To put it bluntly: If Harris was considered too Black to be our first Black female president, then, welp! I suppose there goes that dream. She looked the part, in pantsuits and pearls (a signature AKA sorority accessory). She acted the part: Even in college, she was known as C3, for being calm, cool, and collected. She refused to make her identity as a Black, South Asian American central to the campaign, after seeing what running on identity had done for Clinton just eight years earlier. And while maintaining an extremely controlled image, Harris was also wildly qualified, having served as a vice president, U.S. senator, and attorney general of California.
And if securing the Black vote and Black capital was the only thing Harris needed for this campaign, she would have achieved it in a business day. Within 24 hours of her endorsement as the Democratic presidential candidate, Black women fundraised an unprecedented number of campaign dollars and broke Zoom capacity records and began to push huge get-out-the-vote efforts. Much of this was led by sorority and fraternity members of the Divine Nine, and to call the Divine Nine “organized” is an understatement. Organizing is not only what they are best at, it is what they trade in.
That's an opinion. I'm not disagreeing with it, I'm not signing off on it. I'm sharing it.
I think everyone should hear it -- rather they agree with it or not. Throughout the campaign, media coverage ignored Black women.
Here, I am trying to share as many Black women as possible. Not everyone thinks the same thing.
Danielle has serious concerns about the integrity of the vote. Honestly, if she wasn't a Black woman, I wouldn't have shared her video. I don't know that she's wrong, I don't know that she's right. But she has that concern, I saw it, it went up here.
We're all trying to figure it out. But only certain people -- White men with grievances mainly -- are the ones being amplified.
Julia Conley has a bad report on COMMON DREAMS. Bad?
Roland S. Martin has already noted the racist overtones of Bernie's remarks -- remarks Conley is repeating. She needs to enlarge her frame of reference. As do most Bernie supporters. He's never been able to communicate well with Black voters. He's always struggled. And it's because he comes off racist. I'm real sorry that you refuse to leave your own shoes and put yourself in another person's shoes -- a Black person's shoes -- for just one minute to grasp how insulting Bernie is. This is not a new development. There has always been -- dating back to his days in the House -- a split over how White Democrats and Black Democrats see Bernie. Again, Roland S. Martin rightly demolished Bernie's nonsense and did so last week.
With racism playing such a huge part in the coverage of this campaign, I think everyone would benefit from stop rushing to their Progressive gods long enough to weigh what's being said and how it comes off.
It's that entitlement that allows MAGA nut Michael Flynn to threaten Kamala Harris and Barack Obama. Read David McAfee's RAW STORY report.
Ava and my "Media: White supremacy won the 2024 election (Ava and C.I.)" went up. It doesn't cover half of what we wanted to cover. But we finished it and posted it because my attitude currently is, we've all earned a break. We're all shattered over the election. The racism -- coming from our own side, not just MAGA -- was and remains outrageous.
And you've got people pretending like it's not even there.
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