In Nevada, Jeb Bush rally interrupted by Black Lives Matter demonstrators

[Newsjock]

Source: Los Angeles Times

NORTH LAS VEGAS -- A Jeb Bush town hall Wednesday ended on a testy note, as Black Lives Matter protesters clashed with the presidential candidates' supporters after he faced a series of challenging questions.

Bush, responding to a woman's query about the disproportionate number of minorities killed by police and their treatment in the criminal justice system, said there was no question that racism still existed in the United States and that leaders needed to engage in communities that felt disenfranchised. He then turned to his education record as Florida's governor, raising achievement scores among minority youth.

“I have a record of empowering people in communities that” were told “they had no chance,” Bush said, ending the town hall. He did not deliver a closing statement, as he typically does, and quickly made his way to an exit, greeting supporters along the way.

Behind him, a few dozen protesters raised their fists and began chanting “Black Lives Matter!” A handful of Bush supporters turned toward them and chanted “All Lives Matter!” and “White Lives Matter!” Two women -- a protester and a Bush supporter -- stood a few feet from the candidate with their middle fingers extended in each other's faces.

Read more: http://www.latimes.com/nation/politics/trailguide/la-na-trailguide-08122015-htmlstory.html

[LovingA2andMI]

1. Cannot stand Jeb but....

This interrupting is getting quite OLD....

[secondwind]

2. I was thinking the same thing.....

[LovingA2andMI]

5. Why this has and is getting OLD...

Shades of Brown People (Except of a Very Few Actual Very Dark Brown) Lives have matter since we're taken in chains and by force from the Motherland of Africa, stripped of our heritage, threw on boats, made to lay in human waste, tossed off the boat if we're sick or died in the sea and sold like animals into slavery.

Let's start with that! Until we are starting with this historical fact and move forward to the violence onto our community by ALL PEOPLE (Caucasian and Otherwise) including Shades of Brown People on other Shades of Brown People sadly.....this 15 minutes of attention seeking interrupting BS is NOT SOLVING THE PROBLEM!

[marble falls]

38. It needs to start with slavery, the Civil War (inluding the Dixie rag), Separate but Equal....

Segregation of the Armed Forces, night riders, the KKK, the burning out of entire black communities all over the country in the '20s, .........

[Fred Sanders]

11. Some folks said the same thing about the Selma protestors and MLK once ago, didn't they?

Growing tired of protests by liberal black protestors...all two to date...that is funny stuff.

[MADem]

15. Yes, indeedy. If these troublesome young protesters would just wait in line,

why, the good people in charge will get to them....eventually.

Didn't Bernie Sanders call for a revolution? Why are people complaining when these young people fire up a few demands for one?

smh!

[Fred Sanders]

16. It is like black folk have to ask permission to protest where white folk happen to be. And it is

shocking to find out permission is not needed.

[MADem]

19. "How DARE you!! Get OFF!! GET OFF!!! Shut UP!!!! What NERVE~!!!!"

I have to admit, I find the reactions to these protesters a bit funny--the absolute OUTRAGE that someone would interrupt a favorite, like they're farting before the king!

Maybe now people will start to realize that #BLM really DON'T give a hoot about electoral politics--they just want the issues at the forefront of the national debate, they want the issues included in political platforms, and they're going to keep calling attention to the dead kids being murdered by law enforcement and yay-hoos with guns and attitudes until the conversation comes around to these concerns. If they want them to "GET OFF!" and "SHUT UP!!!" they'd do well to give them what they want--a national conversation and concrete plans of action.

Is there video of this event? I'd love to see it...!

[restorefreedom]

40. just to clarify

you did 't say this, but some might. bernie was not one of the ones who complained about the protest, even at his own event. he continued to highlight his position on racial and economic equality.

[MADem]

44. I get what you are saying....he's calling for revolution!

His supporters, though--they're saying SHUT UP!!!

Good article on this very issue: http://www.occupy.com/article/open-letter-bernie-sanders-supporters

[restorefreedom]

45. hey i think there might be an op on the occupy ltr

thx for the link

[LovingA2andMI]

17. No what is "Funny Stuff" FRED

Is you Trolling each post I make. Except it isn't. The facts are REAL and you are not worth the time.

[Fred Sanders]

41. Honestly, I have zero care who you are, but your posts really do highlight why we need BLK.

[840high]

20. Yes it is.

[brush]

39. Unbelievable! WTH would you be against protesting Republicans?

One of the big complaints about the Sanders protests was that they should have been protesting against the Republicans.

Well now they are and it's getting old to you?

[uhnope]

3. hmmm. From a POC in the article:

“We may have our gripes but there are other ways to deal with them,” he said. “I'm not a fan of the president, but he is the president, I would never do to him what these folks did to Jeb. There are better ways to affect change then yell at a town hall.”

