Marissa Janae Johnson doesn’t ‘give a f*ck’ if protest at Seattle Bernie Sanders rally ...

[DonViejo]

Marissa Janae Johnson doesn’t ‘give a f*ck’ if protest at Seattle Bernie Sanders rally drives people away

DAVID FERGUSON
11 AUG 2015 AT 14:59 ET

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 doesn’t “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.

The stunt has left many on the left at odds. Johnson and Willaford’s supporters claim that the two women are acting with the urgency required in a situation where black people’s 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.

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[Dawgs]

1. So then what was the point?

If my tactic is to go to a rally to scream at people so that they hear me, shouldn't I want them to care about what I'm screaming about?

[Marr]

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[HassleCat]

2. Seems OK to me

They can do it by themselves. They don't need help from white people. As long as they feel very intensely, and yell very loudly, they will save the world.

[Warren DeMontague]

3. She's drunk on her own gibberish, clearly.

Reading that, it's pretty apparent that her self-centered tantrum had nothing to do with bernie sanders or police injustice, but was basically a grudge match exercise in score-settling with the "white seattle liberals" she has living in her own head.

[Eleanors38]

6. Explains the Palin button.

[haikugal]

4. I never thought she did... give a fuck about what white folk think, she clearly hates them. n/t

[hughee99]

5. I agree the situation is urgent.

That being the case, I question their judgement in taking this issue NOT to the current president, NOT to the Speaker of the house, the senate majority leader, the Attorney General, or any one of the Governors in states where this has been a very large and pressing issue, but to a Senator from one of the "whitest" states in the country, running for an opportunity to run for president a year and a half from now, and running well behind the frontrunner, who is also someone they don't seem to have taken the issue to.

It's like having your house catch fire and, instead of calling the local fire department, calling a cousin 5 states away and asking them what they're going to do about it. Even if they desperately care about the issue and know how to put out a fire, they're not in a position to help you very much in the immediate future.

I understand people are angry, and I understand there's a huge problem, I just don't understand how this does much to fix it.

[Supersedeas]

15. She took it to some ole white guy who cared enough to give her the stage and the mike

[HooptieWagon]

7. But of course. It was all about HER.

She's left evidence of her narcissism all over social media.

[Eleanors38]

8. Celebrity culture. Her whiff will pass...

"It doesn't matter if it's bad art as long as it's fast-moving stink." -- Artly Snuff, Uranium Savages

[romanic]

9. Well I don't give a fuck about you either gurl

and I'm sure any other black/biracial folks who want to fight inequality will either. You're 5 seconds of fame are up, buh-bye.

[magical thyme]

10. lol. if by "her cause" she means the fight to end racial injustice, she hasn't driven away white

liberals. We stand together. It's the only way we win.

If by "her cause" she means her personal try at 15 minutes of fame, well she's made herself look like a narcissistic idiot in front of the world and nobody with a brain will touch her. But hey, whatever. She got her 15 minutes. Hopefully it will be up sooner rather than later.

[GoneFishin]

12. +1

[Vincardog]

13. I believe her cause is to force POC to choose between the cause and the Democratic party.

[jeff47]

14. Urgency that means doing nothing for 16 months.

Sanders can't actually do anything until January 2017. So she's acting with urgency against someone who can't do anything for 16 months.

Makes perfect sense.