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If the anger runs that deep towards black women by Sanders supporters - god help them!
That said - I believe Sanders would have his security intervene if someone is being physically threatened or assaulted. Because that's WHO he is.
Just because I don't agree with his platform doesn't mean I don't find him to be a GOOD person. 
stay with the constant eyeballing & sideways glances. Escalation wouldn't happen until they came back to DU to talk about how they really felt. 
Escalation wouldn't happen until they came back to DU to talk about how they really felt
We will move forward! 
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You definitely do NOT work in Wireless!
It was a woman who immigrated from China 20 years ago snarking about a woman she didn't realize I was friends with OUTSIDE of work - until I asked Danka to come get me before she walked down to the coffee shop.
Only in America do 'new Americans' (as O'Malley calls them - I like that) complain about other new Americans not speaking English!
bilingual. I just got told on this board to learn why yours' isn't a word. I had to explain that I'm ESL (please don't let them accuse me of being foreign because that will be #5) & my keyboard uses both English & Spanish. #4 last night for being ageist against Sanders & Clinton.
My husband is EFL -
Italian first
French Second
Portuguese third
English Fourth
You see it your way - I see it mine.
Mine however is through the lens of having experienced angry white folks in America - angry at the color of my skin - from the time I was five. That's around the time my dad left the military (we were stationed in Germany) and I learned that older white people could be vicious.
As much as you want to 'undo' those experiences of not just me - but MANY black people -
You can't undo them.
It is what it is. It's not your fault. You aren't responsible.
But I'm not a fucking idiot either. I won't put my hand on a hot stove or walk out in the middle of 5th ave in Manhattan at 5 pm either.
I love them, as they cluelessly prove the opposing point.
You ain't seen nothing, yet! Just wait another 28 months ... in between the vilifying of the next Democratic president, there will be major (President) Obama love, all through DU.
In spite of his endorsement of Hillary and saying something nice about Sanders.
When is it gonna be Martin's turn!
the friend of my friend is my friend, even when my new friend, was my enemy!
(I'm sure that the fact my new friend is Black has nothing to do with my sudden friendship, though! 
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"no permanent friends or permanent enemies. Just permanent interests".
Reconstituting a corpse from under a bus and yelling -
I'm still calling that one out as the goalposts keep moving around. Right in that thread they were shown repeatedly where they called for the firing of Sent Booker, but apparently it was for good reason so it's ok.
take some of them off ignore to see the rest of this story.
is that it wasn't like he gave some ringing endorsement of Sanders. He just said what most people have been saying for a while. That Sanders has a great record on minority issues. That was it.
But this same crowd that has shit on that man -- and I guess were FEVERISHLY hoping we'd forgotten that -- couldn't run to lick his face hard enough. We called this crap WEEKS ago. We noted over and over again in this forum that Sanders' minority support was so low that any black or brown person that endorsed him would be waved around here like a flag. No endorsement would be too small or insignificant.
But even I didn't realize the depths these folks would go to. Booker endorsed Hillary, said something vaguely nice about Sanders and these folks still acted like he called the man the second coming of Jesus. Oh Lordy...
and I'll include Latinos, that were here in the Los Angeles Rally of 27,500 were
PAID or INDUCED to attend?
Unbelievable that such a thing would even be posted on DU.
first: there are plenty of those who have already done that.
second: I'm one of them. http://www.democraticunderground.com/128035261
third: you're calling them out as well. how many people need to repeatedly call out the same people until you feel better about it?
look around here, really observe, not everyone is the same and not every person needs to be held accountable for the few.
let's bury the hatchet, in the end, everything will work out. 
It's called being color blind.
You know, I just read Go Set A Watchman - it's written by the same woman who wrote To Kill A Mockingbird - and many of the same characters appear.
She has an internal breakdown - dialogue with herself -
Where she curses Atticus (her father) for allowing her to become color blind. Because the shock of how white people could feel/think when pressed, or how a black person she grew up with might resent her - was a shock to her system.
