The Breakdown…

[Number23]

15. Skinner has made it abundantly clear that all of this is in our heads.

That alert stalking isn't real, everything is aweeeeesoooooomee!! (to quote the Lego Movie here) and that if AA members are getting hides for saying things like "Sanders supporter and idiot are not mutually exclusive" (or whatever 1SBM said verbatim) then we just need to watch our mouths and be good boys and girls and allow these good white folks to think for us the way they obviously feel that they should. Then "they" will like us and stop trying to run us off this web site.

Your analysis is interesting to me, particularly the bits where you mention that 1) bravenak's biggest crime to whoever wrote that letter was that she was a black woman who dared to question Bernie Sanders and his commitment and plans for certain issues and 2) that the only black voices that are welcome here are the ones that are in firm alignment with the (majority white) masses. Of course, this is not anything that anyone didn't already know but it still bears repeating, particularly when you consider that there are very, very few poc of color on DU and those of us who are non-committed, support other candidates or not quite ready for whatever reason to anoint Bernard Sanders the Patron Saint of Colored Folks seem to very clearly outnumber those who are.

So this is all a very clear attempt to lessen our voices and potency on this web site. Why anyone thinks that DU matters that much or would be worth 1/1000th this much trouble is simply beyond me. It is also simply beyond obvious that whoever wrote that letter was not black, doesn't give the first shit about black people, and considers us to be infants or imbeciles that need to be told what's good for us.