Moni is King!

http://thinkprogress.org/election/2015/08/10/3689728/after-repeated-protests-bernie-sanders-releases-racial-justice-platform/

So the guy listens if you get his attention, so even though the protestors weren’t a part of black lives matter they got his attention, got him to release an actual plan for what they were protesting for, and that plan is getting approval from BlackLivesMatter.

The women are actually from Outside Agitators 206, a local activist group aligned with/inside of BLM that includes “youth, students, workers, parents, teachers, artists, street philosophers, survivalists, revolutionaries, solutionaries, Queer,  Black, Brown, Indigenous, and White Allies.“ They released a statement on their blog. 

From a commenter (biased, admittedly, and I found no evidence that they actually fight all democratic politicians) on this article:

People have looked into the two women’s background and discovered that:   1) they are working on behalf of outsideagitators206.org, whose stated objective is oppose the democratic party in any way and discourage blacks from voting for it. They are not actually part of BLM, they just put tht BLM facebook page up only hours before challenging Bernie, in fact. Note they do not make an exception for candidates that are good on black issues, they will oppose ANY democratic candidate, no matter what, and ONLY democratic candidates. So it literally did not matter what Bernie said or did, they still would have attacked him.   2) One of the women is a Sarah Palin supporter and a christian fundamentalist. She posted to her facebook account last month that she wishes the GOP would have offered to “groom her,” if they had she would be with them now.   You can google to find evidence of all this. So no, it’s not Hillary or Soros.

The outsideagitators website:

We center Black voices to celebrate and affirm Blackness. We believe that any movement to end anti-Black racism must be led by Black people. We believe that everyone has a right to resist their oppressors and what resistance looks like varies for different individuals and different circumstances. We don’t directly speak to corporate media, nor do we need them. We are our own voice. Fuck the police: As an institution fundamentally rooted in white supremacy and anti-Blackness we reject the police presence in our communities, absolutely. It is our responsibility to hold each other accountable and keep each other safe.

So, no, not actually BLM. CONNECTED to BLM. Not actually them.

VOX Sources say a cofounder of BLM WAS on stage. I’m trying REALLY hard to find where BLM apologized, however, their most recent blog post on the site says nothing about the rally.

It’s something feminists have been talking about for years it’s called toxic masculinity and it’s one of the common threads among the topic of ‘Patriarchy hurts men too’. If fact the first time I read about toxic masculinity was on a feminist blog.