[SoapBox]

4. Welcome to Bernie's World, Jebbie.

...agreed. These antics are tiresome.

[jwirr]

6. I think that the protesters may have gotten off lucky. They could have gotten torn to pieces by

a R crowd. This crowd probably had some real white supremacists in it.

[ruffburr]

7. bwahhhhhahhh-

I can't stop laughing , Jeb exists stage right two pissed off women flipping each other off, White Republicans crying White lives matter, Really? And some people have the nerve to say Bernie didn't handle this situation well? Really? Seems to me that Bernie's actions and progressive people's understanding of the reasons for BLM actions diffused the situation to some degree, Above by far the Jeb and friends kerffuflle. Lmao

[Fred Sanders]

13. No, not at all. Any violence by the racists will be met with peace.

[AuntPatsy]

22. Sure it will, as you can tell I lack the faith you obviously have in humans to behave as well

human....

But honestly I hope I'm wrong and your faith in this peaceful outcome is not misplaced....

[Fred Sanders]

43. And I hope whatever hope you have is a little more optimistic and fact based.

[riversedge]

9. A few tweets..

Seema MehtaVerified account
?@LATSeema

Competing chants of "Black Lives Matter!" and a few "White Lives Matter" and "All Lives Matter"


........................

LasVegasSun ?@LasVegasSun 50m50 minutes ago

In North Las Vegas, Jeb Bush challenged by Black Lives Matter activists http://bit.ly/1IIGGNU

[Fred Sanders]

14. This is what heroes look like, not remaining silent in the face of of xenophobia and hate and lies.

No more political business as usual.

[giftedgirl77]

51. We should also point out that they not all black...

Psst you want to know why? Bc, the BLM movement encompasses everyone with brown skin. If you ain’t white you might as well be black.

[riversedge]

10. Hillary's campaign responded to Jeb and voting rights...

http://lasvegassun.com/news/2015/aug/12/north-las-vegas-jeb-bush-challenged-black-lives-ma/

....Bush's appearance at Pearson Community Center in North Las Vegas, where he addressed a crowd of about 150 people, didn't go unnoticed by Clinton's campaign, which sent out a statement criticizing Bush for curtailing early voting rights in Florida.

"It is ironic that Jeb Bush chose to host a town hall at an early vote polling place as he shut down similar locations in Florida," the statement said. "As governor, Jeb Bush signed into law legislation limiting early voting hours and eliminating sites like Pearson as early vote sites because they did not meet overly restrictive location requirements."

[Fred Sanders]

12. BLM and Clinton protested Jeb's pandering to Iowa and NH GOP voter-idiots...it is a good thing.

And if BLM field operatives are co-ordinating against the GOP, the true enemy of us all, after their vigorous and productive private meeting, that also is a good thing.

[glinda]

21. Did they get onstage and start screaming right in front of Jeb?

Just wondering.Or were they off of the stage altogether?

[BumRushDaShow]

24. Jeb is paying big $$$ for a security detail

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/07/17/jeb-bushs-father-and-brother-have-a-security-detail-now-he-does-too/

Is Bernie?

[glinda]

48. Did not know that. Do not believe Bernie had any in Seattle nor any provided there possibly...

[BumRushDaShow]

49. I hate to say but if Bernie is going to run as a "real" candidate

as opposed to a "protest candidate" attempting to get the voice of the left into the national narrative, then he is going to have to hitch up his pants and get some (sad to say) "professionals" in there. He still has some time but time is marching on and the debates will be coming up in another couple months.

[glinda]

50. The "protest candidate" thing is not from his campaign but from opponents attempting to demean him.

I do agree he needs to figure out how to get some Security detail though as he is a "real" candidate.

[BumRushDaShow]

52. Once a candidate is within 120 days of the general election

I believe they will automatically get Secret Service protection (if they request it).

[Fred Sanders]

42. Funny stuff..still no idea what BLM want?

[alcibiades_mystery]

18. Mmmmmmm....

[joshcryer]

23. WTF is with the poor Jeb style comments?

WTF is happening. I'm so confused.

[Chemisse]

26. I know!

And here I'm thinking, 'it couldn't have happened to a better candidate.'

[joshcryer]

29. I know, right?

WTF. Is protest now wrong? I'm blown away.

[mcar]

36. Amazing, isn't it?

Now Jeb and his supporters' feelings are more important than BLM. This after many on this board complained that BLM wasn't protesting Republican candidates.

Now they are and it's "how rude!" Sometimes I think the world has started spinning in reverse.

