Prometheus 6

My Deep Thoughts on the Dem Primary

Obama has it tough because Americans are more racist than sexist. There are just more white women than blacks. At the same time, Hillary gets a bigger benefit in the form of backlash against sexist attacks on her (like this) because sexism can be overt, while racism must be coded.

Other hand, Hillary's got it tough because any attack on Obama can be interpreted as coded racism. She's got to knock the halo off his head in order to disrupt his appeal to black Christians, but putting surrogates out to talk about his drug use blew up in her face. She's got to play to her supposed strength on experience, so Bill went out and played attack dog and quickly found out how shallow black support for him was. Who cares where you have an office? Some people who usually talk sense are already saying they'd rather see a Republican win than Hillary.

Somewhere, Karl Rove cackles.

These people who usually talk sense...have they suddenly changed somehow, become virulent? Has their reasoning changed?

This collective burying of the Shaheen/Kerrey/Penn travesty, the decision, uniformly carried out by the media, the insistence on casting both parties as equally culpable or equally suffering (see above) is unacceptable to me. And it's not just Billary. What about our rejection of the CBCI Democratic Debate on Fox? Everyone everywhere was like, "Why are you rejecting it? Everyone should be able to face those Fox people down"...mere weeks after rejecting the Fox Democratic Debate in Nevada.

The Democratic Party is supposed to be the allies of Black folks. And they will let Black folks be political players, will honor agreements made with Black politicians. But it's still full of regular Americans, who downplay or disregard Black folks' reality in the name of unity. They expect Black people to ignore our own interests...to acknowledge only that unity that excludes us for the most part. And that will not change until the mainstream sees a reason to change.

Y'all need feedback.

I do not want to see a Republican president. It is more important to me that (editorial) you all see there is now repercussions to dismissing Black people as is the practice now. Since I've already said one election isn't going to flip the race dynamic in this country, and since demonstrating there are repercussions is a prerequisite to flipping the race dynamic, the presidency is not critical to me. Especially when, assuming Billary, there will be so little difference between the two candidates come November.

Basically, what looks to you like a lack of sense is actually action proceeding from a different motive than you expected.