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The CHAZ and the CHOPping Block
Is performance art hijacking the BLM revolution?
The revolution will not be televised.
It will however, be live-streamed, Insta’ed, You-tubed, uploaded, tweeted and memed onto every device and into every living room in America.
Black Lives Matter, a young movement previously on the fringe, has mainstreamed, gone viral, become a household name, gained major political power. All the Kardashians and Kayne West put together couldn’t dream of this level of publicity.
There is an old adage that all publicity is good publicity. Is that still true? It may have been true at a time when publicity was at a premium, and having a famous name was worth the price of infamy.
Today, however, a promising presidential campaign can be destroyed in an instant by a bit of bad publicity, an embarrassing unguarded moment caught on camera. A prosperous company can be sandbagged by a frivolous or insensitive comment made on social media by a low-level executive.
Reputations. They take forever to build and a moment to tear down.
Which is why BLM activists should be deeply concerned about some of the reports coming out of Seattle about the six-block area protestors have cordoned off and initially declared the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone…