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Showing Original Post only (View all)‘None of this looks good': Cenk Uygur rips #BlackLivesMatter protest against Sanders and O’Malley [View all]
Young Turks host Cenk Uygur chided the #BlackLivesMatter protest during Saturdays Netroots Nation progressive conference, saying that the disruption had gained more attention than the message the movement wanted to deliver.
None of this looks good, Uygur said on Monday. If you care about this movement, I dont think todays the day you celebrate and go, Got em. I wish this helped, but I really dont think it did.
Uygur showed footage of the demonstration during town hall appearances by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and former Maryland Governor Martin OMalley, including the crowd jeering OMalley by using the phrase white lives matter, all lives matter during one response. Critics have argued that adding those descriptors minimizes the issue of police violence in black communities.
Im not sure the answers were so great in that context, Uygur conceded. But if we shut down the conversation after that, youre gonna alienate people. You dont want to alienate people, you want to bring them into the conversation, because thats the only way were gonna get change.
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/07/none-of-this-looks-good-cenk-uygur-rips-blacklivesmatter-protest-against-sanders-and-omalley/
