"NetRoots Nation Confrontation Wasn't About #BlackLivesMatter At All"
by Bruce A. Dixon, managing editor
Black Agenda Report
News, information and analysis from the black left.
07/23/2015
NetRoots bills itself as “the largest gathering of the progressive movement” in this country. Unless you think the Democratic party IS the progressive movement, or that all “progressives” are Democrats, this is nonsense. I know, I've been to NetRoots.
What it actually is, is the largest gathering of paid and wannabe paid Democratic party activists, Democratic candidates and Democratic campaign managers, of consultants and vendors to Democratic campaigns, and folks of all kinds who are part of the far-flung partisan and ostensibly “non-partisan” machinery that gears up every even numbered year to elect Democrats to local, state and national office. Some of them want to change the Democratic party from within, some of them want to take it as it is, but they're all committed to staying inside the Democratic tent, and to keeping you there as well.
If you're a black Democratic party activist like I was for 25 years, even if like me, you never called yourself that, you go to NetRoots to connect with other Democratic party activists, and hopefully, with the people who will be handing out grassroots money, among other things, to get out the Big Black Vote in November, without which Democrats on every level have no hope of winning.
High ranking Democrats who hand out money, whether through partisan campaigns or to ostensibly nonpartisan and/or nonprofit organizations are always on the lookout for new activist blood with catchy new hooks, for activists who'll say the things they will not say in the effort to turn out the black masses for that Big Black Vote. So if you're a black activist at NetRoots you really NEED to stand out, to get noticed by the people who can give you fellowships, grants, jobs, funding of all kinds, and a career....
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http://www.blackagendareport.com/netroots-nation-confrontation
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The Black A**ho** Report. 
Get it? Oh, never mind. Enjoy your reading.
Purple. 
Of course this brilliant DU'er 
predicted as much. A week ago, at that!
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1187&pid=18529
You can choose any words you prefer, though. Up to you. 
Bernie and Dr. Oz. 
the go-to source when white people want to show what black folk are really thinking.
Sid
Like anyone should discuss race issues with you, after your "race nagging" comment.
Sid
You called the actions of BLM protesters "race nagging".
Given that that's your opinion of BLM protesters, why should any fucking one at DU discuss any issues connected to race with you?
Sid
My comment was directed at an Original Post article.
I later explained how, if a group repeatedly over time insinuates that progressive Democrats are racist, and don't care about race issues, but does not clearly explain why they believe progressive Democrats are racist, and don't care about race issues, then they are not doing anything to help their cause, are helping to fragment the Democratic party.
I can't help it if people misunderstand and misconstrue what I say, deliberately or not deliberately. Below is exactly what I explained about the term I used. I did not receive any constructive input in response to my request for a clear explanation of what progressives need to do to help the AA community.
In this case, it is yelling at people who are not black, but who sincerely want to do everything
they can to help, but don't know what to do. Calling these people racists because you feel they are not helping you, but when they ask "What do you want me to do", they get no answer.
Getting threatened by "we're not going to vote for your candidate if you don't listen to me", and then listening, and listening, and listening, but not hearing anything specific about what how we can help.
Tell us to wrap ourselves in a flag on the courthouse steps and burn ourselves. Go out in the street and protest ask us to join you. Ask us to donate to the charity of your choice, just clearly let us know what you want us to do.
We're not elected officials. we don't have their power to elicit change. We try to nominate the candidates we feel will do the most to help, but they almost never get nominated. Instead vanilla corporate candidates get elected and do nothing to help. This is not the fault of Progressive Democrats, it is the fault of the people who elect the candidates who don't try to fix the problems.
When people say, "hey, what you are doing doesn't seem to be working for you, maybe try something different, try voting for the people who appear to be the ones who are most likely to help you, they get told "don't tell me how to vote".
It's like being a mouse in a maze, a catch 22, an unsolvable puzzle. And it makes me want to give up. I want to help, but obviously don't know how. I ask how can I help, but get no clear answer.
I understand African Americans are angry, You have every fucking reason to be. Non AA progressives are angry too, but people not directly by a problem can only understand and feel it to a fraction of what the oppressed people feel.
But we don't understand why African Americans are blaming us, yelling at us, threatening us, for being responsible for these conditions. Our candidates almost get nominated, so we vote for the same people you do, in the hope that at least some progress will be made.
We don't understand why you are not yelling at the republicans who are killing you and making your lives hard. We don't understand why you are not yelling at the corporatist Democrats who are not helping you. Instead, it seems you are misdirecting your anger at us.
This is causing me to want to just give up, I want to help, and try to help, and get yelled at and threatened for doing so. This makes me resigned to a fractured voting block, and a republican government. Which would be horrible for all of us.
So, please, please, if you wouldn't mind, tell me, right here and now, simply, and clearly, in plain simple language, exactly and specifically what you want non- African Americans to do to help the black community.
I work with people who can't help themselves, and who cannot speak. I do the best I can to to determine from their methods of communication what they need me to to do help them.
So please to tell me. Plain and simple.
I'm listening. But I'm really stupid. So I need you to please make it it clear, simple. and specific.
Thank you.
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Again, I cannot help it if people misconstrue, or misunderstand, deliberately or not deliberately, the meaning of what I say. Third Way type posters deliberately misconstruing facts and posts by progressive DUers is a fact of life on DU, and most everyone here knows it.
Your statement about me calling the actions of BLM protestors that is something I did not say, and this is just another clear example of certain posters deliberately misconstruing what DU progressives post.
Personal attacks, smear jobs, strawmen, never answering questions directly, those are tactics repeatedly employed by Third Way type posters here, who, not coincidentally, are also all Hillary Clinton supporters.
So there you have it, Sid.
Carry on.
Sid
And I'm only halfway through!
The "blackness" of the source didn't give it any additional credibility to me, any more than it would if it had come from Allen West
You are not the one posting, "Charlie Black Guy said/wrote ..." posts.
Response to SidDithers (Reply #46)
sure, sabrina.
Sid
close to what you appear to be TRYING to attribute to me? Thanks in advance!
And no need for the PM. I can figure it out 
Disrupting Sanders on the other hand reaches tens of thousands at a time.
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So when I click "Post my reply!" it DOES post to the board beyond my screen ... I have asked the question several times; but, no one seems to want to answer it. I was beginning to think it only appeared on my screen!
I hope you enjoyed the UFC. Mrs. 1SBM and I took a day for ourselves and went to the local casino ... She played the slots and I played Hold 'Em ... we walked away, up close to $2,000! 
Sid
Sid
that post was certainly on topic...very entertaining 
I've read much of your work here. Don't agree with much of it but let us tarry longer in the future on some issues of importance. Surely we can do better than one-liners for the viewing audience
Sid
