It isn't hard to figure out why Kos is unhappy with BLM: it's targeted Bernie Sanders. They feel that he is a blameless saint.
"Like many progressives, I have been sympathetic and supportive of the #BlackLivesMatter movement. But with their debut of the #bowdownbernie hashtag and repeated targeting of Bernie Sanders for heckling at speaking events -- without doing the same to Hillary Clinton, both of whose records on racial issues are essentially the same and mostly positive -- #BLM has lost my support."
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/08/09/1410125/--BowDownBernie-No-GrowUpBLM
There you go, criticizng Bernie loses BLM Kos' support-or at least of that Kos writer.
You are basically not even allowed to support anyone at Kos except Bernie.
"They should lose the support of all fair-minded progressives. Why? Because bullying, dehumanizing rhetoric such as telling anyone to "bow down" is the kind of thing Donald Trump would say. It has no place in the progressive movement, the Democratic Party, or indeed in a civilized society. It is immature, offensive, and will only serve to alienate millions of people who otherwise would have rallied to the cause, the truth, that Black Lives Matter. Those who claim to speak for this truth should grow up and stop denigrating Sen. Sanders -- a progressive leader who has a long track record as an outspoken ally in the movement to value all life equally regardless of race."
Let's try a thought experiment. If BLM were targeting Hilary would they say the same thing. Would they complain about Hillary being denigrated?
Please-they and Firedoglake would throw BLM a ticker tape parade. For BLM they do seem to use some rather agressive language and tactics. Though I agree totally with them in prinicple:
"Bernie’s arrival in Seattle is largely significant in the context of the state of emergency Black lives are in locally as well as across America. The Seattle Police Department has been under federal consent decree for the last three years and has been continually plagued by use-of-force violations and racist scandals amongst their rank and file. Seattle Mayor Ed Murray has refused to push any reform measures for police accountability, not even the numerous recommendations of his self-appointed Community Police Commission. The Seattle School District suspends Black students at a rate six times higher than their white counterparts, feeding Black children into the school-to-prison pipeline. King County has fought hard to push through a plan to build a $210 million new youth jail to imprison these children, amid intense community criticism and dissent. The Central District, a historically Black neighborhood in Seattle, has undergone rapid gentrification over the past few decades, with Black people being displaced from the only neighborhood that we could legally live in until just years ago. While white men profit off of the legalization of marijuana, our prisons are still filled with Black people who are over-incarcerated for drug offenses."
"This city is filled with white progressives, which is why Bernie Sanders’ camp was obviously expecting a friendly and consenting audience for today’s campaign visit. The problem with Sanders’, and with white Seattle progressives in general, is that they are utterly and totally useless (when not outright harmful) in terms of the fight for Black lives. While we are drowning in their liberal rhetoric, we have yet to see them support Black grassroots movements or take on any measure of risk and responsibility for ending the tyranny of white supremacy in our country and in our city. This willful passivity while claiming solidarity with the#BlackLivesMatter movement in an effort to be relevant is over. White progressive Seattle and Bernie Sanders cannot call themselves liberals while they participate in the racist system that claims Black lives. Bernie Sanders will not continue to call himself a man of the people, while ignoring the plight of Black people. Presidential candidates will not win Black votes without putting out an explicit criminal justice reform package. As was said at the Netroots action, presidential candidates should expect to be shut down and confronted every step along the way of this presidential campaign. Black people are in a state of emergency. Lines have been drawn in the sand. You are either fighting continuously and measurably to protect Black life in America, or you are a part of the white supremacist system that we will tear down in the liberation of our people."
"On this, nearly the one year anniversary of the ruthless murder of Mike Brown, we honor Black lives lost by doing the unthinkable, the unapologetic, and the unrespectable. Out of radical love for our Black brothers and sisters, we put our lives and our bodies on the line to testify to their persecution and resilience. We join together in Black love to #SayHerName and declare that #BlackLivesMatter, understanding that our love will disrupt the complicity and corruption of our anti-Black society; GOP, Democrat, and otherwise."
https://outsideagitators206.org/blog/seattle-says-bowdownbernie/
I do think that they're trying to intimidate Whitey just a little bit with such language. Which is a tactic that can work. Seem just a little scary and menacing. Even the picture of them taking over the stage yesterday is intimidating. The two women do kind of seem to literally take on a position of domination-with some sexual overtones.
You see the way the one on the right-our right,Bernie's left is leaning her head-it almost looks like her head is on that other gentleman's shoulder. It kind of does create an optics of-almost sexual-bullying.
But I love them getting under the skin of all the white liberals supporting Bernie and treating any criticism of him as sacrilege.
