How not to treat your allies

[BumRushDaShow]

160. "So Gore and Kerry are black men?

You'll have to ask their mommas.

<--- adding this for the sarcasm impaired

WV voted for the Republican in 2000 and 2004. (And 1984 and 1972, but those were pretty monumental waves)

I'm also talking about the Primaries. Aren't you? What you saw happen in 2008 with certain states (including here in PA in what is often dubbed "Pennsyltucky&quot was pure prejudice. Where in WV, you had 40% supporting a convict over Obama and DLC Fast Eddie Rendell was doing everything he could to "drive away black allies" when it came to Obama vs Hillary (despite the fact that DUers keep insisting that Obama is somehow DLC) .

The key word you lopped off was "alone". Rage alone hasn't changed anything, because rage alone is too easy to manipulate by the status quo or lead to nihilism.

Uh, project much? I never said anything about "alone". In fact, I wrote that movements are not "monogamous" and offer a variety of methods. But apparently you ignored that and chose to "lop off" any sense of urgency and intensity that any group might feel with respect to what they feel is happening to them. In fact - THIS is what I wrote that you ignored-

"And if you think that "rage" hasn't changed anything, tell that to some of the Vietnam War protestors or Act Up! Most movements that bring about "change" are not monogamous. They deploy various methods to get what they want. "

Rage as the engine, but channeled through careful planning has been the only source of change in our country.


Right now, BLM has rage. They do not appear to have any planning. How do they propose for the President to "end racism"? What specific steps should he or she take? Are those actions actually legal?

Here we go with what people keep saying over and over and over again. STOP. Just STOP defining what other people are and what they are "supposed to do". This is the very height of paternalistic white superiority. Unless you have gone full blown into joining that organization and even know how they operate, how can you sit on the high horse and dictate what you think they should do or not do?

And if it is appropriate to point that rage at someone who can't do anything until January 2017, why is it not appropriate to point that rage at someone who could do something right now?

And the obedient response must be "Yessuh massa suh".