2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Bernie Supporters - Please read my post [View all]bravenak
(34,648 posts)But there are a few who can be reached and see the pretzels that others twist themselves into to deny the truth. It helps them see how bad it looks and helps them take their own personal inventory and decide from there whether to be ignorant and continue harming or to create positive change. One by one they can tell a friend. They can pass this around from place to place and discuss it.
Maybe it won't help in time for Bernie, but it will help the next progressive candate avoid having serious blind spots; the same ones that we have repeatedly pointed out. Once they realize that our voices just grow LOUDER when they try to shut us down or silence us, they will realize that this shit must be solved BEFORE they get a damn thing on their agenda. Our lives first, then their progressive agenda. Without my life or a decent quality of life, I will not be ABLE to give a fuck about their income inequality; as a black woman, I will never get my full share, or be secure in the knowldge that my kids are safe in my own nation, a nation that my family has lived in since the 1700's. A nation built on the bones and blood of my ancestors. My slave ancestors came here in chains over a hundred years before my white ancestors came here for the American Dream that was denied to my Black ones. I am not taking another generation of this bullshit criminalizing and animalizing of my people. If I have to fucking write a hundred books and Cornell West myself in front of every damn TV camera in the entire continent and rage against this deadly, racist, evil, ignorant land of broken dreams and broken promises, I'll fucking do it. I will SHAME them all. And woe unto the oppresor when I do. They shall feel my wrath. Burn the whole damn place to the ground rather than allow my children to become the next Sandra Bland; my beautiful daughters should not suffer so. I will not stand for it. No more!! This ends now!!