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In reply to the discussion: Black Farmer Calls Out Liberal Racism In Powerful Facebook Message [View all]LovingA2andMI
(7,006 posts)His experiences which many African-Americans have dealt with on a daily, weekly or monthly basis with those who might call themselves Progressive.
Meanwhile, we vote for Democrats in the majority for the one chance in a President Barack Obama will come once in a lifetime to make OUR LIVES in AMERICA (Yes, the Words OUR LIVES was used on purpose) a little easier for a time period, knowing HE is the FIRST President (and might be the last) that truly UNDERSTANDS our complex experience in America because he has walked in OUR moccasins. We hold FLOTUS Michelle Obama high because we know she gets the EXPERIENCE (Will Not Apologize If The Word EXPERIENCE Gets Under One's Skin -- Because It Is What It Is).
We hope that another Democratic President will show empathy because that is all we can ask for if they are not African-American too, into our experience instead of dismissing it and believing our vote in guaranteed because they are "all we have" as the "other side" is unbearable.
Until you, who are likely are a Caucasian American - have actually walked a mile in the complex moccasins of being African-American in America -- you and others dismissing the African-American dynamic over and over again in this thread is downright, insulting on its face.