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Too bad we lost our chance at a non racist president,,,,

 

Holy fk

 

Darth siddeous

 

Hahaahahahahahahaha

 

The Only Problem in American Politics Is the Republican Party

I didn't even know it was chait

 

"Coates is not wrong when he implies that insofar as they are caught up in the social formation of “whiteness,” they are an intrinsically reactionary force. The relevant question is how to subdue this force.

Fortunately the answer is clear: the abolition of whiteness. This is not the same thing as the abolition of white people. In fact, it is impossible to abolish whiteness unless the people currently coded as white recognize their responsibility to participate in this project—in short, becoming “race traitors.”

Treason to the white race, in fact, is in the interest of the vast majority of people classified as white. This should not be taken to mean that the privileges granted to white people by white supremacy are not real—they are all too real, and many white people enthusiastically participate in white supremacy to preserve these privileges. However, for the white people who are not owners of capital, white privilege is a poisoned bait. As the black communist Harry Haywood wrote in his 1948 book Negro Liberation:

It is not accidental… that where the Negroes are most oppressed, the position of the whites is also most degraded. Facts unearthed and widely publicized… have thrown vivid light on the “paradise” of racial bigotry below the Mason-Dixon Line. They expose the staggering price of “white supremacy” in terms of health, living and cultural standards of the great masses of southern whites. They show “white supremacy”… to be synonymous with the most outrageous poverty and misery of the southern white people. They show that “keeping the Negro down” spells for the entire South the nation’s lowest wage and living standards. “White supremacy” means the nation’s greatest proportion of tenants and sharecroppers, its highest rate of child labor, its most degrading and widespread exploitation of women, its poorest health and housing record, its highest illiteracy and lowest proportion of students in high schools and colleges, its highest death and disease rates, its lowest level of union organization and its least democracy.

These words could be written again today with only the most minor modifications. And they explain why Mark Lilla and Ta-Nehisi Coates are ultimately mirror images of each other, in their failure to recognize that overcoming white supremacy is not an “identity” issue, one which is restricted to the interests of a particular racial group, but rather at the center of a universal program for emancipation."


Idylls of the Liberal: The American Dreams of Mark Lilla and Ta-Nehisi Coates

 

imagine being such a terrible person that you morally enrage a man who negligently crashed a car into a river, left a woman to die in it, and didn't tell the authorities about it til the next day. god bill is such a pos

 

So many never forgets today from people that were fine with nazis

 

never 4get. the anniversary

 

DA and mayoral primary is tomorrow.

In Brooklyn’s District Attorney Race, the Focus Isn’t on Prosecuting Crime

 

Holy shit, my district has a monster gentrifier, check this out folks

City Limits » Who’s Who in the Contested City Council Races

 

So... like my district candidates are awfullllll

One guy is a grassroots dumbo who's tough on crime and the other is a gentrifier mainstream centrist

Gonna put in an FU vote cause I think the latter will win

What can I do to reach out to organizations to try to find candidates to run there? It's not an awful place to run. It kind of bridges bad areas and religious ones.

 

its funny because the patriot act fundamentally changed who we are as a nation

 

Stealing your take for a tweet

 

Is 'The Handmaid’s Tale’ Coming True? Insiders Say the CIA Director Is Turning the Agency into a Center of Christian Dogma

 

Holy shit @ that statement at the end

 

I was at this little neighborhood "fall festival" over the weekend and this guy who was running for city council handed me his promo sheet. At the very top his #1 goal was to reverse the "misguided" decision to increase minimum wage to $15. I noped out right away

 

shoving the NLG rep is definitely going to end well for that guy