[DonCoquixote]

25. A common quote is "well behaved women rarely make history."

It could also be said that well behaved people of all sorts do not either, because those people can be safely ignored, and the forces in power know it.

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

30. They might not make history (which, after all, is typically journalism writ big,

with 'if it bleeds it leads' talking about revolutions, assassinations, wars) but they do actually create change. The world is full of people who have made enormous changes peacefully and quietly, disrupting the status quo while not even being noticed by those in ''power".

[magical thyme]

28. let this protest offer a model for future protests by BLM and others

They allowed Bush to speak, versus grabbing the microphone and shutting down the event.
They chanted "Black Lives Matter," versus screaming "You're a White Supremacist"
They protested somebody whose policies need to be stopped and reversed.
They got their message across in a way that the audience could potentially be open to.

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

31. They might have been aiming at a different audience.

It was suggested to me that the actual audience for the Seattle protest was not the same audience that was AT the Seattle event, that the target audience for the performance in Seattle was folks out on social media who would enjoy seeing the 'liberal crowd' being called white supremacists. Which casts that protest in a different light, since the effectiveness would not be judged by how the audience present responded, but by how the online audience reacted. At the Bush protest, the intended audience might actually have been the audience present.

[riderinthestorm]

35. + 1 nt

[dembotoz]

32. Happy to see it has branched out

Generally supportive but the Bernie and O'Malley protests gave me pause
More supportive again

[DinahMoeHum]

33. Well, that's more like it, BLM.

Get in EVERY FUCKING CANDIDATE'S face and rant, OK? That's all I want.

[demwing]

34. Exactly^^^

Let's encourage BLM protestors to engage all candidates (and double up on the Republicans!)

[fredamae]

37. I've been all over the place

in thinking about this movement.
I have been shocked. I have "heard" the urgency in the protesters voices. I have been humbled by what I Did not know was-nay; Is happening. I am learning. I was indignant over the way the protesters treated Bernie, O'Malley et al.
I have listened to others criticisms and have voiced my own.
I was wrong.
In my opinion:
Tell me how anyone, but especially Black Lives....is Supposed to get Anyone to LISTEN when an entire race(s) of People have been Brutalized, Oppressed and all that Ignored, told to wait-we care..but not Now, when the laws rules and policies of a Nation are designed to create division, poverty and constant crises? What the hell right do WE have to criticize when I'd be willing to bet if the Shoe was on the Other foot (white privilege) we would likely do the Same thing?
Democracy IS Noisy. It can and Must be Disruptive at times when ALL else is Failed. When people are made uncomfortable...I know I Listen.
Sometimes we, ourselves are oblivious to all that going on all around us.
Do I like it? It doesn't Matter. This isn't about My likes/dislikes. This is a response to Hundreds of Years of Systemic, Legalized Murder, Torture and Oppression of Our Fellow Americans. Our friends. Our families. I am deeply troubled it Had to come to this..over and over and over again throughout our history. Because it is a signal, we Never learn from our own terrible errors.
It's time we grow up. Our help is needed. Can we please respond with understanding and less judgment?

There is a solution. We all work together. Together we Stand because Black. Lives. Matter. As much as yours and mine.
I support this movement as contentious as it is.

Imo-We must Stop shaking our heads, stop being so damned judgmental and grab a sign, don a t-shirt, pick up the phone, get involved in your town/city government..make sure policies, laws, rules treat all equally. Work toward police and justice reform from the bottom up. Become a part of the solution and Recognize when we are being Intentionally Divided for Political gain. Remember always: Many Hands Make a Light Load.
Nicole Sandler replayed this yesterday on Radio Or Not:...Rev. Dr. William Barber addressing Our Moral Crises-circa 2009 says it like it Is. Please listen to the Whole speech:
http://bluenationreview.com/americas-moral-crisis-rev-dr-william-barbers-epic-speech-aft-convention/

#BlackLivesMatter
#WeStandTogether

Thank you for being patient as I evolve. I'm trying hard to learn and it's a hard lesson when one begins to "feel the knowing" of the horrors with-in our Own country. But, all that doesn't matter and is nothing compared to Living this everyday with no relief in sight. How Loud will WE force them to get Before WE Listen?
My words this morning may reflect I have a good way to go yet-they may be a measurement of the distance I have to go in learning and understanding. I'm trying. I am working hard.
#RiseUp

[Taitertots]

46. Subverting democracy by shouting down your opposition... This won't end well

When you accept subversion of democracy/free speech as a valid political tactic, then you're going to have to deal with other people doing it back to you.

Are they going to complain when Jeb's supporters storm their meetings and shout down their leaders? Is that a valid "protest" tactic now?

[Throd]

47. I agree. I hope this doesn't become a "thing".