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What a ride.

Just beautiful.

If Bernie is embraced by African-Americans he might win the Democratic Primaries and then the Presidency! We are all screwed!

Fact.

Because 60,000 less Wayne County voters say some people need a refresher course on what we/they are looking for in a politician.

60,000 Wayne County brothers and sisters who came out and voted in 2012 DIDN'T come out in 2016.

Yea, we were loved in 2016.

I have been up since 2AM.

The first one is tone. I apologize. I just get frustrated and say stupid things. <<< Not an excuse, more like an inexcusable fact.

The second is economic justice. You are right, it's not the answer. It is social justice, BUT it's the kind of social justice that doesn't play with the middle and therefore gets lost when the middle becomes our target.

Sorry again.

I am incredibly sad that so many members of the African American Group here were run off the board. What happened to them does not speak well of some at DU. That place is silent now. They were my friends.

Me thinks you are a pretty good guy.

Thanks.

I doubt I am that good of a guy. It's just that once and a while I look at something I wrote (usually not until after I have been called out on it, unfortunately) and have to remind myself not to be a mid-sixties year-old child.

I admire the generations which have come after me because I still see everything through the prism of being black and there are things where they can see nuances where I only see bright good/bad lines. It tends to make my opinions not just harsh, but rigid.

I know I look like I am a huge Sanders-wing supporter. I am not. What I really am is a person who sees our post-1992 "move to the middle" as not so much an abandonment of FDR through McGovern-style "liberalism," but as an abandonment my mentors in Newton and Cleaver (and their philosophical forerunners) and of even King, all of whom saw the intertwining of socialism and the systemic structures of racial oppression (a prime example being the criminal justice system).

For me (and excluding people who simultaneously take unequivocally strong and public stands against the structures of racial oppression), when I hear people attack socialism as either evil or naïve, or call for only incremental change in wealth distribution, what I hear is people willing to leave me in chains so that they can hold hands with white folks who are willing to come together on other issues (choice, environment, guns -- on all of which I would also stand with them) but are so privileged in their social vision that they will not admit that their success, their opportunity, their wealth, indeed their very culture, all rest upon the 60 trillion dollars white folks stole from us.

I and many of the people around me are more than willing to stand with pragmatists when it comes to issues like economic justice, but we expect them to publicly and unashamedly stand with us on criminal justice reform, the end of capital punishment, the taxpayer-funded restoration of our communities, and the end to a social safety net specifically designed to destroy our families through its parsimony, even if it offends suburbanites who might otherwise join us on weapons bans (just an example, I am behind them too).

Given the fact that I have never met a single person in my community who did not vote for an available Democrat (and remember, I am old) in any election, and the statistics bare that out, I think we as a community deserve something greater than silent partner status before anyone starts telling us which white person deserves our vote.

I know this all sounds really bad and like single issue thinking, but I can't get past it. I've just seen too much.

Once again, thanks for your post and for listening as I ramble on.

lacking on other boards. I'm not saying it's all gone -- I don't visit enough to know, but DU lost something special when it was disrupted.

I hope POC find the commitment within themselves to make the AA Board Great Again. The kind of silly, counterproductive squabbling we see here was virtually unknown.

since he only got 11% of the Black vote in Mississippi.

Rushing in to whitesplain to Chokwe Lumumba and the people of Jackson Mississippi who voted for him which political figures are on their side and which isn't.

Thank God their water system wasn't poisoned or they would have been forgotten by now.

This isn't unique.

Published 3:35 p.m. CT March 30, 2018

High demand to see U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders join Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba in Jackson next week has forced the city to find a more accommodating venue.

Sanders and the mayor will be commemorating the 50th anniversary of the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr at an event titled "Examining Economic Justice 50 Years Later."

The Wednesday event will now be held at Thalia Mara Hall at 255 E. Pascagoula St. in downtown Jackson, instead of the Alamo Theater in the city's Farish Street District.

https://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/local/2018/03/30/demand-forces-city-change-venue-bernie-sanders-mayor-lumumba-town-hall/474303002/