2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Bernie Supporters - Please read my post [View all]bravenak
(34,648 posts)I'm glad you see my point. I'm not asking for people to love him or love his policies. But just to realize that how you behave can be harmful, and to notice what effect it has on others. I bite my tongue all the time. I'm WAAAAAYYYY to the left of Obama. But as a black person he gives me that sense of psychological security I never had before. There will not be a Katrina on his watch. No Jim Crow. No selling us out just to please white people. Everyone else has done us wrong - reminds me of that song 'Greensleeves'. We love America. We want acceptance and the same quality of life as everyone else, and Obama does not see us as pawns or useful idiots like so many others seem to. White liberals let us down. And they rail at us telling us how horrible he is to us and how bad things are under his watch for us; how h has done NOTHING for civil rights. Talk down to us like rabid dogs.
I wish people would be aware of the differences in the way they speak to black people and white people. I notice a rush to try to 'Educate' us constantly. Like we are their children or less intelligent beings. It does not matter how well I write or how many books I read or how many words I know; I am seen as somehow unable to educate myself and learn on my own. I am not the only one who notices this behavior. I have never tested below a 140 on a IQ test but I constantly get referred to as 'uninformed', told to 'educate myself', that I am 'illogical'. It is so bizzare to see people who would never ever be able to actually outsmart me, see me as dumb, just because I'm black. It's like being a slave with a million masters.