as black as you claim to be.
So why are you giving up on your people? Because some of us realize it's not about party supremacy, its not about what part of the country you come from. racism and WHITE supremacy is rampant in every part of the US of A.
DO I need to explain to you I'm from the west coast. Sure we don't hear people running around on the regular yelling igger this or that like perhaps someone in the south/Midwest. But yet and still, brush that look just like me are getting harassed by cops every day, we' ve been getting shot up by them or jumped by them for nothing for decades. You do realize whites didn't want us hear to begin with if you go back far enough into the history of California. If you pay good enough attention you will realize we have hick towns within California all up and down the state. they look and act just like those people in the Midwest and the south. You do realize their were a ton of slaves brought to the north east right?
The point i'm making is, don't let a smooth taste fool you. Classic Southern racist, or classic northern racist, or unclassic new era racist is all the same at the end of the day.
Lol at saying "stay safe" now that trump is the president. How many of us got shot up and no one went to jail during Obamas last 4 years? And those are the ones that made the news, those are the ones that were caught on tape. how many?
we had a half black pres, a black first lady, a black AG. and yet we were still being snuffed out by crooked cops/mostly white cops. I mean wanna be white zimmeran aka white latino kicked it off. how much time did he serve? ZILCH, ZERO. The feds looked into that one too. And yet that man still walks around free as a bird. While racists were funding his defense.
It's bigger than trump or his next AG appointment or his next Judge appointment.
I'm not disagreeing with you in saying dude is some out and out racist. He probably is. but so are the Clintons. we saw this the moment Hillary went up against Obama and Obama was gaining traction. all that "first black president" nonsense that bill got from black people went out the window when the black guy(half I may add) was beating his wife in the polls leading to the election. but some of yall really thought yall should vote for her cause she did a dance on ellen.
I need for my people to wake up and stop falling asleep. lets just realize this simple thing. MOST WHITE PEOPLE ARE RACIST and are about RACISM WHITE SUPREMACY. sure you may know a good one or two. but that's about it. you may know a lot that wont physically harm you or wont try to vote for racist things to be anti black. but ask yourself how many white people you know are running to the streets and to their politicians on your behalf? How many? Blacks can't stop racism. Only whites can stop the nonsense they started and continue to perpetuate. Yet how often do you see the same amt of whites that out number blacks in the US percentage wise protest before we even hit the streets when innocent black lives are taken on some racist nonsense? how many whites?
Liberal or not. how many?
How many so called liberal whites hire black people since they know we have been discriminated against from birth til adulthood and so have our ancestors? How many?
Bill Clinton put more of us in jail than bush jr.
Just think about that for a moment.
Your favorite so called "first black president" Mr Clinton. treated more of you to a thing called new era slavery. Than the most hated repub president of our time.
Silly black folks. Time to wake up. It aint about reds and blues. it's about black and white. always has been, and the way it's looking always will be.
dude i understand your cynicism, but you and many others that think like you are only thinking surface deep in my opinion. that's not meant to be a diss.
first off things are not perfect and never will be. obama isn't our savior and that expectation is sorely misplaced. the same goes for hillary, i never had high expectations for her but i was confident she would not as bad as trump and i still feel that way. bernie was my sentimental favorite, but i figured what happened would happen. politics is a dirty game, but you can't do anything if you're on the sidelines. we can't settle for being on the sidelines under the premise nothing we do will matter. we also have to accept we can have more than one iron in the fire, meaning we can participate politically while also pushing for our own group objectives and progress away from politics.
a few points in regards to your comments...
several police depts have been investigated and forced to make changes as a result of unconstitutional racial profiling and other breaches of power because obama made the doj investigate. several police officers have been convicted of excessive force, abuse of power and murder because of pressure from the administration. personally i think that momentum would have been maintained under clinton and i think the pendulum will swing back to things being left uninvestigated and unaddressed by trump. republicans are notorious for that.
the comments about black people being locked up by clintons deserve more nuance. yes they passed laws that significantly impacted minorities. what put our communities in those drug infested high crime situations were fukkked up policies, neglect, and a racist strategy at the national and local levels. the reagan era really messed things up and it wasn't by mistake imo. a lot of minorities were also begging for something to be done. i remember my aunt and uncle in brooklyn saying these tough laws were needed because crime was so rampant. shortsighted maybe but crack and guns being pumped into our neighborhoods by the feds during reagan/bush years really put a hurt on black communities.
politics do matter. people and policy does matter. they want us to believe it doesn't so we don't participate and history can repeat itself. we don't have to depend solely on politics, but like i said we do need to have an iron in that fire while we make other moves. otherwise people like those trump are looking to appoint will make things worse for us, in my opinion. and this whole idea of letting it get worse so we can wake up and make things better is a backwards train of thought. it's not about white acceptance it's about us using and even manipulating the system. not giving up and rolling over. there won't be any progress and things won't change if we keep that surface level mindset that there is no difference when it comes to representation.