DNC Caves To #BlackLivesMatter
[guest post by Dana]
Given that I’m wearied by that faction of the Republican party these days, I thought it would be a good distraction to look at the crazy happenings on the dark side of the aisle. Because it can always be worse!
Earlier today, Joe Biden gave the world’s longest and most convoluted “no” to the question of whether he would run for the presidency. But there was also another bit of DNC news:
The Democratic National Committee on Wednesday gave its blessing to two of the most prominent activist groups associated with the Black Lives Matter protest movement — the #BlackLivesMatter network and Campaign Zero — to host a presidential town hall focused on issues of racial justice, but stood firm in its stance that there will be no additional debates on the 2016 campaign schedule.
In letters addressed to leaders of the #BlackLivesMatter network and prominent activist DeRay Mckesson, the DNC invited the activist groups to coordinate and host a presidential town hall similar to those currently being planned by other liberal groups including MoveOn.org.
“We believe that your organization would be an ideal host for a presidential candidate forum — where all of the Democratic candidates can showcase their ideas and policy positions that will expand opportunity for all, strengthen the middle class and address racism in America,” wrote Amy K. Dacey, chief executive officer of the DNC, in the letters which were obtained by The Post. “The DNC would be happy to help promote the event.”
An “ideal” host?? Hm… Would this be the same #BlackLivesMatter protest group and supporters that bullied Bernie Sanders into submission, boo’d Martin O’Malley off the stage and shamed Hillary Clinton for claiming all lives matter instead of just black lives?
And would this be the same DeRay McKesson who recently lectured at Yale Divinity School, and whose lecture included a defense of looting?:
The mystifying ideological claim that looting is violent and non-political is one that has been carefully produced by the ruling class because it is precisely the violent maintenance of property which is both the basis and end of their power. Looting is extremely dangerous to the rich (and most white people) because it reveals, with an immediacy that has to be moralized away, that the idea of private property is just that: an idea, a tenuous and contingent structure of consent, backed up by the lethal force of the state. When rioters take territory and loot, they are revealing precisely how, in a space without cops, property relations can be destroyed and things can be had for free.
On a less abstract level there is a practical and tactical benefit to looting. Whenever people worry about looting, there is an implicit sense that the looter must necessarily be acting selfishly, “opportunistically,” and in excess. But why is it bad to grab an opportunity to improve well-being, to make life better, easier, or more comfortable? Or, as Hannah Black put it on Twitter: “Cops exist so people can’t loot ie have nice things for free so idk why it’s so confusing that people loot when they protest against cops” [sic]. Only if you believe that having nice things for free is amoral, if you believe, in short, that the current (white-supremacist, settler-colonialist) regime of property is just, can you believe that looting is amoral in itself.
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Modern American police forces evolved out of fugitive slave patrols, working to literally keep property from escaping its owners. The history of the police in America is the history of black people being violently prevented from threatening white people’s property rights. When, in the midst of an anti-police protest movement, people loot, they aren’t acting non-politically, they aren’t distracting from the issue of police violence and domination, nor are they fanning the flames of an always-already racist media discourse. Instead, they are getting straight to the heart of the problem of the police, property, and white supremacy.
And would this be the same #BlackLivesMatter protest group whose members have called for the lynching and hanging of white people and cops??
Why, it’s all a resounding “Yes!”
And there you have it. The modern Democratic party in all its bullied, boot-licking, spineless glory.
Darned if those Republicans aren’t starting to look better every minute.
–Dana
Hello.
Dana (86e864) — 10/21/2015 @ 6:26 pmdoesn’t this mostly just show that the socialist party is a bought-and-paid-for whore for George Soros same as how the r party is a bought-and-paid-for whore for the chamber of commerce
happyfeet (831175) — 10/21/2015 @ 6:33 pmYou’ll know who they really are by the company they keep… who they throw in with.
