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Showing Original Post only (View all)Marissa Janae Johnson doesn’t ‘give a f*ck’ if protest at Seattle Bernie Sanders rally drives people [View all]
On Monday, 24-year-old Black Lives Matter protester Marissa Janae Johnson told Elon James White and Imani Gandi of This Week in Blackness that she doesnt give a fuck if her strident interruption of a Bernie Sanders rally in Seattle has hurt her cause in the eyes of white people.
Last Sunday, Johnson and fellow Black Lives Matter of Seattle protester Mara Jacqeline Willaford disrupted a rally in support of Medicaid expansion in Washington state as Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) was getting up to speak. When the two women grabbed the microphone and screamingly insisted they were being reasonable by refusing to let the rally proceed, Sanders left the stage.
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The stunt has left many on the left at odds. Johnson and Willafords supporters claim that the two women are acting with the urgency required in a situation where black peoples lives and bodies are being destroyed by police on a daily basis.
Critics say that the interruption amounted to little more than a clownish tantrum that drove as many people away from the Black Lives Matter cause as it could have attracted.
Johnson says she doesnt care, ultimately, whether the tactics are alienating.
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Last Sunday, Johnson and fellow Black Lives Matter of Seattle protester Mara Jacqeline Willaford disrupted a rally in support of Medicaid expansion in Washington state as Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) was getting up to speak. When the two women grabbed the microphone and screamingly insisted they were being reasonable by refusing to let the rally proceed, Sanders left the stage.
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The stunt has left many on the left at odds. Johnson and Willafords supporters claim that the two women are acting with the urgency required in a situation where black peoples lives and bodies are being destroyed by police on a daily basis.
Critics say that the interruption amounted to little more than a clownish tantrum that drove as many people away from the Black Lives Matter cause as it could have attracted.
Johnson says she doesnt care, ultimately, whether the tactics are alienating.
Surprise! Surprise! Surprise
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Marissa Janae Johnson doesn’t ‘give a f*ck’ if protest at Seattle Bernie Sanders rally drives people [View all]
Feeling the Bern
Aug 2015
OP
Ok, aparently, you've already been alerted on. Hope I get called to jury duty. (nt)
stone space
Aug 2015
#37
I think not giving a fuck is not much of a tactic to BLM cause… She's an imposter
MrMickeysMom
Aug 2015
#13
It's pretty clear a large number of Bernie Sanders supporters don't care if they alienate people...
KittyWampus
Aug 2015
#14
A rare few here give a fuck about people of color posting on this board.
Gravitycollapse
Aug 2015
#26