"the resurrection is coming and Christ is sovereign." Who is BLMS's Marissa "Johnson" Jenae?

[uhnope]

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Judge for yourself but this post today by one of the two BLM activists who stormed the stage at the Sanders rally seems pretty kooky to me. It reads as from a pretty unstable person at best and ready to go postal at worst.

Please note...

I am only as respectable as the cross.

I am only as apologetic as he cross.

I am only as concerned with worldy powers as the cross.

I am only as concerned about upward mobility as the cross.

I am only as neutral, as polite, and as comforting as the cross.

I am only as rational as the cross.

This is my offering. The Spirit convicts, directs, and affirms me.

But this shit is scandalous. That is the call of discipleship.

I live like the resurrection is coming and Christ is sovereign. It is utter foolishness. It is life.

I do not worship Caesar. I cannot partake in Babylon. I cannot serve two master.

Believe, I have made my choice.

‪#?narrowistheroad‬
‪#?blacklivesmatter‬

https://www.facebook.com/marissa.jenae.johnson?fref=ts

It might explain those earrings:

[Eleanors38]

1. Were they BOTH Palin backers?

[TheBlackAdder]

62. There's a photo on the other thread, she sports triangle Thong-wearing TWERKING earrings. nt

[Archae]

2. I just saw her Facebook.

She's a radical.

No logic, no acceptance of anything except doing things *HER* way, and a fundy idiot.

[LiberalElite]

3. Seems like she's as grandiose as Trump. nt

[QC]

4. She's a Sarah Palin groupie, too.

Wonder if the people here who have been singing the praises of a right wing fundamentalist troll will back off and think a bit.

Probably not.

[hifiguy]

9. Of course not.

For some, identity politics overrule everything, including facts and reason.

[LittleBlue]

37. Exactly. Mind boggling how

anyone fell for this farce.

[passiveporcupine]

68. They can't find anything real to bash Bernie with

so they grab onto this because it's sensational. Desperation.

[jalan48]

26. They are in hiding right now.

[QC]

27. Yep. Her fan club has fallen silent. n/t

[hifiguy]

5. Nutty as a goddamn squirrel turd.

[truebrit71]

7. ROFL!

That's pretty nutty!

[restorefreedom]

45. lol. nt

[pnwmom]

6. Bernie needs to develop a plan to keep people like this off his stage and away from his mic.

He shouldn't do any more events that can be disrupted like this, unless he's willing to have the police take the disrupters away. He had no problems at the larger rally later in Seattle because it was better controlled. (There are always disrupters ready at any Seattle rally if there are no controls.)

[brush]

11. And so should BLM

It's seems that this person, if that "cross" stuff is actually taken from her facebook page and is true, has

latched on and appropriated the BLM moniker and is causing huge problems. You can't really control crazy.

Too bad it's at the expense of BLM.

Why protest in Seattle at a Sanders event? Why not in Cleveland at the repug debate?

[glinda]

21. He needs security now.

[Nay]

23. Agreed. This Republican fundy nutcase could have killed him. nt

[NBachers]

42. Ambassador Hotel, 1968

[hedda_foil]

43. The Ambassador Hotel, 1968. I saw it. God Damn it!

I know I'm far from alone here in that.

There's" another thing that looks familiar. People like this idiot Jenae woman aren't just playing (for pay or otherwise?)into the narrative that Bernie is the enemy of BLM. They remind me of the type of agents provocateurs who actively try to foment riots. And as soon as that starts, the militarized KKKops to shut them down and VOILA! The old,white and frightened (and their bigoted offspring) scurry to hide behind the tough guy Repukes. The Hillaryites put out scads of propaganda to make sure that the media and their funders know what kind of disaster Bernie is with black voters.

cui bene?

[NBachers]

48. Healter Skelter

[Ken Burch]

55. You were at the Ambassador that night?

I'm so sorry you had to be a witness to that horribly soul-crushing, dream-strangling event.

[Aerows]

88. Heaven help us all

if it gets to that.

Seriously, security should become tighter around Bernie. It does *NOBODY* - supporters, op-posers, Democrats, Republicans, everyone in between - to have political leaders come under physical attack.

