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In reply to the discussion: Thom Hartman joins number of white progressives slamming those criticizing #BLM [View all]Dems2002
(509 posts)Honestly, I am astonished by the strength and brilliance of these young activists. What they are achieving in a short time is incredible. Not just forcing their way into a conversation that has actively sidelined them for two generations, but taking their message into the heart of the progressive movement.
It is so easily to point to folks waiving a confederate flag and say racist. You know what I see all of the time from my republican family members? A furious desire to point the finger at Democrats. No one likes the label. But as long as a bunch of white people are pointing fingers at each other for being the problem, none of us are spending any time at all pulling the damn plank out of our own eyes.
I expect some republicans to take a really long time to do this. But I really hope Progressives and shut up and start leading by example. I am not surprised, but I am ashamed. We need to do better. We need to recognize that these passionate activists are LEADING an uprising. And this is our moment to decide the side we are on. Have we all become craven cowards? Have we drunk the collective kool aide and actually believe the ridiculous notion that protests and disruptions don't work? Of course they work. They are already working for BLM.
Let us join them. Not at the front, but where we belong. At the back, mostly to listen, to link arms and to speak to our fellow white progressive friends who are still talking out of their asses.
We can do better.