The Democratic Congresswomen were not the first...
The Democratic Congresswomen were not the first nor will they last to be on the receiving end of vial racist hatred. It is being stoked by vicious lies and escalating fear that white people live in fear of becoming the minority.
Fact is it happened to Obama as well when Rudy said:
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"He's a patriot, I'm sure," the former mayor said. "What I'm saying is that, in his rhetoric, I very rarely hear him say the things that I used to hear Ronald Reagan say, the things I used to hear Bill Clinton say, about how much he loves America. I do hear him criticize America much more often than other American presidents."
https://www.usatoday.com/story/theoval/2015/02/19/obama-rudy-giuliani-politico-love-of-america/23662799/
The racist attacks against our First Black President and the newly elected women, WOC, need to stopped with your vote. The outrage for these four brave women should be lauded. It should. However where was the outrage when John Lewis and every member of the Black Caucus was booed and shouted down at the DNC convention. At OUR CONVENTION and it was not coming from the right, it came from the left.
Vote. Not a purity vote for today but a vote for a Democrat that will allow us a tomorrow. A future for ourselves and our children's future.
We are a rainbow Nation
The decades before the Civil War involved an argument between white people. Slaves weren’t given agency to determine their own fates. The situation is different now. We are a rainbow nation. And people of color aren’t waiting to be invited to the discussion. They are taking the reins and making sure their voices are heard. And many times what they say is painful to hear, especially if, as a white person, you consider yourself “woke”. Even though I’m Latino, I know I have white privilege because of the color of my skin, and I take in everything, even when it’s painful.
But this is good. We are way past the days when the conversation was just among the members of the dominant group. The formerly voiceless are not keeping quiet. What’s happening now is proof that our country has changed, and irrevocably. The frightened attendees at Trump’s rallies can rail and fulminate all they want, but they will have to adjust to a new reality, where people who don’t look like them or worship like them demand their seat at the table. And they won’t be able to stop the emerging majority.
Of course, part of the fear is that people of color will take revenge for the centuries of denigration. That indicates an awareness that they and their ancestors did, in fact, oppress others. And in their fear, they can’t imagine that they, in turn, will be oppressed.
Read More:https://www.thepeoplesview.net/main/2019/7/18/send-her-back
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I remember the slanderous emails hitting my email inbox right after Barack Obama announced his bid for presidency. Roughly around the year 2007?
The more lies that came my way, the more research I did on him. I was able to debunk the lies and smears and the more they tried to brainwash me, the more defiant I became.
I ended up putting a bunch of family members in the spam inbox. 
I taught my eldest great nephew at the age of 2 to say his name when he came on TV. When the campaigns started in earnest every time he he heard the ads he yelled out at the end "and I approve this message." lol~ 
Gotta say, Obama had me when he gave the keynote speech in 2004.
Your nephew for the win, hedda! 
So smart. I can just see your jaws dropping in unison!
We have another coming any day now.
