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In reply to the discussion: Just saw Kamau Bell on CNN still defending the phrase "defund the police". [View all]StarfishSaver
(18,486 posts)We stand in line for hours, face down intimidation and threats of violence, and jump through all manner of constantly moving hoops that require us to do everything but count the number of jellybeans in a jar. We do it without whining. We do it even when we're not "inspired" by candidates or they haven't catered to our every whim and scratched every itch. We don't demand that other Democrats say only what we want to hear and if they say anything that might offend us (which they often do) or that we just don't agree with or understand, we don't threaten to walk away and not vote.
And yet, we're supposed to continue tolerating being told that we need to hold our tongues or change our words or not be too loud or too visible or too angry or too impatient, lest a group of fickle, confused, unsupportive white people who are begged, pursued, coddled and appealed to year after year decide AGAIN not to vote for Democrats because we haven't enough to "earn" their support. Because, we're told, even after we consistently prove that it was our hard-cast vote that regularly drags Democrats across the finish line, that those white voters are the Democrats' only hope for winning elections.
Screw that.