What I would ask you to try and understand - is not everyone is you.
That said - at 42 years of age I have ZERO faith in my fellow man. We aren't all the same. There is far too much cruelty handed by one human being to another to not believe that everyone is ultimately out for themselves.
And race in America for black people - is real. It's not something flowery that can be pushed aside with language painted in warm and cozy colors. It is an EXPERIENCE. It is a way to EXPERIENCE America as your country - but to some degree your enemy.
I spent my formative years in Germany. My dad being an elite American officer (green beret) was accepted into a little private club . . . of other elite officers. Mostly world war II vets.
Some of the nicest men in the world - they always had a super huge gummie bear for me. They changed - those men changed - because they received (their country) severe punishment for what they had done.
Come to Rochester NY - 1978- two incidents.
The woman who wouldn't take a piece of candy from the candy bowl at the Hilton on Jefferson road because I just had.
The neighbor who tried to run me over in the street.
I was five.
Now my mom's dad that was a REALLY great white man. He deliberately (in Southern California) went out of his way to hire Hispanics and blacks in the 1950's in high profile positions. Even had women architects (he was a builder). Probably would have hired an Asian Jewish Woman to be a forewoman if she had applied! You know what he believed?
Money talks bullshit walks.
Saw my dad's stripes and bars and could have cared less about the color of his skin (this is 1969 mind you).
So all that - maybe you can bring down the slogans and kick this up?
This is who I am:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/118716514
In watching his Charleston Address several times - I believe he's signaling to us that we don't have to wait for a Great White Hope to save us.
I have the advantage of being able to put pressure on Cory Booker -today. Not in 2016 -but now.
Where is you advantage?
What kind of activism are you engaged in - now? Not in January 2017.
I'm engaged with the Hunterdon County Anti - Racism Coalition. It's not partisan - and it's not a 'lets have an election' focused organization. It's about helping and healing right this minute. Reaching across the aisle - and not waiting for Washington D.C.
This might be helpful to those who believe that the civil rights of black folks are under fire - but don't know where to start -
And aren't waiting on a future politician to do the right thing.
What are YOU doing in YOUR community today? Don't wait on Washington DC or a Presidential Candidate. Or a Governor. What are you doing today?
See - I've been listening to all of this nonsense since I was kid - and I'll tell you what . . . if you are talking it too much - you most likely aren't walking it. Activism begins in your own back yard - not just with 'personal treatment' of people but how you are actively engaged in your community.
I like that call to arms. thank you for all that you've done and are doing. I support that.
Personally, if it's shade & sideways glances you're in the market for, I'd recommend a Tea Party gathering, they seem friendlier.
particular group is being monitored so heavily, but alert stalking sucks. Thanks Steven. 
lecture me. Don't be pointing your finger in my face and telling me how grateful I should be. I don't respond well to that. I also don't give a shit who you marched with, or how far you marched. I don't owe you shit for doing the right thing, and you should expect nothing in return for doing the right thing. I had run-ins with some Hillary supporters in '08 who lectured me about all that white women had done for us. Through no fault of her own, it soured me on Hillary. I hope no Hillary supporter is doing that this time around. I'm looking for stability & continuity, and for me, Hillary or Joe Biden would offer that.
After the BLM blow-up, we began to see posts from so-called "liberals" telling us how grateful we should be because some dude marched with MLK. Well, David Horowitz (vile rightwing tool) marched with MLK as well. Just sayin'.
THANK YOU! 
Your past laurels, and the sitting on thereof, don't impress me. BRING IT!
Because Sanders supporters are like the Ferguson police department.
Try going to one. They're free. See what it's like. I suspect you will find the situation far less threatening than you claim.
lol I have to tune my violin first.
People are going to make assumptions if they see two black women together at a Bernie rally at this point. 
He's been working on reaching out to people of color, and we (his supporters) need to support him in that. He certainly doesn't need anyone to be afraid to attend his rallies.
