2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Bernie Supporters - Please read my post [View all]MrMickeysMom
(20,453 posts)I read your post and know that it is not meant to be an attack. That's not the problem I have with your post.
For those who don't know, I'm a white female, 2nd generation Italian immigrants into this country from the turn into the 20th century. That makes me nothing like Americans of Africans, who were enslaved and who have suffered hundreds of years of non-closure in this racist nation who suffered civil war over this issue.
But, we who vote and therefore have an interest in living in an America where native lives matter, black lives matter
. everyone's life matters
. WE ALL have the ability to judge every POTUS who has marked our progress (or lack thereof) towards liberty and a the new paradigm of loving each human being who shares this planet.
You think by criticizing Barack Obama for the policies he has turned his back is equal to hating him, but let me tell you something
. this not NOT what it means. It MEANS that I, as an informed citizen, have the right to criticize and expect leadership. Persons who voted for me as a local government official expected NO LESS.
I'm not sure how many posts here versus total posts have shown outright hate for President Obama, sans the trolls who enjoy their brief visit, but you had better come up with another idea for how we should discuss how black lives matter rather than kindly inform me that I have to do a better job in not criticizing the president.