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In reply to the discussion: I don't know what the hell is wrong with DU right now. [View all]Number23
(24,544 posts)is powerless"
I have LONG since suspected that with a lot of these people, this explains the animosity towards black posters and black issues better than anything else. This same crowd picks apart everything the President does and only supports black posters that frame issues of racism as a "class" issue. And needless to say, this same band of fuckwits will barge into to ANY thread about racism and try to turn it into a discussion about how "Obama hasn't done this" or how the real issue is class, not race.
We are to be assisted/supported as long as it somehow benefits THEM. Which is why so many in this tribe have leached onto the problems involving the drug war. I laugh my ass off at these folks, they are so stupid. So transparent and pitiful. They are as closed mouthed as they can be about discrepancies in prison sentencing, racial profiling in hiring and policing, police brutality against minorities but the MILISECOND they can pipe up about how the drug war disproportionately affects minorities - there they are! And I'm sure it's just coincidence that getting rid of the drug war would make it infinitely easier for them and their 9 remaining functioning brain cells to go out and find some... whatever. But if they can crouch their self serving need for weed as a "social issue" because OMG! Look at how it affects the NEgroes!1 then they are all too happy to do it. And they are mad as hell that SO many of us see right through them (though there are a few of us that seem to go along to get along).
A lot of these folks seemed to almost SEETHE that black people, including many black posters on DU, have been and remain stalwart supporters of this president. I guess in their heads, because they are SOOO much smarter/better/in possession of knowledge of the REAL issues that affect the world, that if we don't turn on the man as they demand we do every minute of every day, if we can't be their lackeys, I mean allies, then we're in the same boat as the right wing. And they wonder why so many here would consider being their allies as quickly as we would the Tea Party.