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I never felt any glee at the misfortune of anyone else and never intimated that I did. Go try to pick a fight with someone else, no dice here. And if I had grabbed that bullshit bait, I would have been letting myself down. Go try to pick on someone else with your typical M.O.
I knew it was coming
she had her heart in the right place. She would never be effective in a leadership position with all the labeling going on so she did lessen a lot of negativity.
I watched/listened
to the whole speech, Q&A included, my first in depth look at this candidate. Impressive, yet with very little pepper related to social justice and the rampant racism in this nation. 99.999% is about economic issues, health care, jobs, SSI,and speaking at a college, student debt, the need for an educated workforce, minimum wage, paid sick time, maternity leave, climate change, which are all very important points to cover. But let's get real here, a majority of democrats and republicans could give a damn less about the racism and discrimination faced by POC and all candidates know this. I just have to point to the cop apologists and racists apologists that pop up here calling themselves progressives while justifying murder and abuse every time a recent(last three years) racial incident transpires on the streets of this country, and with Baltimore, they were just out the box.
Bernie's reference(s) to social justice are crafted so as to not offend or turn off an audience like the Des Moines college crowd with overt references to POC or racism. Again, a majority in the democratic and republican crowds DON'T care about POC or social justice as a policy or as a real important issue. The recent SCOTUS ruling on civil rights affirmed that. They don't want to hear it. I heard inner city mentioned, as two words only, equality being "birthright of all americans", militarization of police, police and citizen public cooperation and police accountability, AA youth joblessness being at 51%, much more than all other races combined, interspersed throughout his speech in a manner that it was more like a passing reference to his more important agenda of economic healing of this corporate and bank owned system which is guided by the billionaires like the koch brothers and waltons, his reference, not mine. He forgot to mention the engine, media, that is driving the koch brothers agenda to own america and all americans.
I have watched these speeches since the 60's and it was stock political stumping with the Bernie economic twist... He did get applause after speaking of sexism and progress made in social equality for women and gays and when he mentioned jobs instead of mass incarceration with no mention of the race of the majority of those incarcerated. But all socially aware citizens are supposed to know what he was referencing, I assume. He spoke of 40 years of social progress, using our black POTUS as an example of that progress in social areas but did not speak of how seriously eroded that progress has become in these last 40 years by the newly and openly professed racism of this culture against POC. He will appeal to many because of his careful crafted of words to accentuate the economic positive and nuance the social and racial negative. Understood, it's a political necessity in america. His call for a mass social movement is his attempt, I feel, to galvanize students and the concerned to fight against a racist right wing political and media driven juggernaut that will be hell to turn back if we don't start soon. I give him kudos if that is his intent with calling for this mass social movement against the right wing.
The Q&A was typical of a college crowd, climate change, GMO's, PAC's, product labeling. Understood why he carefully crafted his speech looking at the makeup of his audience. But it's still early yet so I can wait until he get's in front of a more diverse audience or a majority black audience where I can hear from him or any of our candidates, that we have to end racism and social inequality now. Not linked to any other policy matter. Then, in my book, they will be dealing with reality faced everyday by POC.
I like Bernie and feel he doesn't have a racist bone in his body and I know that Bernie does not and cannot have all the answers on how to defeat the stupidity, hate, anger and total ignorance that drives white racism. I just wish someone would openly say something like this with the promise that we must at least try. It is time and time is getting short.
I've got three pages of notes and that was a cursory summation. I will have to study in depth that nuance of which I spoke to try to understand if it resonates with those who don't have to face racism and economic struggle.
why all the huge floods
could it be related to climate change from global warming? Nah, that's too close to science and everyone knows climatological science is not true...
big problem
conservative, corporatist democrats. Big problem that, because the are part and parcel of this party, will always be the knife in the back for true progressives like Sen. Bernie Sanders.
but, but, but there is nothing confusing about
a certain 'privileged' segment of the population that is always telling POC what is most important for them to gain racial equality. We are not 'told' it's social justice/racial equality in housing, jobs, wages and the myriad other ways POC face white privilege racism everyday. We are only continually told that economic equality will stop all the racism, murders and executions of POC and poor people. This distractive BS is very familiar. "Money will solve your problems black person", forget that if I am financially able to survive, of which a vast majority of POC are in this country, so far, still are, that a tail light, walking through the wrong neighborhood, walking in the street, selling "unlicensed cigarettes, a child playing with a toy gun in the park or "mouthing off" for an unjust detention, by 'authority', neighborhood watch included, of any type can and will get you killed by the modern KKK hiding behind a badge and gun. But, but, but nothing. Nothing confusing about economic equality versus racial equality. The former will not help the latter and vice versa. Not in this country, never has, never will for a vast majority of POC.
No I have not listened yet
but today I do plan on listening. I know I can speak with a degree of certainty, as mentioned in another post here, Sen. Sanders does "walk the walk". There is no doubt in my mind. And while I expect no candidate to make racial issues a major policy stump speech( has never been really addressed by any presumptive candidate, ever) I expect strong and forceful words spoken about and to this large divisive issue confronting our culture. That's my bottom line. And according to BrotherIvan's post, Sen. Sanders is starting to address race and not just economics. I will see later today when I have the piece firmly planted in my consciousness.
What's TIA? All I could find was some kind of stroke like symptom...
after the fact,
of course she does. It's safe now since so many democrats voted against it. Transparent and obvious political 'announcement'...
She will NEVER have my trust and god forbid I'll be forced to vote for her.
I guess he has started
I missed that one myself, but the dailykos link from BrotherIvan looks like a respectable start. My feeling is that this behavior of racial inequality must be continually addressed. The reason racism has not disappeared is that after the election is over, it's usually back to "business as usual". The reference to MLK being in Memphis fighting for economic equality for the sanitation workers, in the KOS piece, is true but somewhat flawed because I know that even when the sanitation workers got some crumbs thrown to them, after the assassination of MLK, racism against them and POC in general continued. I was around and sentient, then. I know what I have seen and experienced of what has passed then and passes now as racial relations in this culture. Not a hell of a lot of difference, that I have experienced.
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