I wouldn't piss on Donald Trump if he was on fire, but I would say the same thing if it had happened to him - get better security so that some lunatic can't physically harm or worse, kill you.

[Aerows]

91. Yes, indeed, glinda

The last thing we need is physical harm coming to *ANY* Presidential campaigner. I have nothing but contempt for the batch of dolts running for the Republican nomination, but I don't want to see them physically harmed.

That is not how democracy works, and not how civilized society works. Unfortunately, there are whackos in this world that don't give a damn about either.

[Blue State Bandit]

31. I saw it. Didn't want to comment on it.

I guess it does go to motivation. Just be careful. Bringing religion into this discussion before the Palin button issue sinks in, may derail the discussion. The Church is very powerful in Black Community, and it would be wise to keep out of the discussion unless she was running with a dominionist set affiliated with the Palin's or "The Family". But there are definitely here a few threads to pull here.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027060303

[yourout]

32. "Why not in Cleveland at the repug debate?.."..they probably did not want to be another statistic..

Try it there and you might end up in the morgue.

[yardwork]

77. Yes, Sanders needs better security.

That was my immediate reaction to to the incident.

All kinds of people are attracted to presidential candidates, and some of them are mentally ill. Some are violent.

[csziggy]

8. Anything about the other woman - Mara Jacqueline Willaford?

I got some really odd vibes off her.

In my opinion both women were overly aggressive and obnoxious. The way they were screaming in Sen. Sanders' face when he was just asking for a few minutes was far out of line. They would have done better to agree to only take a limited amount of time at the rally instead of running off a candidate that could be a huge help to their cause.

[QC]

10. She's a convicted embezzler.

http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/tia-oso-protester-who-interrupted-martin-omalley-is-convicted-embezzler-7505469

[csziggy]

13. That's not the same woman

Mara Jacqueline Willaford was the second woman at the Seattle Rally where the two women screamed at Sen. Sanders and his supporters until Sanders walked off.

According to the article you posted, Tia Oso interrupted a Town Hall that had both Sen. Sanders and Martin O'Malley. Different events.

Mara Jacqueline Willaford is the woman in the picture at the top of this article:
http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20150808/NEWS03/150809156

[QC]

16. Oops, that's right.

The embezzler disrupted another event.

[csziggy]

18. That's OK - I hadn't seen coverage of the other event interruption

I let my brain veg out yesterday by putting the Sharknado series on. I needed the down time, no thinking, no stress.

Then I slept through the morning news so missed any updates.

[cherokeeprogressive]

38. Mara Jacqueline Willaford - Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/mara.willaford

[csziggy]

39. Her page isn't visible

Maybe because I'm not signed into Facebook, maybe she's shut it down.

Thanks for the effort, though!

[cherokeeprogressive]

40. Maybe you need to be signed in... I was just looking at it.

Hilariously racist posts about #whitegirlsdoitbetter.

[csziggy]

41. While I have a Facebook account I hate to sign into it

So I'll skip this for now.

I suspect the next time I sign in to FB it will be to unfriend everyone so I'll stop getting daily updates on people's status or how their games are doing.

[romanic]

12. Someone has a Messiah Complex.

[moondust]

14. Have slogan, will tarnish.

[romanic]

17. Wait she supports Sarah Palin?

are you for real?

[stillwaiting]

19. I'm looking for confirmation of that. I assumed based on a prior post in this thread that it had

been discovered.

I'll be deleting my post until further confirmation of that fact is given.

I hate assuming things.

[HooptieWagon]

22. Yes, it's for real.

She mentioned on FB having a Sarah Palin button on her backpack, and signed off with Palin 2016.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027060303

[romanic]

24. Yep just read it earlier.

Truly makes you go "hmmmm" doesn't it?

[roguevalley]

25. her face book page

also this

https://www.facebook.com/marissa.jenae.johnson?fref=ts

[hifiguy]

20. Reading that again it has a

strange note of Charlie Manson-ishness to it.

[RKP5637]

34. Yep, it does! n/t

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

28. Mad as a box of frogs, that one.

[Skittles]

29. gawd

she needs therapy

[RKP5637]

33. I thought she seemed wacky as hell when I first saw the video. Way over the top and

so excited, like manic. Nothing anyone could have said would have pleased her. The comments on her facebook page have been taken down when I just looked.

