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Florida Man... Caught Screwing The Country
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Duh
Working beautifully, btw...
Keep it up!
Stockholm, etc.... 
Brilliant.
Sanders has become the cool uncle and Clinton has become the cold aunt.
From: http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511082086
And...
Black voters are not monolithic and of one mind. There are a hundred ways to analyze the factions within the black community, but I want to highlight one cleavage I find particularly relevant to discussing the overwhelming disparity in support for Clinton over Sanders.
There isn’t one black America, but two: The children of the Great Migration and the children of those who stayed behind in the South. (Black immigrants are another story.) Having spent the first half of my life in the South and the second in Great Migration destination cities, I can attest that the sensibilities are as different as night and day.
There is a scene described in the Stanley Nelson’s fascinating documentary “Freedom Summer” about an integrated delegation from Mississippi to be seated at the 1964 Democratic Convention instead of the all-white one.
At one point, Congressman Adam Clayton Powell Jr. of New York is dispatched to the integrated delegation to persuade them to accept a pathetic compromise to remedy the standoff between the delegations.
Powell reportedly said to Fannie Lou Hamer, a member of the integrated delegation, “You don’t know who I am, do you?” Hamer responded, “Yeah, I know who you are. You are Adam Clayton Powell.” She continued, “But how many bales of cotton have you picked? How many beatings have you taken?”
It was her way of telling her Northern brother not to dictate what those in the South should do or how they should think.
Southerners in general bristle at this idea that they must be steered...
There isn’t one black America, but two: The children of the Great Migration and the children of those who stayed behind in the South. (Black immigrants are another story.) Having spent the first half of my life in the South and the second in Great Migration destination cities, I can attest that the sensibilities are as different as night and day.
There is a scene described in the Stanley Nelson’s fascinating documentary “Freedom Summer” about an integrated delegation from Mississippi to be seated at the 1964 Democratic Convention instead of the all-white one.
At one point, Congressman Adam Clayton Powell Jr. of New York is dispatched to the integrated delegation to persuade them to accept a pathetic compromise to remedy the standoff between the delegations.
Powell reportedly said to Fannie Lou Hamer, a member of the integrated delegation, “You don’t know who I am, do you?” Hamer responded, “Yeah, I know who you are. You are Adam Clayton Powell.” She continued, “But how many bales of cotton have you picked? How many beatings have you taken?”
It was her way of telling her Northern brother not to dictate what those in the South should do or how they should think.
Southerners in general bristle at this idea that they must be steered...
From: http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511340823
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1251&pid=1498991
Woot!
Seriously, keep doing what you're doing there.
Woot!
Seriously, keep doing what you're doing there.
About MY history...
Although SHE Did...
For all the preparation Hillary Clinton went through prior to this primary, she has found herself battling her past. She didn’t realize after the Occupy Movement and the 2012 election that saw Mitt Romney lose for his out-of-touch rhetoric, that tacking right against an economic populist progressive would backfire. She didn’t realize that her paid Wall Street speeches or her past donations from the Koch Brothers would be a problem in 2016. She didn’t recognize that her private in-home email server over which she conducted business as Secretary of State would become an issue. During that same period, she didn’t pick up on the fact that her arms dealing through the Clinton Foundation would come off as a conflict of interest. She saw nothing wrong with accepting millions from lobbyists including those from the fossil fuel industry. And while we’re discussing fossil fuels, she didn’t predict that supporting fracking would hurt her in presidential race where climate change is a central issue. In 2008, she didn’t see anything wrong with attacking Obama’s appeal to white voters, or making the sorts of race baiting remarks she made. She didn’t realize that the Iraq War was a mistake at the time. She didn’t have the foresight (let alone the conscience) to support same-sex marriage until 2013. And, of course, now she didn’t see anything wrong with praising the Reagan Administration for its shameful record on AIDS.
From: http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511494570
I will continue to fight for us.
