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In reply to the discussion: Thank you Thom Hartman for your perspective on the Marissa Johnson diatribe [View all]daredtowork
(3,732 posts)There are no "official" BLM acts since BLM is a decentralized organization. Marissa is the head of BLM in Seattle. Therefore, what she did was a BLM act. That's true even if she belongs to a radical "Outliers" group and/or if she's an extreme Christian and/or if she once had a Sarah Palin button on her backpack and/or if she once flirted with joining the GOP. BLM isn't part of the Democratic party-building machine. They are a goal-focused organization, that goal to be to call attention to and stop the killing of African Americans. Marissa acted within that framework when she disrupted the Bernie event.
As to the question about whether Marissa was compensated. Or whether she worked for Hillary. Or whether she worked for the GOP to help split the Democratic party. Or whether she was taking down Bernie to try out for a nob with Hillary...all this is pure speculation.
Some BLM activists are continuing to harp on this and try to inflate their outrage over the suggestion Marissa could be working for Hillary. To me this is almost as bad as Bernie supporters booing the BLM girls. They are in effect calling Bernie supporters paranoid conspiracy theorists when in fact they should be suspicious. Thom Hartmann himself is suspicious of BLM's "reaching out" to Hillary.