A long-time friend of this blog writes:<\/p>\n
I do have sympathy for the BLM grievances, truly.\u00a0 But their goals are very undefined, nebulous, etc.\u00a0 It’s sad.\u00a0\u00a0It is a tragedy about\u00a0the young man killed by the police.\u00a0 I don’t know the facts but it is still a tragedy for all\u00a0who are involved.
\nI purposefully walked through the tunnel from the HennCo Govt Center to Mpls City Hall this morning.\u00a0 There is no evidence of the large protest there yesterday.\u00a0 The graffiti on Wings Financial was not in evidence.\u00a0 The main lobby of City Hall did not look worse for wear.\u00a0 I am pleased for the protesters not doing permanent damage to get their point across, that was very good of them.\u00a0 The\u00a0clean up crews also did a good job.<\/p>\nThat same night [an acquaintance],\u00a0a white, middle-aged woman left our building unaccompanied as usual. \u00a0The bulding is very near City Hall. \u00a0Some man leaving the protest walked up to her and started screaming “BLACK LIVES MATTER, BLACK LIVES MATTER!” \u00a0She is a very experienced urbanite and just ignored him but he followed her screaming some more. \u00a0She was not particularly frightened by the whole incident, felt a bit threatened and will be sure to pay attention to more \u00a0“protests” in order to plan her route to evade them. \u00a0The moral of this story is that all the BLM energy simply made a person who might be sympathetic to their cause into a person who sees them as complete idiots to be avoided.
\nThe BLM group though reminds\u00a0me of the\u00a0“gang that couldn’t shoot straight.”\u00a0 I mean they go to protest\u00a0at Elsie’s in NE Mpls (a fine place) because they heard a “police” function was happening there.\u00a0 But lo and behold it was a holiday fundraiser for HennCo Sheriff Stanek\u00a0(I had an invite but was unable to attend).\u00a0 Dumb, dumb, dumb.\u00a0 Plus the even was over by the time they got there.\u00a0 Wrong event, wrong time.\u00a0 This is BLM’s problem.\u00a0 They have some legitimate gripes.\u00a0 They have a totally ineffective response.<\/p><\/blockquote>\nAnd here’s the\u00a0real\u00a0<\/em>radical idea (emphasis added):<\/p>\n
Maybe they should do something REALLY radical and start showing up, putting forth candidates, and finding support at the REPUBLICAN caucuses<\/strong>!\u00a0 Guaranteed, they will very quickly find real meaningful results coming their way.\u00a0 Either the Dems will get so scared, they will actually start doing something or they will find a very welcoming group at the GOP who will also be falling over backwards to assist.
\nJust a thought.<\/p><\/blockquote>\nThat would, of course, shake things up. \u00a0A lot.<\/p>\n
Of course, it won’t be BLM pushing that. \u00a0Black Lives matter is funded by liberals with deep pockets<\/a>, almost entirely with a goal of trying to keep the African American vote jazzed up during a Democrat campaign season where the black voter will be asked to choose among a bunch of geriatric white people.<\/p>\n