# Why are Black Lives Matter activists disrupting Bernie Sanders' appearances and what effects? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [August 9, 2015, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-black-lives-matter-activists-disrupting-bernie-sanders-appearances-and-what-effects/727345 "2015-08-09T00:04:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 106
**Author:** ![camille](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/22d042/32.png) [@camille](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/camille)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2015, 11:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-black-lives-matter-activists-disrupting-bernie-sanders-appearances-and-what-effects/727345/106 "2015-08-11T11:05:42Z")
I mistakenly posted this in the GD thread about “All Lives Matter”, but it probably belongs here: > [@What's wrong with saying "All lives matter"?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-saying-all-lives-matter/727366/209): > > At least one of these particular fruitcakes (Marissa Janae Johnson) is a member of a splinter group of BLM, whose goal is to bring down the Democratic Party. She is an Evangelical Christian, and a (former?) Palin supporter. > > It’s on her Facebook page, and she admitted it in a [radio interview](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQqdNF-BHTw) on TWIBnation media, where she says her religious convictions “compel” her to do this, and “it doesn’t matter if I was a Palin supporter just before I got up on that stage”. > > Food for thought. Update: The splinter group is called [Outside Agitators 206](https://outsideagitators206.org/). This was posted on Johnson’s Facebook [page](https://www.facebook.com/bricarter/posts/10153513899087463): “The white liberal differs from the white conservative only in one way. The liberal is more deceitful than the conservative. The liberal is more hypocritical than the conservative. Both want power, but the white liberal is the one who has perfected the art of posing as the Negro’s friend and benefactor, and by winning the friendship and support of the Negro, the white liberal is able to use the Negro as a pawn or tool in this political football game. Politically the American Negro is nothing but a football, and the white liberals control this mentally dead ball. Through tricks of tokenism and false promises, and they have the willing cooperation of Negro leaders. These leaders sell out our people for just a few crumbs of token recognition and token gains” -MALCOLM X If you are stanning for Bernie Sanders and are upset that he got shut down but you haven’t been putting the same passion behind Black Lives you really need to reevaluate more than your political party. There have also been tweets against Sanders with the hashtags: #BowDownBernie and #FreePalestine. I’m not sure what to make of it, but there are plenty of CTs going around. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-black-lives-matter-activists-disrupting-bernie-sanders-appearances-and-what-effects/727345)._