Op-Ed: How do you protest at a virtual Democratic convention? (via latimesopinion)
this year, the fate of another longstanding political tradition is also in jeopardy.
And that’s a shame, because protests from the left have occasionally pushed the party to take stronger stances than it otherwise might have. And in Los Angeles, on the eve of the convention, 7,500 people, most of them Black, gathered at the Shrine Auditorium to demand change at an event that the California Eagle, a Black weekly newspaper, described as the largest Negro political gathering since the 1940s. When Kennedy arrived at the Shrine that night, the crowd booed him. In contrast, Minnesota Sen. Hubert Humphrey, who had introduced the Democrats’ first civil rights plank at the 1948 convention, got a standing ovation.
SNCC representatives who came to L.A. in 1960 pushed hard for a party platform that faced “up to the reality that racial discrimination is America’s No. 1 social issue.” The group’s leaders insisted that “our national government should guarantee the fundamental rights of all citizens without discrimination,” calling for, among other things, protection for “the unhampered exercise to the franchise for all citizens.
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