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Idaho Dems Exec Director: DNC Should Train People In ‘How to Shut Their
Mouths If They’re White’
by Ian Hanchett Jan 20170

During Monday’s Democracy in Color DNC debate, Idaho Democratic Party
Executive Director and DNC Chair candidate Sally Boynton Brown stated
that “my job is to shut other white people down when they want to
interrupt. My job is to shut other white people down when they want to
say, oh, no, I’m not prejudiced. I’m a Democrat. I’m accepting.’ My job
is to make sure that they get that they have privilege.” And argued the
DNC should have training for people in “how to shut their mouths if
they’re white.”

Brown said, “Black lives matter, and it makes me sad that we’re even
having that conversation, and that tells me that white leaders in our
party have failed. we have to accept that there is prejudice that exists
within our own party, and we have to able to have that conversation. We
cannot sweep that under the rug. We cannot continue to hide it. We
cannot smash voices down when they are trying to scream, ‘Listen to me,
you don’t get it.’ I’m a white woman. I don’t get it. I am pleased and
honored to be here today to have the conversation. I am so excited that
we’re here, and I’m listening, because that’s my job. My job is to
listen to the issues.”

She added, “My job is to listen and be a voice, and my job is to shut
other white people down when they want to interrupt. My job is to shut
other white people down when they want to say, oh, no, I’m not
prejudiced. I’m a Democrat. I’m accepting.’ My job is to make sure that
they get that they have privilege. And until we shut our mouths, and we
listen to those people who don’t, and we lift our people up, so that we
all have equity in this country, so that we’re all fighting alongside
each other, so that we are all on the same page, and we clearly get
where we’re going, we’re not going to break through this. This is not
just rhetoric. This is life or death. This moment in our country, the
Democratic Party has the opportunity to do something different. We have
the opportunity to really confront the fact that we have not been in
alignment with our values. We’ve been talking a lot of smack. We need to
make sure that our actions and our words and our values all match, and
around the issue of race, we are so far out of alignment, I don’t even
know the way back.”

Brown further stated that Idaho is “so white.” And she’s been trying to
reach out to anyone of color “to be honest with me.” She added, “I need
schooling…so that I can go school the other white people. We need it.”

She concluded that the DNC needed to train people in how to communicate,
be sensitive, “and how to shut their mouths if they’re white.”

http://www.breitbart.com/video/2017/01/23/idaho-dems-exec-director-dnc-should-train-people-in-how-to-shut-their-mouths-if-theyre-white/