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alp227

(31,962 posts)
Tue Oct 20, 2015, 02:37 AM Oct 2015

Garcetti's South L.A. forum ends abruptly because of Black Lives Matter protesters

Source: LA Times

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti faced throngs of hostile protesters at a community meeting Monday night as chaos descended on a gathering that had been intended as a forum for him to improve his fraught relationship with the black communities of South L.A.

The meeting at Holman United Methodist Church, attended by several hundred, was quickly overtaken by about 50 protesters from organizations including the national activist group Black Lives Matter, which was formed in the wake of high-profile police killings of young black men. As Garcetti spoke to a full house in the church's cavernous sanctuary hall, the demonstrators stood and turned their backs to him.

Toward the end of the hourlong session Garcetti, ringed by police officers, struggled to reach his car as he was swarmed by a crowd of chanting activists — and once inside the vehicle, he was forced to wait amid blaring sirens until the crowd was dispersed by the LAPD.

“The mayor has neglected, disrespected and abused the black community for far too long,” Melina Abdullah, a professor of Pan African Studies at Cal State L.A. and organizer for Black Lives Matter, said at the meeting. “We are here today because this is real for us. This is not a political game. This is not about your reelection. This is about our lives.”

Read more: http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-garcetti-forum-black-lives-matter-20151019-story.html

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gwheezie

(3,580 posts)
1. I didn't think of the tea party at all
Tue Oct 20, 2015, 02:40 AM
Oct 2015

When I read the article I was thinking good, we need some old school activism.

gwheezie

(3,580 posts)
4. And look how that pushed the GOP to the right
Tue Oct 20, 2015, 02:47 AM
Oct 2015

Now if blm and other activist groups can push the dem party to the left is that bad?

gwheezie

(3,580 posts)
6. what PR are you worried about?
Tue Oct 20, 2015, 03:04 AM
Oct 2015

I understand all kinds of tactics are required for change to occur, this way has been pretty effective in the past.
Depending on liberals to bring equality to black Americans hasnt really worked out all that well. These activists are nonviolent and participating in civil disobedience. They have put their bodies on the line. They will be arrested, beaten and condemned to force change. I admire them.
If you or me want to promote change by some other means, that's fine. We're not all going to follow the same path. I just admire these young folks so much. Within their ranks are our future leaders, this is a learning experience.

 

jtuck004

(15,882 posts)
3. "Somehow I wonder if sinking to Tea Party levels is worth it" - Cool! You have another way.White
Tue Oct 20, 2015, 02:44 AM
Oct 2015

folks need to stop being racist ass clowns, and quit paying cops to kill unarmed people of color and others.

How you gonna get 'em to stop?

SoapBox

(18,791 posts)
8. Gee...
Tue Oct 20, 2015, 09:10 AM
Oct 2015

These comments make me want to help the cause...uh, not.

When I, as a "white folk" get screamed at, yelled at, etc....then nothing is going to get done.

SCREAMING will not solve the problems...SCREAMING "white folks" will not solve the problems.

brush

(53,475 posts)
10. Ahhh . . . BLM's tactics did make Bernie aware of the need to address these issues
Tue Oct 20, 2015, 09:34 AM
Oct 2015

He probably would not have hired a black campaign coordinator or mentioned BLM and Sandra Bland's name in the debate if not for them.

These tactics are not for everyone. Those reluctant to take part in street activism can help in other ways with logistics, phone banking, donations etc.

Le Taz Hot

(22,271 posts)
12. I have to correct you there.
Tue Oct 20, 2015, 10:22 AM
Oct 2015

Symone Sanders was in the process of being hired when the Portland BLM action happened. Having said that, Sanders did sit down with representatives from the BLM movement and has adjusted his message to include those issues.

 

jtuck004

(15,882 posts)
11. Well, let's see. Since black folks are being murdered now, one can't say nothing is being done, eh?.
Tue Oct 20, 2015, 10:14 AM
Oct 2015

A bunch of white folk being racists, all along, isn't nothing, now is it? Killing and beating black folk with abandon, flying the flag of slavery from their government building and teaching hatred in their schools and homes.

"Nothing" is not being done - people are being killed. White folks are as racist as they ever have been, and think something is different because the plantations are no longer so obvious. That's something, eh?

So what is the white excuse now? Offended because you are being yelled at? Think of how offended you might be if your skin was black, and white people like you were trying to kill you from the moment you were born, charge you extra for loans just because you are black, send you to prison in far greater numbers - for the same crimes that white folks ignore when other white folks commit the same behavior- deny you opportunity...

think of how offended you might be when you have to sit your child down and tell them that no matter how well they do, some white person may come along and kill them for nothing other than the color of their skin. And then you watch as your child begins to hate their self, and you cry.

White folks are all sensitive about whether they are being yelled at.

For crying fucking out loud - you white people have everything. Isn't that enough? Now you want black folk not to yell at you for killing them?

Black folk are so mean to you people...poor, poor white folk.

Maybe they are screaming because nothing else has gotten your attention, and too many black folks are still losing their lives to white hands.

 

Comrade Grumpy

(13,184 posts)
14. Oh, you black folks!
Tue Oct 20, 2015, 12:36 PM
Oct 2015

If only you would...

Nah, unlike the poster to whom I'm responding, I'm not going to slur an entire race of people.

LiberalArkie

(15,686 posts)
16. Results
Tue Oct 20, 2015, 02:24 PM
Oct 2015

On Tue Oct 20, 2015, 02:11 PM an alert was sent on the following post:

Well, let's see. Since black folks are being murdered now, one can't say nothing is being done, eh?.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=1238314

REASON FOR ALERT

This post is disruptive, hurtful, rude, insensitive, over-the-top, or otherwise inappropriate.

ALERTER'S COMMENTS

"white people like you were trying to kill you from the moment you were born"

We need to get stuff like this off this site - look at the big picture - this doesn't help, only divides us further, and makes us a joke to the outside world.

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