Caught that interview by Marrissa Jenae. No tact whatsoever.

[Blue State Bandit]

Then maybe she can get some of that Hillary money.

She must have learned these tactics from her Tea Party mom.

Interview:

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[arcane1]

1. I'm not interested in going after these people. This controversy is over n/t

[BainsBane]

3. How is Bernie not part of the establishment?

He's a US Senator.

[daredtowork]

4. I thought it was a fantastic interview

Tact does not seem to be at the top of her concerns - at one point she even talks about trying to defy Black Respectability Politics, which I suppose she sees as something like the white political establishment taming black people to do their bidding.

Many people have had a knee-jerk reaction to the "white supremacist liberals" remark. I've been convinced that this remark wasn't just a random insult, and that it's important for people on DU to study its sources. A simple Google search will show you that this remark didn't come out of thin air. I thought it might be a response to "All Lives Matter", but Jenae's posting about Farrakhan makes me wonder if it could have anti-Semitic roots that even the African American community doesn't think about anymore since they've come to use it as a more generalized response to oppression.

Anyway, if people on DU want to make a coherent response to the "white supremacist liberals" accusation instead of just show their "white fragility" with emotional reactions, they should do some research.

This interview is a great place to start!

Some highlights:

Bernie as as a stand-in for Seattle white liberal culture. (Yes, "White Supremacist Liberals" does seem to be the standard way of looking at living in a really progressive city that still doesn't do right by black people. IMHO, that point of view needs to be listened to more: I live in a similar super-progressive white-washed city).

"I don't give a F about your white gaze."

Claim that the Sarah Palin thing was a result of having Tea Party parents, but now her politics are more radical leftist.

Not a Hillary plant: just can't get past Hillary's security. The call of #BLM is to challenge any candidate anywhere.

Doesn't hate white people: her mom is white.

"Most people say they don't hate black people. The question is, do you *love* black people."

Thinks the whole Democratic party is the same, so getting to Bernie will ultimately shift Hillary.

Is not apologetic. Proud she has people thinking/talking about race.

Is not about supporting political candidates, though she will use them to forward her agenda. She wants to break the systems that "never did anything for black people."

[Vinca]

6. I hate the tactics this young woman is using.

If you're rude and nasty - as these demonstrations have been - you do not bring people to your cause, you repel them. She claims not to hate white people, but she sure acts like she does. I'll cut her some slack since her parents were teabaggers. She was probably raised on ignorance and hate.

[djean111]

5. "Thinks the whole Democratic party is the same, so getting to Bernie will ultimately shift Hillary."

Getting to Bernie merely shifts Hillary's campaign rhetoric. That is ALL it does. That is all it will do.

Some of those fabulous sounding, detailed "positions" on campaign websites have as much chance of being enacted as, well, the Democratic Party platform.