BLACK LIVES MATTER GETS ON STAGE AND BERNIE SANDERS RUNS AWAY

"Event organizers allowed the period of silence [for Mike Brown], as some in the large crowd booed and shouted for the protesters to leave the stage.

Afterward, Marissa Janae Johnson, who identified herself as a leader of the Black Lives Matter chapter in Seattle, asked the crowd to “join us now in holding Bernie Sanders accountable for his actions.” She motioned for Sanders to join her at the microphone.
After several minutes of frantic conversations, Sanders left the stage and greeted people in the large crowd who had turned out to see him. Many chanted his name."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/08/08/bernie-sanders-leaves-seattle-stage-after-event-disrupted-by-black-lives-matter-protesters

 MY TITLE FOR THIS ARTICLE:  

BLACK LIVES MATTERS GETS ON STAGE AND BERNIE SANDERS RUNS AWAY

WASHINGTON POST's TITLE FOR THIS ARTICLE:

Protesters drove Bernie Sanders from one Seattle stage. At his next stop, 15,000 people showed.

MY INTERPRETATION OF WASHINGTON POST TITLE FOR THIS ARTICLE: 

Black Whiners had the audacity to interrupt white male, Bernie Sanders who graciously bowed out and left one Seattle stage. At his next stop, 15,000 white people* that mattered showed.  (* = 98%)

OTHER TITLES OF ARTICLES ON THIS EVENT

GOOGLE NEWS ANSWER to a
"BERNIE SANDERS" query on 8 9 2015

A SHORTER INTERPRETATION
OF MOST ARTICLE TITLES

BLACK LIVES DON'T MATTER
AS MUCH AS WHITE FEELINGS

By the way, this negatively portrayed news event was started by two whole women from Black Lives Matter in Seattle. A man who wants to be president ran away from two rather small, shouting black women. 

The initial approach wasn't great. But the most important thing about this is that Sanders couldn't handle it.    

One of the first things Marissa Janae Johnson demanded was a 4.5 minute of silence to represent the 4.5 hours Mike Brown's body lay in the street on the one year anniversary of his death.  Listen to the "most liberal city in America" give their fragile white supremacy based responses in the background.





The initial "disruption" by these two Black Lives Matter representatives in the video below truly was not great. The disruption itself? Yes, that's a good thing. But the squeaky screams in defense of attitude were not great. They're young. And they came off as "too young."  But they're OUT THERE and they are learning. It'll be better next time.

But if Bernie Sanders cannot overcome a rough start
by two whole Black Lives Matter demonstrators
combined with dumb non-responsiveness
from an inept event organizer,
then follow up
by RESPONDING on Black Lives Matter issues NOW
as people are DYING at hands of police NOW,
then Sanders doesn't have what it takes to be president.

You have to have good ideas and leadership skills if you want to be president. I can't imagine Barack Obama in parallel, non-racial situation letting two whole demonstrators be handled so clumsily right in front of him, then run. I cannot picture it at all.  










The traditional republican party hasn't been this weak in a long, long time. They've got numbers but they aren't pulling in one direction like they used to. The Tea Party is pulling one way. Donald Trump is pulling at all the seams he can every time he opens his mouth. The republicans are falling to pieces. This is the time for #BlackLivesMatter and black political interest groups to see if they can make or break a democratic candidate.

White Racial Apology #100,816,024 Deadline's "Unfortunate" Headline -

"Pilots 2015:The Year of  Ethnic Castings -
   About Time or Too Much of Good Thing?"

Cutesy but Serious Format - Bart & Fleming, the apologizers,  must have these little discussions online much like Siskel and Ebert used to quasi-competitively review movies on television.

