Democratic Primaries
In reply to the discussion: The Erasure of Black Women Continues: Let's talk about Misogynoir [View all]radius777
(3,921 posts)They memed her as 'Cop-mala' and smeared her record, and worked to turn minorities against her.
In the white left's minds she was the black Hillary and a similar playbook was used against her. Joy Reid had an excellent segment on this on her Sunday show, that also highlighted the Russian role in this.
Don't worry, PoC/women/etc are watching, karma is a B. You take out one of our rising stars - the civil rights movement doesn't sleep and doesn't forget.
As Marcus Johnson described in his excellent piece there is a growing rift in the party, where the white left is attempting to erase white supremacy (which is not a class issue, but a human rights issue) as the root of oppression, and redefine it in race-neutral class struggle terms. Basically they pine for the old FDR/Dixiecrat party that turned a blind eye to racism, sexism etc while the white man got a New Deal.
If you look at social media, and even in the comment section of that article, the white left has this misconception that once their redefinition of the party is complete they will still hold onto the Obama coalition because 'who else are they going to vote for?'. This reasoning is deeply flawed, as turnout and voter enthusiasm is always an issue.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden