2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: #BlackLivesMatter but 15 Minutes of Fame Seekers Shouldn't: The Sanders/O'Malley Shoutdown NN15 [View all]LovingA2andMI
(7,006 posts)There are other African-Americans looking at what happened in Phoenix and opening wondering who exactly are these folks trying to help? Themselves? Young African-American Men and Women being Killed by Police? Violence in the African-American Urban Communities? Their Blog? Whatever Book Deal or Talking Head Cable TV spot they are trying to obtain?
REALLY! We are wondering this because:
Shouting down those who are on one side is not effective communication nor is it any type of strategy that seeks an effective solution. Could Candidates O' Malley and Sanders learned more in areas they might be un-knowledgeable about the African-American experience, sure! However, shouting, screaming and jockeying for an "Look at Me" moment is not the way to do it. Not at all.
Maybe, just maybe instead of looking like the shouting fools they were, they should have took a page from the Civil Rights Movements Playbooks still of relevance today and engaged in a sit-down protest if it was believed the message was not heard. Right there, right then in the event, walking in unison, hand by hand to the front conference room area and sat quietly with hands covering the mouths and eyes to demonstrate "You are not Seeing Our Struggle or Hearing Our Struggle".
This would have been MUCH MORE effective than the Shouting Match.