Sanders Being Harassed by blacklivesmatter#

If your issue isn't getting talked about, and if a candidate is coming to your town for a public event, you should absolutely do everything you can to be heard.

After getting interrupted at Netroots Nation, storming off the stage, and refusing to meet with Black Lives Matter protesters, Bernie Sanders wised up and hired Symone Sanders – a powerful, outspoken, young black woman who volunteers at the Coalition for Juvenile Justice – to be his national press secretary after she convinced him that economic inequality and racial inequality are interconnected. Bernie Sanders used to get called out by conservatives for omitting racial justice from his stump speech. But on Sunday he's since revised his website and stump speech to address about racial injustice issues of mass incarceration, voting rights, police militarization, and how black people are disproportionately targeted. This is proof that disruption works. And we need more of it, not less.

Yep. Very good, and with Bernie Sanders we know this wasn't a window covering hire.

Interesting. So you don't think Sanders is even capable of doing something out of purely political calculation?

“A lot of folks have been talking to me like, ‘Oh those girls weren’t very organized and they were very emotional,’” Oso said. “I probably would have gotten very emotional and upset and started screaming and crying too if I had been shut down the way they tried to shut those ladies down.”
Although decentralized and often said to be lacking organization, Black Lives Matter is actually following the same model and “on the same continuum” as previous struggles for liberation that came before it, Oso said. During the civil rights movement, there were massive marches in the South, but Martin Luther King Jr. also met with President Lyndon Johnson behind closed doors, she said. During the abolition of slavery, there were similar demonstrations occurring while Frederick Douglas sat down with Abraham Lincoln behind closed doors.

Not all of the disruptions will go smoothly, and activists may continue to appear emotional and angry when approaching candidates, Oso said. But critics who say Black Lives Matter activists don’t respond well to being shut out of political events are missing a crucial fact about the movement.
“People are talking about Black Lives Matter activism — the way that we’re doing things and the strategy and tactics — in a way that is very detached without understanding that what we’re doing is very personal to us,” she said. “It’s very, very personal. I have experience with police violence. Members of my family have been brutalized by the police.”
Instead of treating the movement as any other advocacy group, Oso said people should realize that it means more to the activists.
“I think a lot of the critiques are absent of the fact that we are fighting for our lives.”

Power doesn't work like that. Disrupting power, after centuries of all kinds of unfair practices and policies in a nation built on apartheid, is exactly how this works.

I don't have to ask nicely for anything that is guaranteed to other Americans.

Stop expecting Black people to do that.

A question for you Snood...

What would Bernie Sanders have to do to earn your vote?

Seen no sign of it yet. Do you think he made a punky hire?