Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton met privately with members of the Black Lives Matter movement Tuesday after the activists were turned away from one of her campaign events in New Hampshire.
Black Lives Matter representatives told the New Republic on Tuesday that they intended to interrupt the campaign event in Keene similarly to the movement’s actions at a campaign rally for Democratic candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) in Seattle. Sanders gave the protestors the microphone before ultimately leaving the stage.
The activists and others were offered a place in an overflow room, which Clinton later visited, according to the Guardian US.
Huge thanks to everyone tweeting about #HollupHillary action. We’ve gotten the attention of @HillaryClinton‘s staff & they are working w us.
— BlackLivesMatterBOS (@BLM_Boston) August 11, 2015
“The place we ended up arriving with her, in part, was a personal discussion about what we think would work,” founder of the Black Lives Matter chapter in Worcester, Mass., Julius Jones told the New Republic.
“She was not willing to concede that the inherent anti-blackness in the policies that were enacted to address problems is the cause of the problems we have today,” Jones told the magazine.
The question remains, will Folks try to use this to say Clinton handles BLM better?
Or will the role of the secret service be acknowledged? How about the less public aspect of the interaction? The clear lessons from negative reaction to the Seattle (supposed) BLM learned by Boston BLM?
I doubt it will.
(about as much attention as will be given here about the poll showing Bernie ahead in NH, yes I know, 1 poll, but still worthy of note)
Well, good for her and Bernie too. I know the media wants this to be about how this is dividing the Democratic party somehow, but I don’t see it that way. I see it as a net benefit in that Dems are the only ones looking to open themselves up to the ideas of #BLM and the concerns they have. It may come off as awkward now, but it will strengthen the party overall. And Bernie did come up with a way to address #BLM after the initial confrontation on stage in Seattle…which is all to the good.
There’s a long way to go but we have to keep in mind, there are many constituencies that want their issues addressed by the big tent Democratic Party I believe. Its natural for there to be a lot of jockeying for attention to that power structure, until each group feels they are being heard and taken seriously.
Every politician knows to kiss the crying baby.
[edit: On re-reading, this may sound dismissive, or even racist. Sorry. What I meant was that every politician knows how to please the big crowd by giving a little attention to any little crowd distraction, even if no long-term solution for that distraction is intended.
“She was not willing to concede that the inherent anti-blackness in the policies that were enacted to address problems is the cause of the problems we have today,” Jones told the magazine.
Well…they might have contributed, but if there were not problems in the first place, we wouldn’t have needed to address the problems. Maybe the problems are the cause of the problems.
““She was not willing to concede that the inherent anti-blackness in the policies that were enacted to address problems is the cause of the problems we have today,” Jones told the magazine.”
WTF? Is that just a veiled way of regurgitating the GOP/Teatroll brain-damage about social assistance programs being "welfare slavery?