(September 28, 2017 at 5:49 pm)FFaith Wrote:Quote:We still have a problem, but only one party and one class is perpetuating it.
lol good one. If you think what the Dems are doing is enough, the problem will never get fixed (and let's not forget that Colin Kaepernick started out his protest by specifically slamming Hillary). Bill Clinton signed legislation that led to the mass incarceration of blacks. Real black leaders like Michael Eric Dyson, Cornell West and Tavis Smiley shit on Obama by calling him a Republican in blackface who didn't want to help the black community and who's 8 years in office only put blacks in a worse place than before, but I guess Barack still has the admiration of... rappers/ singers like Jay Z and Beyonce, and clowns like Al Sharpton.
LBJ "I'll have those niggers voting Democratic for 200 years."
You are still not getting it. I am not denying that happened one bit.
When dems lost to Reagan, and the unions got busted, instead of fighting back, our politicians, long before Bill was president, our state and congress politicians stupidly tried to compete with the GOP instead of fighting back. You cannot make this about 1 politician, this is about political competition over long periods. The pull to the right started in the 1960s in reaction to desegregation, what the right saw as anti patriotic protest of Nam, an "hippies". The GOP and Nixon's southern strategy lead to Reagan, and we've been trying to compete with that party ever since.
It isn't about one politician, it is about our entire party being stupid trying to be like them to prove we can compete. We have to stop letting the GOP control the narrative.