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Celerity

(42,666 posts)
Thu Dec 5, 2019, 09:20 PM Dec 2019

South Bend African American Leaders Praise Buttigieg Amid Protests

https://www.wbaa.org/post/south-bend-african-american-leaders-praise-buttigieg-amid-protests

An event to show support for presidential candidate and South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg Wednesday night verged on chaos at moments as a handful of protesters disrupted speakers. The South Bend event was held for local African-American leaders to talk about their experiences with the candidate.

Local city council members and pastors who support Buttigieg expressed appreciation for his administration’s efforts to improve the city. One of the speakers, Gladys Muhammad, says she wanted to combat national media reports that Buttigieg had no black supporters in South Bend.

“Well there are plenty of people in the community that do support Mayor Pete and we need to change that dialogue,” she says.


But while they spoke, protesters holding signs shouted and interrupted with anti-Buttigieg messages. One protester, Igor Rodriguez, even stopped the event when he grabbed the microphone and began chanting “This is a farce.” “Who chose these people as the black leaders?" he yelled in the microphone. "Who organized this? We have a police [problem] in this town! Why are we talking about Pete Buttigieg?”

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and for all the people getting the vapours over reporters and the Buttigieg campaign saying that some of the protesters were Sanders supporters

well



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BuffaloJackalope

(818 posts)
1. Why are you smearing Bernie supporters?
Thu Dec 5, 2019, 09:24 PM
Dec 2019

It's been established that the protesters were from BLM:

https://upload.democraticunderground.com/1287370436

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Celerity

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2. lol, 'smearing' is a joke coming from you given your history of slurs against Buttigieg
Thu Dec 5, 2019, 09:26 PM
Dec 2019

some were Bernie supporters, as shown, there is no smear

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BuffaloJackalope

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3. You mean, telling the truth about him?
Thu Dec 5, 2019, 09:29 PM
Dec 2019

You just can't help smearing people who don't put him on a pedestal.

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dsc

(52,130 posts)
4. Too bad apparently for that protester women's voices don't matter all that much
Thu Dec 5, 2019, 09:31 PM
Dec 2019

since he is willing to snatch microphones from women seems all too typical male privilege to me.

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BuffaloJackalope

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7. Bad optics - no more so than 4 white men talking about black education
Fri Dec 6, 2019, 07:07 AM
Dec 2019

without speaking to any actual black people - which is part of what BLM was protesting.

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dsc

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8. So muzzling women is OK
Fri Dec 6, 2019, 07:23 AM
Dec 2019

I get it.

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BuffaloJackalope

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9. And not addressing the actual issue is OK.
Fri Dec 6, 2019, 07:32 AM
Dec 2019

I get it.

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dsc

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10. If they can't address the issue and allow women to speak
Fri Dec 6, 2019, 07:35 AM
Dec 2019

they aren't worth listening to. They are all too typical of toxic male culture. She is only a woman so who the fuck cares, that is their ethos writ large. I wonder just what that man does to women when people aren't looking. I bet it isn't pretty. The fact you think it is OK speaks volumes none of it pretty.

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BuffaloJackalope

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11. Still missing the entire point
Fri Dec 6, 2019, 07:39 AM
Dec 2019
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Celerity

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5. you were NOT truth telling you were racially smearing him and also using other problematic
Thu Dec 5, 2019, 09:39 PM
Dec 2019

slurs

I did not smear anyone, I simply posted a photo of one of the Bernie supporters who were at the event and who was one f the protesters.

The truly bad look is that man (BLM, Bernie supporter, whatever he was) grabbing the mic away from an African-American woman, Sharon McBride, who is an elected official.



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mopinko

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6. i will say again- the russians played both blm and the bernie bros.
Thu Dec 5, 2019, 09:44 PM
Dec 2019

if bernie was capable of leading the world, he would grab this shit by the horns.
but no.

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