Do all lives matter? Or just Black lives – actually, Black lives taken by law enforcement?
If you are a normal human being, using basic logic, I would think your answer would be that all lives matter.
If you are a left wing nutcake, you boo and heckle a fellow left-winger for that answer.
If you are an organized group of left-wing nutcakes, you boo him off the stage altogether.
What am I talking about? Read this account from Martin Pengelly\’s article for London\’s Daily Guardian and see for yourself:
The Democratic presidential candidates Martin O\’Malley and Bernie Sanders were heckled and constantly interrupted during an appearance at the Netroots Nation conference on Saturday, as protesters over police brutality towards African Americans took the stage in Phoenix.
O\’Malley was eventually forced offstage, after the protest and his attempts to respond delayed the appearance of Sanders.
O\’Malley had spoken…for more than 20 minutes about a range of policy issues before an activist took the stage to deliver a long monologue about immigration and police violence in Arizona and beyond.
To chants of “black lives matter”, an organiser pleaded: “Give the governor a chance to respond.”
Subsequently, a second protester, a Black Lives Matter activist who was introduced as Patrice, was invited on to the stage to ask a question.
“It\’s not like we like shutting shit down, but we have to,” she said. “We are tired of being interrupted.”
She added: “We are in a state of emergency. If you don\’t know that emergency, you are not human.”
“I want to hear concrete actions,” she told O\’Malley, “and I want to hear an action plan.”
“Let me say a couple of things,” O\’Malley began in response. “All of us as Americans have a responsibility to recognise the pain and the grief throughout our country for all of the lives that have been lost to violence, whether at the hands of police or civilians.”
His words were greeted by heckling.
O’Malley tried to respond, saying: “This is …let me…sure. I\’ll just share with you … I\’m trying to respond as best I can. No … hey. Look … I know, I know.”
O\’Malley switched to an inclusive tack. He said: “Every life matters and that is why this issue is important. Black lives matter, white lives matter, all lives matter.”
He was greeted, repeatedly, by booing.
A joint statement from Democracy for America and the Progressive Change Campaign Committee said: “Black lives matter and we stand in solidarity with every single organizer and activist who stood up and demanded that presidential candidates challenge power and respond to the crushing consequences of structural racism.”
A lot of media attention is directed toward the extremism of the Republican Party\’s right wing base. Some of it is true, and some of it is not.
Now, let\’s see if just as much media attention is directed toward this crystal-clear example of the Democrat Party\’s left wing ba…..
…Hey,why are you laughing at me? You can\’t possibly believe media will largely ignore this, can you?
Oh, wait. At the beginning of this blog I asked if you were a normal human being, using basic logic. Evidently, you are.
