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San Luis Obispo’s Tianna Arata again on national TV

March 11, 2021

Tianna Arata

By JOSH FRIEDMAN

San Luis Obispo activist Tianna Arata made her second national television appearance since her arrest following a protest last July, this time stating she has to fight hard as a black woman just to be free. Even though Arata was never held in jail, for months following her arrest for detaining others against their will, her supporters chanted to set her free.

On Tuesday night, ABC aired a segment of its “Soul of a Nation” show that included Arata; Patrisse Cullors, co-founder of the Black Lives Matter movement, and Chi Osse, a New York City Council candidate. Sunny Hostin, who co-hosts the ABC talk show “The View,” moderated a discussion with the three activists.

The discussion touched upon “black Twitter,” meaning the community of black Twitter users, and Generation Z, to which Arata belongs.

At one point during the segment Arata said, “I have to fight so hard as a black woman to just be free.”

Likewise, Arata discussed facing racism as a child. She said there were never other black people at her schools, and while in elementary school, everyone treated her as “other.”

After being asked what to do as a Generation Z leader, Arata said, “peaceful, beautiful, like joyous protest.”

Previously, in an August interview with ABC’s Byron Pitts, Arata described the July 21, 2020 protest that led to her arrest as “super filled with joy.”

During the July protest, Arata led a group of demonstrators onto Highway 101 in San Luis Obispo and blocked traffic in both directions. While the group was marching through town, Arata led the chant, “Fuck your comfort,” aimed at diners at restaurants.

Arata and others chased down people attempting to get away. The events that took place during the protest have led to a contentious ongoing court case involving Arata and other protesters, one who kicked an officer in the crotch and another who broke a car window with a skateboard.

Neither Arata, nor any of the other participants in the Soul of a Nation segment addressed the case while on the show. One of the participants in the segment, Cullors, previously spoke at a rally held in support of Arata in front of the San Luis Obispo courthouse.


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Like a flower in the Spring, may she fade away when the heat comes. Just like the fading flower, her fame is only for a moment. Bring on the heat.


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I have been trying to gain understanding on why Tiana has had it out for Slo County. And I think she just exposed her true issue! She was the only black girl in her school? So she saw herself as the different girl just because of her skin color. Was she denied anything because of it? I seriously doubt it. But being the only one I am sure she felt the odd man out. Maybe she wanted to date the boy who was dating that white girl? I am sure it has a lot to do with her vendetta. But Dear Girl, your blame is on the wrong people. You dont blame the white people, you should have been asking your Mother, why did you put me in a school were I was the Only black kid, making me the odd one out?? I am sure the other kids just saw her for Tiana. A beautiful girl? OR maybe there were one or two racists jerks who taunted her? BUt seriously, this is really a personal issue between her and her parents, for putting her in an All white school!

There ya go people! Thats’ her real issue! Maybe a bad choice for Mom to make, putting her there. She won’t be mature enough to deal with it until she is young 30’s, But being raised with all white people, she has to prove to herself she can connect with the black community? hmmm?

I’m hoping she will find balance, and let go of her hatred and bigotry. the sooner the better for her own soul. I would expect the good people in her new found community will help her find that peace and balance.


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While I agree there’s plenty of racism to go around, my daughter who is a fiercely proud African American woman…was a little offended, maybe disappointed, in Arata’s comment how she has to “fight so hard as a black woman to be free”… considering her privilege life as a Clay Poly student, her entitlement attitude, & her raging hypocrisy among the reasons. And so it goes….


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She never attended CP…


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Will the real Tianna Arata please stand up? Its all about manipulating & controlling the court of public opinion. Well on her way to a nice cushy life in politics, shes a natural.

And we are well on our way to having “truth” next in the cross hairs of the cancel culture.


16

Is this how you win the Nobel Peace Prize? Maybe we should give her the key to city too, then again, Heidi needs it to get to work. Back to a cup of coffee and Mad Comics where real exists.


50

Tianna can wear a pretty flower dress and smile while talking about’ feeling joy’ and ‘fighting hard to be free’ but the real Tianna will emerge sooner than later. Those who are creating Tianna’s new image can remove from Google the photo of her stomping on the American flag while it burns but Investigative reporters do not have to dig too deep to discover Tianna’s background and how her mother scammed the system to raise her children on the backs of tax payers. Remember in America we love to put someone on a pedestal and them tear them down. Just a matter of time…


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I witnessed plenty of protestors “stomping on the American flag while it burns” in the late 60’s. Most of those evil doers went on to do quite well for themselves and actually became good Republicans within 10-20 years.


Guessing this young lady will do fine. I’m glad she’s making an issue of something we have ignored for many years as the rich got richer and the middle class, working class and people of color languished.