Colonel Haiku (8fd90b) — 10/21/2015 @ 6:41 pmWouldn’t it be great if the BLM event somehow got held hostage by immigration reform activists or gay rights activists who seized the podium and refused to leave? But I don’t expect any of the other grievance groups to have the sand to try this.
JVW (ba78f9) — 10/21/2015 @ 6:47 pmWhen you talk about pandering remember the party who will elect as speaker a pro amnesty rhino!
jim (a9b7c7) — 10/21/2015 @ 6:53 pmIn a rational world, a group that cowers and buckles under and allows themselves to be bullied into submission would be considered weak. In our world, though, these are who half of the country wants as their leaders.
Dana (86e864) — 10/21/2015 @ 7:37 pmhere’s why it matters:
http://libertyunyielding.com/2015/10/21/disgusting-black-lives-matter-protesters-reportedly-cheered-death-of-nypd-officer-who-was-shot/
narciso (ee1f88) — 10/21/2015 @ 7:42 pmIf there was a media, as opposed to the MFM, this would be held over their head.
JD (28ecb0) — 10/21/2015 @ 8:14 pmAnd yet, the Democrats trust cops to enforce gun control laws in an even-handed manner.
Michael Ejercito (d74b61) — 10/21/2015 @ 8:38 pmYou’re makin’ this up, right? Pullin’ my leg, it’s tongue in cheek, right? Right?
ropelight (4a79a3) — 10/21/2015 @ 9:32 pmAt what point do you think Democrats will realize that a majority of Americans consider the #BLM group a joke at best and psychotic at worst? They will regret getting in bed with those lunatics.
tops116 (d094f8) — 10/21/2015 @ 9:37 pmI find them honester than the gun control movement.
Michael Ejercito (d74b61) — 10/21/2015 @ 9:56 pmI wouldn’t mind if they ran Mayor Garcetti out of town.
AZ Bob (34bb80) — 10/21/2015 @ 11:00 pmWell, as long as you’re a disarmed peasant, anyway….
I’m thinking the looters will quickly find somewhere else to be if someone decides to shoot their fucking stupid asses off for attempting to “liberate” their property.
IGotBupkis, "Si tacuisses, philosophus mansisses." (de6eea) — 10/22/2015 @ 3:39 amHere is where #BlackLivesMatter got their ideas.
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!original/talk.politics.misc/miQiPISq-4w/5wLjepxPOBEJ
Michael Ejercito (d74b61) — 10/22/2015 @ 7:59 amThe link to “defense of looting” went to an article by a ‘Willie Osterweil’. Did DeRay McKesson read from that speech? It’s a little misleading the way you’ve linked it, unless I’ve missed the linkage. What’s the connection of the “defense of looting” article to DeRay McKesson? I’m not concern trolling, just asking for clarification.
Thank you for the time you spend on this blog; I enjoy your take on affairs, even when you’re wrong (hell, I’m wrong a lot and I still like my take on world politics).
Sebastian (3afa99) — 10/22/2015 @ 8:54 amBlack Candidates Matter! Carson ’16! (Carson/Walker?)
Pouncer (d90bef) — 10/22/2015 @ 10:48 amIf black lives mattered, they would protest in left-wing black-managed ghettos. At liberal pro-choice/elective abortion. And at progressive Planned Parenthood/clinical cannibalism.
In fact, if human lives mattered, the last two would still be practiced in the “back alley”.
n.n (d200a0) — 10/22/2015 @ 10:50 amAs for government propagated violence, impose a weapons ban on government bureaucrats. That would reduce the homicide rate by nearly half, then impose a weapons ban on homicidal criminals, another significant drop, then impose a weapons ban on self-abortionists to reduce illegal abortions to a probability approaching zero.
Prosecute elective abortion (aka “pro-choice”) and clinical cannibalism (aka “Planning”) would save over one milion viable human lives… black lives, annually.
n.n (d200a0) — 10/22/2015 @ 10:56 amSo the default setting of blacks is to steal. Probably not the point he was hoping to make.
Willie Lee (565b19) — 10/23/2015 @ 7:17 am