fantastic tweet from Ana Navarro about the diversity on the stage tonight

[IcyPeas]

Regardless of who you support, there’s three women, two African-Americans, one Asian, one Latino, an openly gay veteran, a child of Indian and Jamaican immigrants, a Jewish guy, a vegan, and even a couple of straight, white guys on that stage.
Like it or not, this is America.

Link to tweet

[question everything]

1. Just curious: who is the vegan?

[George II]

3. Booker.

[Skittles]

9. Cory Booker

[customerserviceguy]

35. Were you watching last night?

It even came up in a moderator's question.

[cannabis_flower]

2. And..

candidates from the age of 37 to 78.

[dchill]

4. I like it.

[FM123]

5. Diversity is our strength!

[LAS14]

6. K & R So PROUD to be a Dem!!!! nt

[Tipperary]

7. I like Ana Navarro.

To use an old phrase - she’s a good egg.

[PJMcK]

12. Careful

She's a Republican strategist and a Never-Trumper. Like Rick Wilson, she's not really our friend. It's more like they're allies against a common enemy. After all, towards the end of World War II, the U.S. was allied with the Soviet Union against the Axis powers. When the war was over, they became our enemies. (I think there's an analogy there.)

Here's her Wikipedia entry:

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

Nonetheless, I, too, like the way she skewers Trump and his crew.

[DeminPennswoods]

21. Seems more a garden variety, old school type Republican

to me, not a rwnj.

[customerserviceguy]

36. Exactly

The biggest reason she hates Trump is that he destroyed her boy, Jebbie. She figures that Shrub is the only Republicon who could get comprehensive immigration reform passed.

[JohnnyRingo]

8. Compare to Trump's cabinet.

[jcgoldie]

10. Ana Navarro

WHy is she a Republican again? Other than she likes Jeb?

[DeminPennswoods]

22. Because she's Nicaraugan and her father

fought with the Contras. Reagan helped fund the Contras. She became an R because of that.

[Hortensis]

23. She's going to be conservative by nature. Basic orientation.

[Uncle Joe]

11. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread IcyPeas.

[grantcart]

13. Also good geographic diversity

East Coast, California, Texas, Minnesota, Indiana

[Hortensis]

24. Good point.

[AlexSFCA]

14. the irony is that those two straight white guys

may become the ticket, lol.

[NewJeffCT]

32. Biden/Bernie you mean?

If Biden wins the nomination,I see him picking a woman and/or somebody not white.

I think Sanders would do similar if he won the nomination.

[maddiemom]

34. Don't forget Beto. Biden and Bernie together WOULD be a problem, agewise.

[AlexSFCA]

37. Biden/Beto

[bubbazero]

15. after Cory Booker who is the second African-American?

[Doreen]

16. Kamala Harris.

[bubbazero]

17. I am not being snarky, really, just confused

Kamala Harris folks are Jamaican, and Indian-(India) or so I thought. Plz crct me if I am wrong here thanks

[Doreen]

18. No, I did not think you were being snarky.

I guess I have it wrong. Sorry.😁

[JI7]

27. black people in jamaica came from the same place as black people in the US

[Marcuse]

33. Senator Harris is a first generation African-American, as is President Obama.

[Kind of Blue]

39. You are not wrong but missing a part of the African diaspora.

Her father is born of people from where? She was born where? Answers: Africa and America. Sen. Harris can be categorized in many ways but her Africaness/Americaness is indisputable. But maybe more comfortable to view her as black American as she says of herself here and anywhere else on the planet; that speaks of a direct line to Africa no matter how you parse it.

[Hekate]

19. I like it a whole lot

[Kind of Blue]

20. And even afterward. I loved this moment...

Link to tweet

[Hortensis]

25. This always WAS America. The right's undergoing a seismic reaction

to finally being forced to realize this was not a picture of America after nearly 250 years of denial.



Funny thing, in going to grab that photo I found that in 1972, several years after the Ozzie and Harriet show ended, but reflecting the enormous civil rights advances of the 1960s, O & H tried another series, Ozzie's Girls, which ran for one season. The girls were college students rooming with them.

[TexasBushwhacker]

38. Ozzie and Harriet were always playing roles

IRL he was a band leader and she was a singer who couldn't boil water.

[Kind of Blue]

40. Oh, wow. Brenda Skyes, one of my role models.

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I didn't know "Ozzie's Girls" is one of her earliest works. I remember my mom saying "beautiful and talented girl" around '75 and I paid attention to her. One season, no wonder I missed it. Watched an episode and surprised by how natural and not unusual a black girl in the mix was portrayed. And the anti-misogynistic, though paternalistic, Ozzie trying to protect the girls is surprising. Interesting plug for Social Security in this episode, too. I don't have to imagine a lot of Moral Majority/racist heads exploding.

Besides her influence on me, I don't know anyone of my generation not knowing of her marriage to Gil Scott Heron and his timeless "The Revolution Will Not be Televised...the revolution will be live."

I forget how early television did try and failed to accentuates non-othering in a world that' resists natural diversity.

Thanks for posting this, Hortensis. No matter how old it is, the message of the right to exist without harm persists.

[Kurt V.]

26. tbh i don't care what a republican tweets.

[Funtatlaguy]

28. I like Ana. Wish she was a Democrat.

[rurallib]

29. Now if everybody can pull together next year to get the traitor out

of the White House AND

take over the senate, keep the house and take some states back.

[ehrnst]

30. I certainly hope that no one criticizes people who are enthusiastic about a diverse candidate field!

Oh, wait...

[BlueMississippi]

31. k&r nt