[LuvNewcastle]

73. a little thorazine wouldn't hurt, either

[RKP5637]

30. Getting just like Westboro Church! n/t

[Roy Rolling]

35. Best analogy I've heard. N/T

[Maven]

36. She needs help.

[kwolf68]

44. Could be a great paying gig

Freakazoid, evangelical black women. She could easily become congressman or get a show on Fox.

[Arugula Latte]

46. Suuuuure Jesus is coming back. Any day now.

Yeah, that's the ticket.

That's TOTALLY going to happen and is not in any way, shape or form some primitive myth.

Nope.

He's on his way. Count on it.

[Nobel_Twaddle_III]

47. Let's get to the truth of it. call Seattle police and demand their arrest.206-625-5011

[stone space]

58. LOL!

[awoke_in_2003]

49. Christians aren't known

for their brainpower.

[stone space]

57. Wow!

Christians aren't known for their brainpower.

[Starry Messenger]

50. You seem totally unfamiliar with American Black Christians.

Bree Newsom also prayed a psalm when she removed the Confederate flag. People attacking these women on the basis of faith are showing some severe unfamiliarity with things like Liberation Theology. I'm an atheist, but progressive people of faith are not "unstable."

[Gravitycollapse]

51. People are looking for any excuse to demonize the protesters.

I'm all for a careful analysis of what happened. But most of those critical of the protesters seem to be solely interested in character assassination. The indignation is about ideological entrenchment, not what's right and wrong.

[PoutrageFatigue]

65. Go ahead and "carefully analyse the phrase" "White supremacist liberals" for us if you please?

Two fucking whacked out nutjobs attacked a guy that has a better civil rights record than ANYONE ELSE RUNNING FOR THE NOMINATION, but sure, WE'RE the ones engaging in character assassination....

[passiveporcupine]

69. And some people

are looking for any excuse to demonize Bernie.

[cali]

71. while I think her support for Palin in high school is irrelevant

she thoroughly discredited herself by making clear her intent to degrade and demean Sanders. She named her protest bow down bernie. She demanded that this Jewish man who lost much of his family to the Holocaust, grovel and publicly apologize for unspecified actions stagnation. She refused to shake his hand. She shoved and screamed- and more.

[reorg]

85. When Willy Brandt was bowing down ...

was he degrading and demeaning himself?

... the first German Chancellor to visit a country which the Germans had brutally attacked and occupied ... where the Nazis crammed hundreds of thousands of Jews into the ghetto, deported them to concentration camps and killed them. It was a city which the Nazis had completely destroyed. Brandt knew he needed an exceptional gesture with which he would ask the Polish people for forgiveness. He found the gesture at the right moment.

The 'Warsaw Genuflection'



Willy Brandt honors the Jewish and Polish victims at the Monument to the Ghetto Heroes in Warsaw

As he laid a wreath at the Monument to the Ghetto Heroes, he did not just bow his head in honor of the victims, he fell to his knees and remained there for more than a minute. There was complete silence. One could only hear the clicking of the cameras. The pictures of what became known as the Warsaw Genuflection traveled around the world, and became one of the best-known images in modern German history.

http://www.dw.com/en/willy-brandt-german-european-and-cosmopolitan/a-17300003

[Arugula Latte]

67. Whatever the color of her skin, she believes pretty nutty things.

I'm not going to pretend otherwise.

[stone space]

72. Folks say that about the Berrigan brothers and the Plowshares movement, don't they?

she believes pretty nutty things.

Right here on DU.

Going after protesters over their religion doesn't reflect well on the Bernie campaign.

It makes the Bernie campaign appear actively anti-Christian.

Not a good move.

[XemaSab]

74. yup

n/t

[stone space]

52. Is Bernie's Religion fair game, too? (nt)

[Arugula Latte]

66. All religion is fair game. If you believe in outlandish supernatural things backed by zero evidence,

well, why should those beliefs not be questioned?

Bernie is of Jewish background but doesn't believe the Abrahamic supernatural nonsense. Very, very refreshing in a candidate.

