REPOST: BLACK LIVES MATTER GETS ON STAGE AND BERNIE SANDERS RUNS AWAY

"Event organizers allowed the period of silence [for Mike Brown], as some in the large crowd booed and shouted for the protesters to leave the stage.

Afterward, Marissa Janae Johnson, who identified herself as a leader of the Black Lives Matter chapter in Seattle, asked the crowd to “join us now in holding Bernie Sanders accountable for his actions.” She motioned for Sanders to join her at the microphone.
After several minutes of frantic conversations, Sanders left the stage and greeted people in the large crowd who had turned out to see him. Many chanted his name."

MY TITLE FOR THIS ARTICLE:  
BLACK LIVES MATTERS GETS ON STAGE AND BERNIE SANDERS RUNS AWAY 

WASHINGTON POST TITLE FOR THIS ARTICLE:

Protesters drove Bernie Sanders from one Seattle stage. At his next stop, 15,000 people showed.

MY INTERPRETATION OF WASHINGTON POST TITLE FOR THIS ARTICLE: 

Black Whiners had the audacity to interrupt white male, Bernie Sanders who graciously bowed out and left one Seattle stage. At his next stop, 15,000 white people* that mattered showed (* = 98%)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/08/08/bernie-sanders-leaves-seattle-stage-after-event-disrupted-by-black-lives-matter-protesters/





LOOK AT SOME OTHER TITLES OF ARTICLES ON THIS EVENT

GOOGLE NEWS ANSWER to a
"BERNIE SANDERS" query on 8 9 2015

By the way, this negatively portrayed news event was started by two whole women from Black Lives Matter in Seattle. A man who wants to be president ran away from two rather small, shouting black women. 

The initial approach wasn't great. But the most important thing about this is that Sanders couldn't handle it.    

One of the first things Marissa Janae Johnson demanded was a 4.5 minute of silence to represent the 4.5 hours Mike Brown's body lay in the street on the one year anniversary of his death.  Listen to the "most liberal city in America's" fragile white response" in the background.





The initial "disruption" by these two Black Lives Matter representatives in the video below truly was not great. The disruption itself? Yes, that's a good thing. But the squeaky screams in defense of attitude were not great. They're young. And they came off as "too young."  But they're OUT THERE and they are learning. It'll be better next time.

But if Bernie Sanders cannot overcome a rough start
by two whole Black Lives Matter demonstrators
combined with dumb non-responsiveness
from an inept event organizer,
then follow up
by RESPONDING on Black Lives Matter issues NOW
as people are DYING at hands of police NOW,
then Sanders doesn't have what it takes to be president.You have to have good ideas and leadership skills if you want to be president. I can't imagine Barack Obama in parallel, non-racial situation letting two whole demonstrators be handledso clumsily right in front of him, then run. I cannot picture it at all.

And when you listen to the video, make sure you listen to the comments being made by "white liberals" about the Black Lives Matter protesters. Listen hard. Listen to the video more than once




The traditional republican party hasn't been this weak in a long, long time. They've got numbers but they aren't pulling in one direction like they used to. The Tea Party is pulling one way. Donald Trump is pulling at all the seams he can every time he opens his mouth. The republicans are falling to pieces. This is the time for #BlackLivesMatter and black political interest groups to see if they can make or break a democratic candidate.

The language Of The Heard versus The Unheard

If we are weighing the destruction of property against the loss of a Life. 

If you value the loss of property

 more than the Life of a Black Child, 

we are not on the same team.

Jay Smooth

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HIDING A SLAVE-OWNING ANCESTOR IS S.O.P. AND DEADLY

BACKGROUND:

Henry Louis Gates has a show on PBS called "Finding Your Roots" where he tells people, mostly stars, about the research he's done on their ancestors
An educator to the bone, Gates goes over quite a bit of where those ancestors fit in United States History. Beyond that,  Gates reports on a DNA trace so that each star can know what section of the planet their ancestors came from before they were brought to or came to the United States.

The history part put the show into the edu-tainment category of television along with a number of of other PBS TV shows. But it is the white washing of the history section of this show that concerns me.

And it should concern us all because Ben Affleck refusing to talk about his slave owning ancestor then winding up all smiles on the show as he discusses the war hero ancestor is just one example of millions of examples of  "focusing on the positive" of white history and erasing the negative impacts of that white history on everyone else. This incident is symbolic and also contributes a tiny piece to the whole, incomplete pseudo-history that has been pouring over us all since grade school.


Do you think the erasure of white-negative-action toward black and brown stopped at the days of slavery? It didn't. The erasure of the uglier side of white history and current events has been constant in this country. All you have to do is review the true-er story of Miriam Carey's death to refresh your memory.

It is shocking how much worse history class is in the 21st century, worse than when I was a kid. And I didn't think e-race-sure could get worse than that. But I was chatting with people the other day that didn't know that the Japanese were rounded up during WWII and held in U.S."internment camps." Those of you that did know, did you also know that a number of Japanese men volunteered from within those internment camps to prove their loyalty to the U.S., to prove their worth?


