Bernie Sanders
In reply to the discussion: So I guess we got the meme [View all]merrily
(45,251 posts)But no, I would never turn it around and talk about the tone or messaging of BLM. In their shoes, with all they face hourly and with all their pain, I don't know what I would do. Also, they have no professional handlers, that I know of. I fault them for nothing. The only thing I would say to them, if I could--and this is not intended as criticism at all--choose the most effective way.
IMO, what they did at Netroots was effective because it got a lot of attention and also said, in an unmistakeable way, "We have problems with Democrats, too," something that may have come as a surprise to many Democrats and Republicans, though not many pros.
Please forgive a very frivolous reference, but it keeps running through my mind. On a Housewives reality show recently, a woman shouted to her castmates, "Nice doesn't work with you people." And, after that happened, the people who had been talking down to her nonstop for a few seasons now apologized.
Will they stop? Maybe, but at least they know she's unhappy. In the face of so very much, I could never have been as "nice" as African Americans have been for so very long. I will not fault BLM.