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This LYING, ignorant, race-baiting, menacing individual dragged her toxicity back to SLO from the Pacific Northwest in an attempt to make her bones (and some $$$) Disgusting and infuriating.


She is truly the sort of individual that takes a toll on a community. I hope she leaves the Central Coast for good!


WATCH THE VIDEOS and ~!@#$%^&*()_+ her comfort!


95

Based upon this post, you are neither nice nor honest, thus I will assume that the translation of dishonest pouting fits.


-97

Please stop lying.


I’ve watched ALL the videos. The VIDEO PROOF is compelling. Let’s break this down, shall we?


Arata obviously rejected a plea, goaded on by her “free” legal representation. No way will her lawyers allow her to be judged by a, well, judge. The VIDEO PROOF is simply too compelling. Arata can get her nails and hair done, dress-up nice for court and lie as she plays the racism/pity card, but in the end, no sane judge is going to find her innocent given the VIDEO PROOF.


That leaves a jury trial, where I submit someone like you could well end up on the jury, willing to ignore the truth, bound and determined to hang it. That’s her only shot.


For what it’s worth, I think I am a nice person. However I turn into an absolute tiger when people like Arata and their hanger-oners do damage to my local community in the hopes of making their bones and scamming a few bucks from rubes.


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People like you are making her famous, congratulations.


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AND who said prosecuting Tianna would only give her national attention making her a star? Instead of defusing, we wasted taxpayer dollars to feed a weird hyped up right wing anger to offset the protestors’ misplaced hyped up left wing anger. Only with apolitical prosecutors, and smart prosecutions, can we avoid this in the future, and have the effective law enforcement we are paying for.


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Just stop it…


Justice is justice. It’s not predicated on politics and cowardly “defusing.”


I can’t imagine that Arata wasn’t offered some sort of deal. It’s her that has chosen to roll the dice. Just thank goodness we have a local DA that has the resolve to enforce the law.


77

Buchon, I called this at the very beginning on CCN, trying to warn the community of how it will be presented. How, if we pursue prosecutions, we will be used. This was an easy call. Why couldn’t the DA see this?


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A local DA that handled the case so badly that we’re national news? He’s confusing hate with righteousness and so are you.


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So the protest was based in righteousness? Flag stomping, freeway blocking are poor choices as to how to express righteous indignation. Few will get it. Why not stomp a klan hood or something more contemporary but easily understood? There are plenty of white supremacist symbols. You are correct. I saw the action as an odd hatred of the country.


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Yes Tianna and her group put SLO between a rock and a hard place; that was their goal. The ‘happiest town in America’, a college town with plenty of students to show up to their marches… Tianna was always meant to be the face of the movement and they pushed SLO just hard enough to force their hand. Even if you support her you have to see she was making a statement, one that would be far more effective if she faced legal consequences to her actions. And that put SLO in a moral dilemma, one which the DAs office did attempt to diffuse by lowering her felony charges to misdemeanors. But they couldn’t drop them all together because they couldn’t allow the community to be terrorized: the shake down of local businesses, the harassment of downtown customers, the dangerous blocking of traffic (which endangered the lives of the protesters as well as the drivers, not to mention ambulance patients where mere seconds can count- it was a matter of time before we faced a true tragedy.) Unfortunately Tianna got exactly what she wanted while our community is trying to piece itself back together from this crazy past year.


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giveme, I call … Dow used local fear of the racially charged national disturbances to raise funds. In doing, Dow aligned his agency with one side. Further, he is continuing these hopeless expensive prosecutions, so he can continue to garner campaign support. We are, and will, lose everyone of these cases.


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With 4 current staff members at the City as active members of white supremacist groups it is simply hard to imagine. 2 reside in the Templeton and Paso Robles area. They tried to recruit me thinking we were like minded, not a chance.


-112

Did you report this? How do you define a white supremacist group? Perhaps use the Southern Poverty Law Center Hate Map: https://www.splcenter.org/hate-map/by-state


-26

Stop lying. Neither the Elks nor the Kiwanis are “white supremacist groups.” Please go back to where you came from.


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Who said anything about the Elks or Kiwanis? Hmm, are you inadvertently informing everyone about the Elks and/or Kiwanis? No one is lying, but you obviously have just let the cat out of the bag….


-71

Oh and “please go back to where you came from.” Sounds like you have a little bit of this is your hood mentality. Hmm, this is exactly what this young lady is making issue about.


-71

What the….??? C’mon now….


-2

Wait…what? Where?


-1

Huh?


-2

Violent white supremacist groups are a real danger. You shouldn’t be punking this.


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