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others. Their point is that they need to scream out where they can be heard because the message that there is systematic racism needs to be heard.

It is possible to BOTH respect that BLM has been able to make the issue of systemic racism something spoken outside college courses and to genuinely raise consciousness more than the protests that were not as aggressive AND for to respect the annoyance of the groups whose events were taken over. Your comment that the BLM message was more important and the point of the pride parade to begin with is not an opinion that EVERYONE would agree with.

I think that just as others have to respect what BLM has accomplished even as they used methods that some found uncomfortable, YOU need to realize that the very process of taking over someone else's event - whether the Social Security rally that had invited Bernie or the Pride parade - is that many drawn there for THAT event will respond with annoyance, or even anger, at the interruption. It is a natural consequence of how they operate.