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In reply to the discussion: "Woke", "cancel culture", and the meaning of words [View all]Baitball Blogger
(46,776 posts)60. I know definitely that he was talking about racism around that second election because
it was the moment that everything changed. Those four years before, he was walking the full Centrist line, not saying too much about minority issues, in order to avoid upsetting the moderate swing-voters. But then, Trayvon Martin was killed on February 2012. Obama said that he could have been his son. Of course, the moderate swing-voters were turned off by it, but that's when the issue of racism began to get legs. By the time the election came up in November, Obama clearly stated that the resistance he was facing from the Senate was racist-related.
Then, after Obama came BLM, followed by the huge win in awareness with the George Floyd prosecution. And now, they want to put the black genie back in the bottle. Good luck with that.
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Whether you like it or not, you're doing exactly what Carville is calling a problem.
Silent3
Apr 2021
#10
Liberal was a fine word and description of a political ideology for years but then it was hijacked
Demsrule86
Apr 2021
#36
Yeah, I am sorry...I could make the excuse that my house is a disaster as we prepare to sell it
Demsrule86
Apr 2021
#74
Only Black and Brown people and our allies are expected to explain ourselves and adjust our words
StarfishSaver
Apr 2021
#9
Nope. The burden of proof is not on the people who will be most harmed by the misunderstanding.
Baitball Blogger
Apr 2021
#16
Nobody has to explain themselves...everyone can have their own opinion. I agree with
Demsrule86
Apr 2021
#39
Actually, Obama was very vocal about racism being directed at him going during the
Baitball Blogger
Apr 2021
#53
Well, you sure set the record straight with that pithy and well researched response
StarfishSaver
Apr 2021
#59
I know definitely that he was talking about racism around that second election because
Baitball Blogger
Apr 2021
#60
Anecdotes about the few times Obama mentioned race in no way obviates my point
StarfishSaver
Apr 2021
#62
You have spent the last several posts pulling things out of thin air I did not aay
StarfishSaver
Apr 2021
#67
This is revisionist history. When Clinton ran for president, we had 12 years of GOP presidents.
Demsrule86
Apr 2021
#38
I listened to a video with a crazy women afraid that vaccinated people were a danger...
Silent3
Apr 2021
#35
A big part of the problem is that too many people who have never experienced racism
StarfishSaver
Apr 2021
#17
It was never papered over for me. It became blatantly obvious during the 2016 primaries...
Blasphemer
Apr 2021
#40
What is your evidence that Carville was "ignoring whiteness as a social structure"?
Silent3
Apr 2021
#41
+1, He used their framing cause he never heard it being used by black folk. He needs some black fri
uponit7771
Apr 2021
#76