He's a Republican. They are a higher creed.

Especially because of the proximity of his vile remarks to MLK day. They should be expressing outrage.

the sites of our 236 Democrats to find out what their responses were?

Yes? No? If they don't all deliver them personally to us, so we don't have to put ourselves out in any way, is that a tree falling in the forest kind of thing for you?

I certainly didn't mean to imply that they should put themselves out just because that's what they are elected to do. Goodness gracious me.

with the exception of MSNBC. If they're on other networks, they're often on with a Republican to offer a counterpoint.

If there is no media coverage of the Democrats being outraged, would anybody even know?

Except for those in a few mostly blue cities, just try to find information on local news sources about what your congressmen and state reps are saying and doing. Those who at least have an honest blogger to turn to are fortunate, because the vast majority of the time the only source for what pols are doing are their own sites.

If all the people who complain that their politicians aren't talking to them and are corrupt (how would they know?) paid even minimal attention, they'd be a huge market that local media would rush to cover.

As it is, what all but a handful of big names say is itself mostly like that tree falling soundlessly in the forest with so few listening.

that was a strong & vocal as the one that called for Franken's resignation. Is that asking too much of dem leadership?

at least to your own representatives?

Have to admire them for speaking out for the few who do notice each time, when even people who care, like you, usually have no idea what they're doing.

We're the choir here, on DU, in case you didn't know. If that's all democrats can do, is post something on their sites & FB pages & not get in the face of the major networks & make a big party stink about one of our senior legislators being called a liar by a couple of GOP punks, then this is exactly why we are in the place we are in. The number of times my non-political friends check their reps sites is 0 to 2 times a year.

would allocate the first one? And then what, when Dems want another event covered and the TV media say been-there-done-that?

Give me a break, CrispyQ.

Democratic representatives are speaking out. A lot. If you want to hear the messages of your representatives, get off your DU and listen.

Btw, you can go here, http://act.commoncause.org/site/PageServer?pagename=sunlight_advocacy_list_page, plug in your zip code and learn the names of your elected officials.

I had no idea! ~insert flip-the-bird smilie here

that getting them to support pukes because of racism is the means to robbing them blind with GOPee policies.

The racism, like the faux religiosity and gun nuttery, is another way to get idiots to vote against their economic self interest. It's the old divide-and-conquer tactic used by despots throughout history.

White Billionaire Supremacy.

It seems to work on the rubes.

I will not be sneered at as a "single issue voter." A politician's attitudes toward that single issue, the full range of medical care for women, tell me everything I need to know about the rest of their attitudes.

And so it is with race in the same context. It is not "identity politics" or a "litmus test of purity," it is about POC's very survival. I get that.

VERY good point.

Feminists, minorities, and gays - the right hates us all.

Sexism and bigotry are wrong, period and I'll say something about it too. Where I worked at, this issue had to be dealt w/ with immediately and was not tolerated at all (zero tolerance). People were wrote up for it.

as there are evil forces in power trying to oppress and to take away everything we have fought to achieve in our society.

It was not just SOME...it was MOST of them and it was not part of their decision, it was the primary motivation to accept a charlatan and con-man as the standard bearer for the Party of Lincoln. Silence IS consent in this case and those who still claim to be "republicans" and they MUST own their complicity and their motivations. They should be shamed by their own words and deeds.

Nothing profound...relative to the POS we have as potus, administration and congress. Yet for generations, survival of the brown race of americans has been priority in the war fought against those who would prefer genocide as an answer to white ameriKKKa`s minority population(s) and it has been the top priority. Now the white brethren of ameriKKKa who have ALWAYS had automatic, if they choose to take advantage, privilege and entitlement, have had AA and minority survival and equality as a priority, if their heart was in the right place.

Yet the prevalence of racism and bigotry still plaguing ameriKKKa and the large numbers who voted for turd-in-chief proves that equality and all inclusiveness is as it has been for generations an elusive ideal never attained except for the 'golden few' who have never given a damn about anything more than their skin color and the assumed superiority of that white skin pigment and those quisling tools the PTB can use to fool some of the people some of the time.

Racism will never end as long as many, many people put privilege and entitlements as their priority over the welfare of all being of the human race.

sensitive and aware of what's going on with the men in their lives than not: Survival, hammered into us through millennia of misogyny and oppression.

I don't mean in any way to detract from the plight of PoC. What I'm trying to do is merely point out that ALL oppression is of a piece, all is connected, all owes its source to patriarchy. We'll not overcome it without working together on the problem.

Wholeheartedly....a more egalitarian equality that I have always hoped has been a tenet of Democratic Party ideals to strive for in deference to all, right? 2018-20 GOTV

Yeah, I get it.

I dont have to deal with it but I get it.

You do? No way, there simply is not one single example of a POC being shot for jaywalking, NEVER.

http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/ferguson-police-name-michael-brown

'And the beat goes on'.. !sonny and cher
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As a man who grew up under forced racial segregation in the South, we had to keep aware of the rules to survive white racist oppression, it actually was a matter of survival.

Visiting family members in small-town Mississippi in the 1950's, we were told to never look white people in the eyes, or to speak unless spoken to, to step off the sidewalk when someone white walked by, and to NEVER-EVER give an admiring glance at white women.

For centuries black folks studied the ways of white folks, we HAD to as a means of TRYING to understand boundaries, white folks had no such interests nor any desire except to see black people in limiting racial stereotypical caricature ( NO ALL WHITE'S ), as a result, I believe that generally speaking, after having needed to students of white sensibilities for so long there is a chasm now but it's not something most people seem to be aware exists, for the reasons that it does exist.

So is sexism, so is homophobia, and classism too.

When the U.S. (or any country) goes to war one of the first orders of business is to dehumanize the "enemy." (Actually, that usually begins beforehand, but definitely has to continue and get ramped up.)

The reason is it's hard to kill other humans (for most of us). But a lot less difficult to kill people who are less-than-human AND a threat.

The corollary of that is that when individuals or groups get dehumanized, it invites their abuse and even death. It demands that they be treated less than, and that includes a wide, wide range of unpleasant eventualities from just being ignored or overlooked to laws being written that negatively affect or outright oppress, to violence against them.

That's one of the things that's so pernicious about pornography which is dehumanizing by definition. It INVITES further dehumanization and, as already discussed, worse. (I'm not interested in a discussion about pornography here, so just skip it.)

Institutionalized Sexism. Societal Sexism. Cultural Sexism. Global Sexism. Everyday Sexism.

Women too, have been not only put on the back burner, but actively attacked for too long.

We’re just starting to be heard, I think.

who didn't know who he was, he would be in danger for driving a car a cop didn't think he could afford to buy.

I get it. We must all unite in this fight because it affects all of us.