@DrBanneker I'm curious how you feel about where we are as IIRC you were someone who had a couple "Do we give Kamala a pass/Is she really black" threads? Not on no exposal sh!t but on some "was my perspective constructive/helpful as I watch what is coming over the horizon and how black people will be affected" type ish
Well, if you refer back to said threads I always stated up-front in the thread I am voting for KH (which I did) and I also said she was Black (I have friends that knew her back in Cali). My ancestry thread was made to firewall off all the BS discussions about her ancestry, including specious claims her father wasn't Black, into one thread so the 'real Black' narratives wouldn't pollute the other threads about the election. I never was a 'no vote, no tangibles' or 'third party' much less a MAGA poster.
My point, and I think it still stands, is that I believe the over the top euphoria and efforts to shield Kamala from criticism as well as memory hole her past were going to hurt her, not help her. This is the Internet Age where everything is out there and people's doubts and her past actions that alienated a lot of people (including Coli posters in the Bay Area) would stay out there. I thought if we didn't force her to be vocal on clarifying things and proving her past issues weren't going to trip her up as a candidate much of America, including many Blacks, would not believe in her and vote for her---and that turned out to be what happened.
She was objectively unpopular in opinion polls before becoming a candidate and I always got the threat of DJT, but I still think confronting those issues up front rather than the last minute hail mary throws her campaign and the Obamas tried was a fatal blow--especially for Black turnout.
Glad I left for the private sector
