2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Bernie Supporters - Please read my post [View all]bravenak
(34,648 posts)I know you're not blaming him. But many seem to toss out charges that Obama has done nothing. I suppose that I wrote that more for them than for you. Well, they like to blame him Lynch and Holder, which is why it always makes me take notice.
I understand critisizing a policy that you don't like. So many (not you), take it to extremes and just rail away after him day after day and never notice how bad it look. He gets blamed for so much stupid stuff that has nothing to do with him that it's just exhausting. When we FINALLY get a hispanic president you'll notice tgat along with the straight up racist attacks, you'll see nonsense attacks from our side that will let you know EXACTLY how racist our allies can be. It's upsetting. I just ignore ALL criticism now. All of it.
Hillary may or may not stab Obama in the back. It would be EXTREMELY stupid, because it would rip apart her coalition. He is still more popular than her and that will only improve once he is out of office. One wrong move and she'll end up a one termer.
As far as she and Bill attacking him- that did not work out so well. Now Bill is on an apology tour and Hill is running around being as quiet as a church mouse. Obama is a more historical figure than they are, and even if Hillary wins he will still be. And nore popular. Always. Hell, I might add a major in order to focus on black studies and Obama in particular. I plan on doing a master, possibly in Black history/history in order to be a historian teaching the next generation about him. He has surpassed MLK.
I always try to remind people who think that one must have money in order not to suffer racism that that fact only applies to non whites. Looks at the Jews. They had money. Their money was stolen and they were murdered. Blamed their wealt for the poverty of others. Genocided them. We are still finding their stolen wealth in vaults. No. Even our poor shoukd not suffer racism. We do nit have time to wait until black people are wealthy to solve racism. We need new laws protecting us against institutiinal racism and police violence NOW. Whether we get money or not we eeserve the same quality of life as whites do. After 400 years we deserve at least that and more.
Now, of course we want jobs too. That should be a give . Our communities should have never suffered from disinvestment after all the free work we've done to build America. We are OWED. We have ALL allowed our politicians to think they gift us with jobs rather than that their jobs depend on us living well. The only way to defeat any oligarchy is for all of us to stand against them as EQUALS. We are only as strong as our weakest links. We have left our black links to rot and no wonder things are falling down.
I read this article and it sums up a bit of what I was saying too. http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/08/04/bernie-sanders-top-five-race-problems-the-whiteness-of-nominal-socialism/