re: #289 Decatur Deb

You’re not really giving BLM much shrift in that statement. If they’re doing counterproductive things, loudly, in an election year, that definitely trips a flare. So I’m standing with my suspicion—one chance in four they were sourced or quickly co-opted by the party that wanted Sanders and HRC gone.

Assuming they are an honest spontaneous outburst of rage at outrageous injustice, then they have demonstrated the vulnerability of poorly-led, unaccountable action. To reach any kind of goal in any timeframe we have to think this stuff through and avoid re-learning things we knew in the 60s.

Deb, part of the problem may be some in the BLM movement may not want to understand the 60s because for a lot of them the 60s changed nothing as far as they can tell.

For those of us that lived in the 60s we saw what was been labeled as major changes. And I use the word label for a reason. It is stuck over an object to say there is something in the package. Often the label is very misleading.

For those living today, when you see your people getting treated the way they are being treated it may be seen as no real change was made…just movement of game pieces on a board that you still do not get to play. And then the people in charge of the game put a label on it saying “Everyone Can Play.”

Meanwhile, years later a new game has been developed and they do not get to play in that one, and if they try they run into a new set of rules violations that kicks them out of the ‘real’ game.

And as I 60+ year old white guy that saw the changes in the 60s I can sure understand the frustrations because they almost all still exist…now with different labels.

I hope you get my drift.