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In reply to the discussion: WillyT has been banned. [View all]nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)and myself am going to enjoy the show.
And you addressed none of what I said. Which is rather typical. And you are right, DU is not facebook, which is a bad thing, Those conversations that are happening on facebook WITHIN the local community, would not happen here becuase you would consider it racist. Suffice it to say, that conversation happened within the African American community, and for the record, it should have occurred within four walls, not facebook. But it did... oh and there are books about this division as well.
Go get yourself this book: Eugene Robinson is the author by the way. The title is Disintegration.
He is addressing exactly that process. So you can call it racist, I call it reality. That conversation is happening. And all of you, and I am addressing you as a member of the AA group, can pretend it is not happening, or can pretend it is racist to address the issue and how more than a few, at this point I cannot say how many, feel the democrats and AA politicians have betrayed them. But it is happening, and the process is only accelerating. I am seeing it in real time in the streets.
So when you scream... I am just enjoying the show and the pretense that is is not happening.
As I said, that article from Common Dreams was not timely, for DU, but this conversation will happen wether you like it or not, because it is happening. And internally the language being used is far worst than what was in that piece. I feel this place is truly, way behind the times of the many processes happening in reality in many communities, It is willful, and it is the DNC pretending things are not happening.
I am going to enjoy the surprises to come, starting this year, but going forward. D is no longer going guarantee certain things as we move forward. It is party realignment and sooner or later, reliable voting blocks realize this. The process has started.
You go on and pretend it is not happening, I will stick to reality.