This would be Mistake Number 1
Two thumbs down

The Apology is just one thing in a list of things to discuss

Here we have Mistake Number 2
"nothing special happening here" conveyed instantly

The apology consisted of apologizing for specific word  choices and word arrangement while never, Ever, EVER EVAH discussing what those words ("Pilots 2015: The Year of Ethnic Castings About Time or Too Much of Good Thing?") meant collectively... ala the Levi Petty Pettit apology (#100,816,019). As long as they cyber-droned on, they only discussed how things sounded
 

This isn't just mistake number 3, 
this is mistakes numbers 1 through 100,816,021

How is it everybody above the age of 12 understands that beliefs are connected to thoughts are connected to the words that come out of your mouth...until race is the subject.   When race enters the picture, white fragility, being what it is, white folk and Bobby Jindal seem to suffer this pinpoint amnesia and forget there is a link between belief, thought, and words (and sometimes actions too). Yes, sometimes you say "math" when you meant to say "bath."  But really cannot explain away an entire sentence or paragraph this way.

But this isn't about that. 

This is about how most of us understand that putting individual words together give them a separate meaning that's more than the sum of their...parts(?)  And a lot of the time we mean those meanings, regardless of what we want to believe about the purity of our own motivations.

The words that form the question, "Pilots 2015: The Year of Ethnic Castings About Time or Too Much of Good Thing?" have a meaning collectively.

And most people of color who heard these words, understood their meaning, collectively. That's why, "HELL NO" was the answer cyber-shouted by Shonda Rhimes and a host of entertainment news reading others.  
 
We, the "ethnic," were not confused. We were especially not-confused about the "too much of a good thing" part

And it's very rare we all get confused and lean in the same direction, all at the same time, for the record. I'm not even sure this kind of unified confusion is possible when a thing as complicated as the social construction of race is at the center. 

  But the thing that really killed me about the 100,816,024th white racial "apology"was this:   Bart and Fleming? These two chuckle-heads discussed the true and offensive meaning of the headline without even noticing that they had done so.

Before they started riffing on forever about the offensive uses of the word "ethnic"(???) which led to a discussion of the how boring the word "diversity"(???) is, they actually give us an interpretation of   "Pilots 2015: The Year of Ethnic Castings About Time or Too Much of Good Thing?" 

FLEMING:

....My co-editor-in-chief Nellie Andreeva’s goal was to convey that there was such an uptick of TV pilot casting of people of color
that it pinched white actors who’ve historically gotten most of the jobs,

Yeah, we know that's what you meant. We KNOOOW.  And we knew when we first read that "unfortunate headline" that "too much of a good thing" was expressing worry over "it pinched white actors"

THE HEART OF THE APOLOGY

FLEMING: I agree with all this, but after our turn in the barrel, I wanted to say a few things to our core readers who felt betrayed.  That original headline does not reflect the collective sensibility here at Deadline. The only appropriate way to view racial diversity in casting is to see it as a wonderful thing, and to hope that Hollywood continues to make room for people of color."


But problem is that  THIS

"Pilots 2015: The Year of Ethnic Castings About Time or Too Much of Good Thing?"
DOESN'T GET CLOSE TO MEANING

"The only appropriate way to view racial diversity in casting is to see it as a wonderful thing, and to hope that Hollywood continues to make room for people of color."   BUT IT DOES MEAN
  ...My co-editor-in-chief Nellie Andreeva’s goal was to convey that there was such an uptick
of TV pilot casting of people of color
that it pinched white actors
who’ve historically gotten most of the jobs,   ESPECIALLY WHEN FOLLOWED BY     and to question if this could last  if it was being treated as a fad.     which could mean in this particular collection of words
that this is uptick for "ethnics"
is temporary anyway
so why worry about it?    


Nellie may not have intended to convey the same ole, same ole  'What about US? Why isn't there a WHITE HISTORY MONTH!  I'm complaining because 95% of grade school, junior high school, and high school history class being about white wasn't enough.' 

Honestly, she may not have meant to express "What about us?" Again. But the headline, the explanation, and the apology  aren't slips of the tongue. This isn't like saying "math" for "bath." Hard core, card-carrying, overt racists express the very same things in harsher language. How many "bad word choice"  coincidences in a row are we "ethnics" supposed to swallow?