingenuous white liberal supremacist.