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Showing Original Post only (View all)Jill Stein reveals her true colors via her running mate:: WTF?!! [View all]
http://fusion.net/story/332652/jill-stein-ajamu-baraka-beyonce/?utm_campaign=ThisIsFusion&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=socialWould someone please define Stein's running mate..UGH!
So Bill Clinton is a rapist (LIE)
Bernie Sanders is a white supremacist (LIE)
Beyonce only sang all those words for BLM to capitalize on profits (LIE)
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From the link:
Jill Stein, the great hope of the Green Party, announced yesterday that shed selected Ajamu Baraka, a human rights activist, as her running mate for this years presidential election.
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While those outside of the far-left activist community might not be all that familiar with Barakas politics, for the past six years, the vice presidential hopeful has maintained a fairly active personal blog where hes written about race, international affairs, and current events. (Neither Barakas or Steins teams returned requests for comment.)
Each page of Barakas blog opens with a very appropriate bell hooks quote describing itself as a site of radical possibility, a space of resistance. Baraka resists and he does so radically on a number of topics, including:
On Muhammad Ali, Dylan Roof, Barack Obama, and Bill Clinton:
Baraka wrote.The announcement that Bill Clinton, the rapist and petty opportunist politician, had been chosen to deliver the eulogy at Alis funeral suggests that his family is heading down that same path. MORE..
On Bernie Sanders and his supporters:
Sanders campaign, Baraka wrote, was less concerned about actual political reform and more interested in a tacit commitment to Eurocentrism and normalized white supremacy.
Sanders supporters, Baraka explains, are basically just naive shills. MORE...
On Beyoncé, Formation, and black pop culture commentary:
I cannot for the life of me understand how Beyonces commodified caricature of black opposition was in any way progressive, Baraka said. I didnt see opposition; I saw the imagery and symbols of authentic black radicalism grotesquely transformed into a de-politicized spectacle by gyrating, light-skinned booty-short-clad sisters.
Now this is the type of candidate the people can get behind. MORE...
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Jill Stein reveals her true colors via her running mate:: WTF?!! [View all]
misterhighwasted
Aug 2016
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Saw a couple of his old articles in counterpunch earlier today. At a loss as to what Stein is
emulatorloo
Aug 2016
#7
Really! to call Sanders a white supremacist is like Trump going after the Khan family
misterhighwasted
Aug 2016
#9
those are conservative/reagan type dems, they wanted the conservative which they got
JI7
Aug 2016
#30
No New Hampshire deserves some blame. Nader got 3.9% in NH compared to 1.6% in Florida
RAFisher
Aug 2016
#26
How does this person go from offering Bernie Sanders the top of the ticket
SirBrockington
Aug 2016
#16
Stunning isn't it. Knife to the back because he aligned with Dems who know the meaning of
misterhighwasted
Aug 2016
#18
How do the most radical Bernie supporters go from a true statesman to a loser like Stein?
ProudToBeBlueInRhody
Aug 2016
#21
She was never serious about the offer to Sanders, it was a publicity stunt to attract Sanders
Chathamization
Aug 2016
#31
The Greens will never have a chance to be a maturing group, or a sane group, so long as Stein holds
MADem
Aug 2016
#43
Yesseree! This is the VP pick that most resembles Stein's vision for America!!
misterhighwasted
Aug 2016
#39