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A NYMag article again

PeraclesPlease — Sat, 26 Nov 2016 20:39:35 +0000

A NYMag article again mentions the Ricky Ray Rector story with no context of killer, NYMagthough perhaps more importantly discusses the "dirtbag left", a rather entitled constituency that has nothing much to lose, not under much pressure, but basically can comport like Beavis 'n Butthead and all's cool, bro. Except the objects of their scorn. again it's not the whole story, but the different pieces of our mosaic are instructive.

Danny, to be blunt, virtually

rmrd0000 — Tue, 22 Nov 2016 03:34:43 +0000

In reply to LBJ fought the Vietnam War

Danny, to be blunt, virtually every black person I talk to sees that Hillary won the popular vote ( by > 1.7 million votes) and are angry at the Trump voters ( who were majority white). There is a tremendous lack of trust of those white voters. Blacks I know feel that Hillary was robbed. We are obviously talking to different segments of the community. My acquaintances see negative changes in their future under president Trump.

Edit to add:

Here is Toni Morrison in the New Yorker

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/11/21/aftermath-sixteen-writers-o...

Here is an article in the Root on the impact of Trump on the black middle class

http://www.theroot.com/articles/politics/2016/11/the-black-middle-class-...

LBJ fought the Vietnam War

rmrd0000 — Tue, 22 Nov 2016 00:12:36 +0000

In reply to You knocked this one out of

LBJ fought the Vietnam War but got Civil Rights legislation passed. The alternative was Goldwater. Hillary and the majority of the Black Caucus supported the 1994 crime bill. The majority of black voters knew Hillary was the best choice. They were overruled by white voters. Trump is our new reality. Soon, we will hear gripes about the racist running the Attorney General's office. We may see attempts to nationalize Stop and Frisk. Either Trump was going to be president or Hillary was going to be President. We knew that Trump was a racist. We are not surprised by Trump selecting Jefferson Beauregard Sessions as AG. We are not surprised by white supremacists rejoicing Trump's election. There was no rational argument to be made that nothing would change if Hillary or Trump got elected. Trust me, change is coming with Beauregard.

thanks. I might add that

PeraclesPlease — Mon, 21 Nov 2016 18:49:28 +0000

In reply to You knocked this one out of

thanks. I might add that besides lack of sympathy for people of color, there's lack of sympathy for people without a specific visible handicap (e.g. in a wheelchair, missing a leg, etc.). Mental handicaps? No money, no time, little understanding. If you have a speech defect, people just assume you're stupid, and you go from there. Sicknesses? a quick head feint and we focus on something less depressing. We are at a very primitive stage in dealing with any kinds of disabilities, even though as noted earlier, 1 of 6 voters have disabilities, 1 of 4 has someone in the family or themselves with some kind of disability. Yet the assumption is a vast swath of normal population, somewhere between one of the Jenners (not Bruce) or Paul Ryan or something else acceptable. Look at what Huffpost's idea of empowering imagery is.

You knocked this one out of

Danny Cardwell — Mon, 21 Nov 2016 18:35:37 +0000

In reply to The Neoliberal Inside Me

You knocked this one out of the park. The truth is Hillary's harshest critics were holier than thou progressives. I didn't support her during the primary, but I never went out of my way to harm her or Bernie. The caricature of Hillary the right has sold for decades resonated with more than just their talk radio Fox news base. I live in a part of Virginia that's almost impossible for a progressive to win. Centrist or Conservative Democrats aren't our enemy, yet this was the false choice we were sold. I have read The New Jim Crow and Michelle Alexander lays out a very compelling case showing causal links between the three strikes law and the way local jurisdictions used Bill Clinton's own legislative actions to justify their own racially biased sentencing practices. I'm not here to use 20/20 hindsight to defend or attack the actions taken in the 90's, but the effects of those actions have destroyed families. I wish America would have taken the strategy of treatment and therapy that we are now embracing, but it's hard to get that sort of sympathy for people of color. All of our musings about what did or didn't happen in the 2016 election cycle will be for not if we can't find a way forward. We have less than a year before the media starts 2018 midterm coverage.

Cornel is back at Harvard.

rmrd0000 — Sun, 20 Nov 2016 18:13:45 +0000

In reply to Cornell West in the Guardian

Cornel is back at Harvard. The Peter Principle.

Cornell West in the Guardian

NCD — Sun, 20 Nov 2016 17:53:04 +0000

In reply to It will be interesting to see

Cornell West in the Guardian piece seems almost nostalgic for the good ole days of slavery and lynching.......

It will be interesting to see

rmrd0000 — Sun, 20 Nov 2016 16:56:24 +0000

In reply to Yes, the margin she peeled

It will be interesting to see her explain that Jefferson Beauregard Sessions will go after police abuse in the same manner seen with Eric Holder. She may have helped usher in nationalized Stop and Frisk.

Cornel West is predictably cheering the fact that Hillary lost

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/nov/17/american-neolibera...

He has been accused for downplaying the threat that Trump poses.

http://thedailybanter.com/2016/11/cornel-west-donald-trump/

Yes, the margin she peeled

PeraclesPlease — Sun, 20 Nov 2016 15:46:29 +0000

In reply to Michelle Alexander left her

Yes, the margin she peeled off wasn't huge, but a faction here, a faction there and soon the election's lost. She and Cornel can discuss the righteousness of Jill Stein with revolutionary theocracy till the cows come home.

Michelle Alexander left her

rmrd0000 — Sun, 20 Nov 2016 14:34:15 +0000

In reply to The Neoliberal Inside Me

Michelle Alexander left her position at the Ohio State Law school,and is now at Union Theological Seminary. She will teach courses on interaction of law, public policy, and faith. She likely feels that there will be no difference between a Trump Presidency and a Clinton Presidency.

https://utsnyc.edu/michelle-alexander-joins-union-theological-seminary/

Black voters disagree with her by a ratio of over 11:1