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In reply to the discussion: Hilarious, "White People Whitesplain Whitesplaining" [View all]Chitown Kev
(2,197 posts)18. Perfect way to begin the day!
and don't get me started on all of these comments about how conservative the black community is....they need to go and read their boy Glen Ford OVER AT bar.
With Bernie Sanders making few inroads with the Black vote, corporate pundits have begun to describe both African Americans and Latinos as traditional and more conservative sectors of the Democratic Party a ridiculous conclusion that cedes progressive politics to white left-liberals. (Publications like The Nation also believe in this fantasy.) Back in 2005, the directors of the Bay Area Center for Voting Research operated under the assumption that white liberal bastions like San Francisco, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Ann Arbor, Michigan, were the most progressive cities in the nation. They were shocked when the centers own survey revealed:
The list of Americas most liberal cities reads like a whos who of prominent African American communities. Gary, Washington D.C., Newark, Flint, Cleveland, Baltimore, Philadelphia, and Birmingham have long had prominent black populations. While most black voters have consistently supported Democrats since the 1960s, it is the white liberals that have slowly withered away over the decades, leaving African Americans as the sole standard bearers for the left.... The great political divide in America today is not red vs. blue, north vs. south, coastal vs. interior, or even rich vs. poorit is now clearly black vs. white.
The same Bay Area researchers did another survey of where the Left actually lives, in late 2013, with similar results. Of the top 20 Most Liberal cities of 100,000 population or more cited, 8 had Black majorities (Detroit, MI, Gary, IN, Newark, NJ, Flint, MI, Cleveland, OH, Baltimore, MD, Birmingham, AL, and St. Louis, MO); 8 were majority Black and Latino (Washington, DC, Oakland, CA, Inglewood, CA, Hartford, CT, Paterson, NJ, New Haven, CT, Chicago, IL, Philadelphia, PA), and only 4 were majority white (Berkeley, CA, Cambridge, MA, San Francisco, CA, and Seattle, WA).
http://blackagendareport.com/blacks_wont_free_themselves_at_ballot_box_in_2016
Now, do these whiter than white folks want to explain THAT!
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I found it strange that you Americans get upset when your friend or friends "Back you up".
BlueJazz
Nov 2015
#28
Why did the lady take offense (at the start of the film) when her friend came to her defense?
BlueJazz
Nov 2015
#38
Oh..I DO respect that point of view. Don't take my questions as not wanting to understand.
BlueJazz
Nov 2015
#42
I suppose my understanding or misunderstanding of the first scene is this: The lady was empathetic..
BlueJazz
Nov 2015
#40
Naw...just different. I'll "get it" one day. My Dad was a anthropologist. I learned early on...
BlueJazz
Nov 2015
#57
We forget what you have so plainly but succinctly point out, we are all the same.
randys1
Nov 2015
#58