2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: #BlackLivesMatter but 15 Minutes of Fame Seekers Shouldn't: The Sanders/O'Malley Shoutdown NN15 [View all]Erich Bloodaxe BSN
(14,733 posts)Accusing BLM protestors of simply wanting '15 minutes of fame'? Really?
Black people being murdered and brutalized every fucking day in this country, and the author seriously thinks they just 'wanted 15 minutes of fame'?
No, that's not the 'truth' of the matter. It's one person's one-dimensional opinion. Now it may be widely shared by people who are upset that protestors chose THEIR venue to protest, just like so many motorists get upset when protestors elsewhere block roads and cause businesses to shut down, but it's still not 'the truth', any more than it would be to claim that the Ferguson protestors were merely seeking 'their 15 minutes of fame' or the OWS protestors were seeking 'their 15 minutes of fame'.
I support Bernie, because I think he truly DOES want to end the brutalization and murder of black people by police. But unless he can figure out HOW to speak to AA voters so that THEY believe he does as well, he's not going to do as well with those voters as he really needs to.
I want Bernie to win this, but he's going to have to learn to be enough of a national campaigner to tailor his framing and messaging to his audience, so that they know he's listening to them and HEARING them. He can't just keep talking about these issues as he would to all-white audiences. He's got to convince people who have no reason to simply 'trust' him, or any politician. People who have had to fight over and over for everything they've gotten from this country, who've been repeatedly used and abused by politicians, who are still constantly being harassed, attacked, murdered by agents of the government.