Reply #182: one small caveat

[Two Americas]

Conyers is my rep, and I have to ask people not to forget that as a Black representative he does not enjoy the support of the white liberal community, and that he represents one of the most oppressed and poorest districts in the country, and that he must stand for what the best interests of the people in his community are, not what is best for or desired by the relatively upscale and well-off white liberal activist community.

Black leaders carry a higher burden, and for the most part the white community - liberal or progressive or not whatever - does not have the back of a Black politician.

He is no doubt being held hostage by Pelosi, and is no doubt asking himself if he bests serves the needs of the people he represents by taking a fall or martyring himself. The Black community and the Black representatives were fighting against the right wingers long before and much harder than the white liberal community has ever dreamed of doing, and are at much greater risk and under much more pressure.

For many relatively well-off white liberals, it is just shocking shocking shocking that we live in a police state, and they now think that something must be done! Black people have been living in that police state for a long, long time, and suffering much more from that and at much greater risk than most white liberal activists are.