2016 Postmortem
Showing Original Post only (View all)My two cents on the Elijah Cummings thing [View all]
Look...
For decades on end, black folks have had to listen to white folks explain to us what the issues are and what our issues are (for the benefit of white folks of course).
For the most part, we listened to what white folks had to say and if we dissented...well, we kept a lot of that dissent to ourselves, our media (black newspapers and radio stations); critiques most white people did not listen to or think was worth the time.
Now POC are in elected office at the highest levels and they are deserving of the same respect that POC(for the most part) have always given to white speakers...
So all that black folks are really saying about the heckling of Elijah Cummings is to give us (and black politicians, generally) the same respect that we have almost always given white politicians.
After all, POC are now the base of the Democratic Party...you need us to win and...yes, we need you to win.
So yes, this type of disrespect hurts you as well as us...
Or you can always go over to the party that had all of 18 black delegates out of thousands.
Because the Democratic Party belongs to all of us and all of our concerns...
I did not see and will not look at the heckling of Elijah Cummings earlier today at the Democratic Convention....and from what I have heard about it, I find it preferable not to watch it at this point.