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[Cary]

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I officially declare my race to be Democrat.

Please, no ethnic slurs.

[Doodley]

1. Yes, we should all be fighting together for the same values, not using racial slang to divide us.

[lame54]

2. How many Dems does it take to screw in a light bulb?

[Kajun Gal]

3. One. How many repubs? Well, they never will! They'll tell ya they are gonna but

never will!

[Heartstrings]

4. I see what you did here...

And declare my race a Democrat as well....

[BlueJac]

5. Mine too!

Resist!

[Eliot Rosewater]

6. And maybe you can do that. POC however are defined by the color of their skin

all day everyday and everywhere in America. If you are a POC you know this.

Whether trying to get a job, apartment, cup of coffee or just 5 minutes of free wifi, a POC color will MATTER.

Some are shot for jaywalking

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Michael_Brown

some for selling cigarettes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Eric_Garner

Some for just playing with toys, Tamir Rice. I could do many more names, many more links, but I hope the point is made.

I dont know if you are a POC or not, I am not. I do recognize the difference they experience vs me though.

I AGREE With you about a Nazi in the WH.

[sunRISEnow]

7. Yes.

[Heartstrings]

8. Point is taken and well deserved.

What the op is stating, I believe, is just that we have been getting to the point of arguing over a privilege one race has over another too much and our focus needs to include that discrimination but also get aligned for the fight we have at midterms. That fight is inclusive of everyone’s rights...imo.

[Eliot Rosewater]

9. Oh it is inclusive but non POC should realize, BY NOW, their experience

is NOTHING like that of POC.

NOTHING.

People of Color can point out white supremacy, white privilege AND vote at the same time.

[Heartstrings]

10. Never said it wasn't....

I agree with you, make no mistake about that. My point was to focus on the inclusion of discrimination for our midterm fight.

[Eliot Rosewater]

11. OK. GOTV

[Heartstrings]

12. You betcha!

And I'm dragging anybody and everybody with me....

[Cary]

14. Yes.

[Cary]

15. I have every right to choose my battles

The idea that I am somehow responsible for every injustice or that I can fight every battle is irrational.

[heaven05]

16. that's right

yet understand, I can't choose because my battle, along with millions of others in this country, continues 24/7 every day. Does that clear up anything as to what being a POC in this country means?

[Cary]

17. You assume that I dont know what it means

You have no basis for that assumption. At what point do you cross over into gaslighting?

[Cary]

18. I have never said otherwise

Have you ever studied the French Revolution? I am with Edmund Burke on that one. That's a Democrat racial trait. I just made it that.

Unfortunately it is also Democrat racial trait to go overboard with guillotines. That's a lack of discipline Elliot and it is a fatal flaw.

[Eliot Rosewater]

19. Twice you said Democrat when DemocratIC is more appropriate.

[Cary]

20. I am a Democrat, not a Democratic

It is the Democratic Party.

What does that have to do with my ethnicity?

[Stallion]

13. I'm a 6th Generation Democrat and so is My Yellow Dog