As anti-police protests peter out across the country, progressive activists are becoming increasingly desperate to maintain what they saw as momentum for their cause. But, as is the case with any dying movement, when the larger crowds dwindle, the only people left are the extremists and radicals who have no appeal to anyone outside of their fellow radicals.
A handful of these radicals took to the restaurants of New York City Sunday morning to demand…attention. The attention they got they didn’t much care for.
On Twitter under the hashtag “#BlackBrunchNYC,” they “stormed” eateries offering brunch and draw attention to themselves. Rather than inspire a nationwide movement, they inspired ridicule.
First came the “activism.”
HAPPENING NOW #BlackBrunchNYC disrupting bourgeois brunch & white peoples complacency to black genocide. Follow @QuePasaApaza 4 livetweets!
— kat yang-stevens (@greencircleas) January 4, 2015
Disturbing the peace wit the baes #BlackLivesMatter #BlackBrunchNYC pic.twitter.com/Xerxzrom09
— Camila ibanez (@QuePasaApaza) January 4, 2015
Manager tried to lock us in the restaurant to have us all arrested. Literally raced him to the door. #whichSideAreUon #blackbrunchnyc
— Camila ibanez (@QuePasaApaza) January 4, 2015
Black people are dying *white dude sips coffee* #blackbrunchnyc #BlackLivesMatter pic.twitter.com/4rt8Mb3DAJ
— DAS RACIST (@dasracist) January 4, 2015
Reading the names of New Yorkers killed by police @ the barking dog on 33rd n lex. #BlackLivesMatter #BlackBrunchNYC pic.twitter.com/Pz3WVDs6uF
— DAS RACIST (@dasracist) January 4, 2015
#blackbrunchnyc at Penelope. Some stood, some grabbed arms and screamed in our faces. We know which side you're on. pic.twitter.com/tA9BTRJCqi
— Reuben Telushkin (@telushk) January 4, 2015
Second stop met with opposition. Manager (WM) at Cannibal turned on music to drown out names of black lives lost to police #BlackBrunchNYC
— Sabaah (@CaliLov3_) January 4, 2015
Then came the ridicule.
How far has black power fallen? They've gone from powerful statements.. to interrupting brunch. #blackbrunchnyc pic.twitter.com/MPQm24GBO3
— danger (@coolhandschlute) January 4, 2015
#BlackBrunchNYC is supposed to enlighten people about "the war on black lives" but strangely, it doesn't seem to be about abortion.
— Rachel (@esqcapades) January 4, 2015
#blackbrunchnyc By Any McMuffin Necessary!
— Dodd (@Amuk3) January 4, 2015
Biggest losers yet MT @sharminultraa: #blackbrunchnyc interrupting white supremacy one brunch at a time. pic.twitter.com/0PU1NkJ3MZ
— Cameron Gray (@Cameron_Gray) January 4, 2015
Solidarity with the cantaloupe on the side. #blackbrunchnyc
— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) January 4, 2015
End the white male patriarchy of brunch and breakfast. #BlackBrunchNYC pic.twitter.com/4pc94kerkP
— Bill (@DefendWallSt) January 4, 2015
So 16 have been shot, killed in Chicago in 2015 but God forbid New Yorkers eat brunch because #WhiteSupremacy! #blackbrunchnyc you're fired.
— Jenn Jacques (@JennJacques) January 4, 2015
Eggs Benedict? More like eggs Benedict Arnold, amirite #blackbrunchnyc?
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) January 4, 2015
Who told this group that making yourself look like dumbasses at random Diners was the best way to get your message heard? #blackbrunchnyc
— Markeece Young (@YoungBLKRepub) January 4, 2015
The protesters didn’t seem to care for the comedy they inspired.
OMG. ALL THESE WHITE PEEPO COMING OUTTA THE FORREST TO TELL ME. IM RACIST?? your people literally Killed and raped my ancestors…
— Camila ibanez (@QuePasaApaza) January 4, 2015
…your people literally stole my peoples land. YOU ARE ACTIVELY SUPPORTING THE KILLING OF BROWN AND BLACK BODIES IN EVERY COUNTRY
— Camila ibanez (@QuePasaApaza) January 4, 2015