"Like many progressives, I have been sympathetic and supportive of the #BlackLivesMatter movement. But with their debut of the #bowdownbernie hashtag and repeated targeting of Bernie Sanders for heckling at speaking events -- without doing the same to Hillary Clinton, both of whose records on racial issues are essentially the same and mostly positive -- #BLM has lost my support."
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/08/09/1410125/--BowDownBernie-No-GrowUpBLM
There you go, criticizng Bernie loses BLM Kos' support-or at least of that Kos writer.
You are basically not even allowed to support anyone at Kos except Bernie.
"They should lose the support of all fair-minded progressives. Why? Because bullying, dehumanizing rhetoric such as telling anyone to "bow down" is the kind of thing Donald Trump would say. It has no place in the progressive movement, the Democratic Party, or indeed in a civilized society. It is immature, offensive, and will only serve to alienate millions of people who otherwise would have rallied to the cause, the truth, that Black Lives Matter. Those who claim to speak for this truth should grow up and stop denigrating Sen. Sanders -- a progressive leader who has a long track record as an outspoken ally in the movement to value all life equally regardless of race."
Let's try a thought experiment. If BLM were targeting Hilary would they say the same thing. Would they complain about Hillary being denigrated?
Please-they and Firedoglake would throw BLM a ticker tape parade. For BLM they do seem to use some rather agressive language and tactics. Though I agree totally with them in prinicple:
"Bernie’s arrival in Seattle is largely significant in the context of the state of emergency Black lives are in locally as well as across America. The Seattle Police Department has been under federal consent decree for the last three years and has been continually plagued by use-of-force violations and racist scandals amongst their rank and file. Seattle Mayor Ed Murray has refused to push any reform measures for police accountability, not even the numerous recommendations of his self-appointed Community Police Commission. The Seattle School District suspends Black students at a rate six times higher than their white counterparts, feeding Black children into the school-to-prison pipeline. King County has fought hard to push through a plan to build a $210 million new youth jail to imprison these children, amid intense community criticism and dissent. The Central District, a historically Black neighborhood in Seattle, has undergone rapid gentrification over the past few decades, with Black people being displaced from the only neighborhood that we could legally live in until just years ago. While white men profit off of the legalization of marijuana, our prisons are still filled with Black people who are over-incarcerated for drug offenses."
"This city is filled with white progressives, which is why Bernie Sanders’ camp was obviously expecting a friendly and consenting audience for today’s campaign visit. The problem with Sanders’, and with white Seattle progressives in general, is that they are utterly and totally useless (when not outright harmful) in terms of the fight for Black lives. While we are drowning in their liberal rhetoric, we have yet to see them support Black grassroots movements or take on any measure of risk and responsibility for ending the tyranny of white supremacy in our country and in our city. This willful passivity while claiming solidarity with the#BlackLivesMatter movement in an effort to be relevant is over. White progressive Seattle and Bernie Sanders cannot call themselves liberals while they participate in the racist system that claims Black lives. Bernie Sanders will not continue to call himself a man of the people, while ignoring the plight of Black people. Presidential candidates will not win Black votes without putting out an explicit criminal justice reform package. As was said at the Netroots action, presidential candidates should expect to be shut down and confronted every step along the way of this presidential campaign. Black people are in a state of emergency. Lines have been drawn in the sand. You are either fighting continuously and measurably to protect Black life in America, or you are a part of the white supremacist system that we will tear down in the liberation of our people."
"On this, nearly the one year anniversary of the ruthless murder of Mike Brown, we honor Black lives lost by doing the unthinkable, the unapologetic, and the unrespectable. Out of radical love for our Black brothers and sisters, we put our lives and our bodies on the line to testify to their persecution and resilience. We join together in Black love to #SayHerName and declare that #BlackLivesMatter, understanding that our love will disrupt the complicity and corruption of our anti-Black society; GOP, Democrat, and otherwise."
https://outsideagitators206.org/blog/seattle-says-bowdownbernie/
I do think that they're trying to intimidate Whitey just a little bit with such language. Which is a tactic that can work. Seem just a little scary and menacing. Even the picture of them taking over the stage yesterday is intimidating. The two women do kind of seem to literally take on a position of domination-with some sexual overtones.
You see the way the one on the right-our right,Bernie's left is leaning her head-it almost looks like her head is on that other gentleman's shoulder. It kind of does create an optics of-almost sexual-bullying.
But I love them getting under the skin of all the white liberals supporting Bernie and treating any criticism of him as sacrilege.
And would Kos complain if that woman's head was on Hillary's shoulder and she was chanting 'Bow Down Hillary?' I think that's a clear no.
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