Did you know that black men did the same thing? They volunteered to fight for this country, to prove their worth and loyalty during


the Revolutionary War,

the Civil War,

WWI,

WWII

And???



Did you know that, while still just a lawyer, the second President of the United States John Adams defended the white British soldiers that killed Crispus Attucks  --the black man who has been reported as the first man of any shade to die for this country?  And last I checked, the "John Adams" white washed historical record on wikipedia doesn't mention the Crispus Attucks connection to the second president of the U.S.


It is normal and standard operating procedure, both, for human beings to hide ugly things in their family. But it should be crystal clear to anybody that's been paying attention that it is also standard operation procedure for white people to erase the uglier parts of white history.  School books, many of them written, produced in Texas, make sure history books for schools don't contain anything controversial (white racism) in them.


It is absolutely unacceptable that our PBS station, supposedly liberal in tone, is continuing the tradition of white washing history for adult edu-tainment. This concern of mine isn't just about erasure or incompleteness either: This select-a-view approach to history is connected to who lives and who dies in the here and now.

Negative white history has erased to the point that large swathes of white population are extremely ignorant and therefore racist. And the resulting racism should actually be expected.


If you, as a white person, are told over and over again that everything your white father, grandfather, and great grandfather was great and your white cousins, white friends, and white co-workers were all told the same thing THEN doesn't it's going to appear to you that everybody is country started out equal and/or have had equal chances for success for a very long time now?


And since this erasure of white racism is continual from 1600s to now, doesn't it look like the U.S. is a meritocracy where blacks and browns are simply failing to pull their own weight?

And since the erasure of white racism, including Ben Affleck's white slave owner ancestors, also includes the erasure of white violence toward black and brown people, doesn't this make violence of white policeman toward black people seem like it sprang up outta nowhere instead of it being a continuation of the same old behaviors?

During black history month I read a paper that hypothesize that police forces might have sprung from the groups of poor white men known as "paddy rollers" or runaway slave catchers.

And wouldn't the paddy rollers to police force connection explain some-tons about the black dead that were killed by white police while unarmed?

In the end, PBS has a lot of blame for this. But Henry Louis Gates knows all of what I just shared here and 10x more. Gates had to know that Affleck was motivated by all the usual pieces of human frailty in general and white fragility in the specific. Unless Gates was completely over-ridden by PBS, and it doesn't look like he was, he gets the lion's share of the blame for contributing to this white washing because he knows that human being do not like to tell on themselves in general and that white people are resistant to telling ugly history since forever. The entire racial climate of the United States is based on these two types of duck-and-cover.

Black man Gates should have been the gate-keep on the truth. He should have told Ben Affleck, "Sorry buh-BYE" He's had so many stars on his show, how could Affleck have been missed? How?

Regardless of who is more responsible for this particular sin-of-omission, Henry Louis Gates and PBS owe us all an apology for their contribution to the bigger racial picture.

Or maybe PBS should  just change the name of the show. "Finding Your Roots" could be changed to "Hiding Your Roots" with a couple keystrokes. And we'd be back on SSDD Street in no time at all.



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WHITE FRAGILITY: A definition

from
LOVE LIFE OF AN ASIAN GUY &
THE GOOD MEN PROJECT

FROM LOVE LIFE OF AN ASIAN GUY

LINK TO LOVE LIFE OF AN ASIAN GUY/Subject is race in the U.S.

I love it when sociologists and creative lay-women come up with names for things that black people have been observing for decades and decades.

"Challenges to this identity become highly stressful and even intolerable. The following are examples of the kinds of challenges that trigger racial stress for white people:   

Suggesting that a white person’s viewpoint comes from a racialized frame of reference (challenge to objectivity);    

People of color talking directly about their own racial perspectives (challenge to white taboos on talking openly about race);    

People of color choosing not to protect the racial feelings of white people in regards to race (challenge to white racial expectations and need/entitlement to racial comfort);    

People of color not being willing to tell their stories or answer questions about their racial experiences (challenge to the expectation that people of color will serve us);   

A fellow white not providing agreement with one’s racial perspective (challenge to white solidarity);    

Receiving feedback that one’s behavior had a racist impact (challenge to white racial innocence);   

Suggesting that group membership is significant (challenge to individualism);   

An acknowledgment that access is unequal between racial groups (challenge to meritocracy);    

Being presented with a person of color in a position of leadership (challenge to white authority);    

Being presented with information about other racial groups through, for example, movies in which people of color drive the action but are not in stereotypical roles, or multicultural education (challenge to white centrality).

 
Not often encountering these challenges, we withdraw, defend, cry, argue, minimize, ignore, and in other ways push back to regain our racial position and equilibrium. I term that push back white fragility.
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