[still_one]

76. It wouldn't matter as long as he believes in seperation of church and state

[stone space]

79. Yeah, I was just told in another forum that Fr. Phil Berrigan was a bigot.

All religion is fair game.

You guys are really having a field day with this.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1218209136

[cleanhippie]

80. Anothe shotgun blast of wilfull ignorance.

No one called Phil Berrigan a bigot but YOU. No. One. But. You.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1218209136#post12

Reading comprehension saves lives... And brain cells.

[H2O Man]

86. That's rather sad.

While I am admittedly a bit subjective -- I was friends with both Phillip and Daniel (casually acquainted with James) -- they were outstanding men.

[stone space]

87. I went to grad school in Baltimore, ...

...so I knew Phil and Liz and the rest of the gang at Jonah House.

Had Phil as a cellmate more than once.

He was a great man.

And DU makes me want to...

[H2O Man]

90. Very good!

I remember once, back in the 1980's Reagan era, a television host saying how "dangerous" that Phillip and Daniel were. A guest responded, "They are the most Christ-like men on earth today. Thus, if the US government decides to crucify them, you'll feature it on your show." Not an exact quote, but pretty close. It was beautiful.

I can remember, back when I was first here, some folks trashing both John Lennon and Gandhi. They are people without understanding -- there seems no other explanation for those who contribute such nonsense here.

[ladyVet]

78. It is if he wanted to force it on me.

I have no problems with people who practice whatever religion. It's when they can't leave it out of everyday conversations and believe they are right and the rest of us better believe it too that we have problems.

I've never seen any indication the Saunders wants to use his heritage in any way, other than as a basis for his personal faith. I don't even know if he attends religious services of any kind.

This woman seems to have a messiah complex, believing she is as put upon as Christ was, with all those references to the cross. Many Christians seem to believe this. It tends to make them crazy. I've seen it up-close-and-personal, and it's not pretty. I was abused emotionally by a fundie freak husband. He nearly drove me to suicide (twice) before I was able to be strong enough to leave him.

[GreatGazoo]

53. An earlier performance:

[daredtowork]

59. So that's how to get around the 2 minute two minute time limit! nt

[GreatGazoo]

61. Who knew ?! n/t

[stone space]

54. For some variety, here's some white activists praying in public.

Catonsville Nine

Uploaded on May 17, 2006

17 May 1968 9 people walked into a Selective Service Office, took hundreds of draft files from a cabinet, took them outside, doused them with homemade napalm and burned them in the name of peace.

[stone space]

56. Be careful what you wear to a protest.

It might explain those earrings:

The whole world's watching!

[Depaysement]

60. Her faith doesn't concern me

It would be an asset if used as a call to good, the way Reverend Pinckney and others before him used it, as a means of progress.

[stone space]

75. Well, to be fair, when the Religion room had a thread commemorating Rev. Pinckney, ...

...calling it "religion at it's best", the thread pretty immediately turned to the bashing of Black folks.

It was a pretty fast pivot, and started by one of the individuals attacking religion right here in this thread.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1218206304

[cleanhippie]

81. It sure was a fast pivot, but started only by YOU!

It's laughable that you seem to not grasp the fact that anyone can see these threads and read what YOU wrote. Anyone with even a modicum of intelligence can see that the ONLY person who even brought up the subject was YOU! And now you rant that others are responsible for it?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1218&pid=209142


Keep blasting away. You're bound to hit the side of the barn eventually.

[stone space]

82. Anybody can click on your link and see your lie.

Anyone with even a modicum of intelligence can see that the ONLY person who even brought up the subject was YOU!

[cleanhippie]

83. Thats what I said. Your assertion is totally fabricated.

But keep blasting away, it's what you do best.

[Betty Karlson]

63. So... Jesus made her do it?

That would make her a blasphemer in my church, saying nonsense like that.

[GusBob]

64. She's no prophet

aint no Shakespeare

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

70. She sounds like a complete nutjob to me.

[hifiguy]

84. The more I read about this loony bird

the more apparent it is that there are an awful lot of bats in her belfry. A critical mass of bats, in fact.

[Aerows]

89. She is nuttier

than a fruitcake in a pecan pie factory.