| Submit your comments on this article |
| Home Front: Politix |
| Idaho Democratic leader takes heat for Black Lives Matter comments |
| 2017-01-26 |
| [Idaho Statesman] Sally Boynton Brown, the Idaho’s Democratic Party’s executive director and one of seven candidates to chair the Democratic National Committee, is taking heat for comments she made at a candidates’ forum last week on how the party should talk about the Black Lives Matter movement. Brown, responding to a question from moderator Joy-Ann Reid of MSNBC, said Democrats have failed minorities and people of color and need to “accept there is prejudice” within the party. Speaking as a “white woman” who doesn’t “get it,” she said her job was to was to “shut other white people down when they want to say, oh, no, I’m not prejudiced; I’m a Democrat.” Right-leaning media outlets seized on the “shut other white people down” part of her comment to attack her and the party. “Obviously they’re being taken out of context,” Boynton Brown said of the reporting on her comments Tuesday. “What I was answering to was an internal party conversation around being in alignment with our values and words.” She added: “I think that this is the issue we see with fake news. These media outlets take something completely out of context and sensationalize it, and now people across the country are sending me hate mail and thinking I’m saying something that’s not true.” Boynton Brown, traveling in New York on Tuesday, said that her comments were aimed at racism as “the oldest power structure that we have in this country.” “We absolutely need to check our own filter,” she said. “And the DNC needs to be making sure that we’re training people on how to listen to our brothers and sisters of color who are sharing their life experience with us.” C-SPAN's transcription of what Boynton Brown said at the forum. |
| Posted by:Pappy |
| #8 “We’ll See” Once upon a time, there was an old farmer who had worked his crops for many years. One day his horse ran away. Upon hearing the news, his neighbors came to visit. “Such bad luck,” they said sympathetically, “you must be so sad.” “We’ll see,” the farmer replied. The next morning the horse returned, bringing with it two other wild horses. “How wonderful,” the neighbors exclaimed! “Not only did your horse return, but you received two more. What great fortune you have!” “We’ll see,” answered the farmer. The following day, his son tried to ride one of the untamed horses, was thrown, and broke his leg. The neighbors again came to offer their sympathy on his misfortune. “Now your son cannot help you with your farming,” they said. “What terrible luck you have!” “We’ll see,” replied the old farmer. The following week, military officials came to the village to conscript young men into the army. Seeing that the son’s leg was broken, they passed him by. The neighbors congratulated the farmer on how well things had turned out. “Such great news. You must be so happy!” The man smiled to himself and said once again. “We’ll see,” |
| Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy 2017-01-26 13:30 |
| #7 Sally Boynton Brown's egregious rant was 4 min. long. The video and the "quote" cited in the article cut off and omitted the last minute of the rant. Her dramatic and radically racist spiel concluded with: We pull people in and they are volunteers. They don’t know anything and then we send them out to have conversations with people, hard conversations. We promote them to chair of a party where they have power and they have no clue what they are doing. We have to, at the DNC, provide training. We have to teach them how to communicate, how to be sensitive and how to shut their mouths if they are white. So I think I made my point. I think the only point you made Sally, is that any future political aspirations you may have envisioned for yourself, are now laughably nonexistent. The 4 min. version can be viewed here |
| Posted by: junkiron 2017-01-26 10:02 |
| #6 How long before phones and other recording devices are banned at any sort of lefty speech/discussion/meeting. That's gotta be easier than trying to curtail their insane thoughts. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2017-01-26 09:48 |
| #5 “Obviously they’re being taken out of context,” Well, Donks been doing to Trunks all my life. Never stopped your party. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2017-01-26 08:11 |
| #4 Maybe Rachel Dolezal can help Sal figure out how to be "more authentic..." |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2017-01-26 07:12 |
| #3 “And the DNC needs to be making sure that we’re training people on how to listen to our brothers and sisters of color who are sharing their life experience with us.” Please keep doing that. Meanwhile, President Trump will continue to listen to our brothers and sisters of ALL colors who are sharing their life experiences with him. |
| Posted by: Crusader 2017-01-26 01:08 |
| #2 Alternative facts. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2017-01-26 00:52 |
| #1 “Obviously they’re being taken out of context,” Boynton Brown said of the reporting on her comments Tuesday. “What I was answering to was an internal party conversation around being in alignment with our values and words.” Obviously the folks standing right behind you when you said it took you out of context, too. She added: “I think that this is the issue we see with fake news. These media outlets take something completely out of context and sensationalize it, and now people across the country are sending me hate mail and thinking I’m saying something that’s not true.” Right or wrong, it's irritating, isn't it? |
| Posted by: gorb 2017-01-26 00:31 |