DU is brimming with "outrage" over how HRC treats blacks, with thread after thread telling [View all]

[EffieBlack]

us how insensitive, how bigoted, how racist, and how unworthy she is to have the support of black voters. Given how many posts "wonder" and often outright demand that we explain why black voters would even CONSIDER voting for her given how horribly she supposedly treats minorities, it is clear that these posts are not intended to illuminate but are instead designed to turn black voters away from her. Although they primarily deal with actions, comments and votes from years and sometimes decades ago, these threads have increased multifold in just the past few days since Hillary won the Nevada caucus and it's looking like black voters are going to help Hillary to a big victory in South Carolina.

But I think these "concerns" would be better received and possibly more effective if they came from people who had evidenced similar concern about how we're viewed and treated by anyone other than Hillary and anytime before it appeared that the black vote would make such a big difference. However, many of the people who are SO upset about Hillary's comments are the most dismissive and insulting and offensive toward black DUers on this board and show absolutely no concern for or interest in our opinions, perspectives or feelings. And when we express outrage or consternation about something that WE think is offensive or racist, these people are more likely than not to bat away our concerns and even scold and mock us for being overly sensitive.

In light of that, it's no wonder that many of us aren't impressed with their sudden conversion into ultra-sensitive guardians of our sensibilities and are not responding favorably to their demands that we abandon Hillary Clinton because THEY have decided that our support for her is not in our best interests.

I'll consider taking seriously their outrage about Hillary's approach to race once they demonstrate that they give a sh#t about racism in any context other than to exploit it for their own narrow political ends.