3 thoughts on “BLACK CHRISTIAN FASCISTS: “Protesters Silence Bernie Sanders in Seattle” / Mike Malloy ☮”

1. Malloy’s bombast produces lots of noise but little light. At the same time, my first reaction to the interruption of Sanders’ rally was that it was rude, crude, and self-defeating. Upon reflection, I still see it as rude and crude but not necessarily self-defeating. Black Americans have never advanced racial justice through the good intentions of white liberals and moderates; advancement has come through civil disobedience, actions that often angered white liberals. Slavery was ended with the bloodbath of the Civil War. Jim Crow was ended after many deaths and broken bodies on the streets and highways of both the South and the North. And, indeed, days after the Seatlle kerfluffle, the Sanders campaign began formulating policies that more directly engaged racial injustice. So, not so self-defeating.

   I would urge anyone to consider Charles Blow’s column on this incident in the August 17 edition of the NYT: “Activists Feel the ‘Bern'” I agree with the sense expressed in that column which also repeats the frustration that black Americans have long felt about white liberals and moderates and expressed by Martin Luther King, Jr. in his Letter From Birmingham Jail:

   ““I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to ‘order’ than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: ‘I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action’; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man’s freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a ‘more convenient season.’ Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.”

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   • Not unlike the “moderate” Christian. It is both political and religious moderates that allow–through uncritical tribalism–order to trump justice.

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     • Indeed.

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