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I think one of the ways the Republican Party demonstrates how thoroughly it is the party of rampant white supremacy is looking at the African Americans it chooses to embrace and highlight as "proof" they are not racist. They don't amplify Sen. Tim Scott much, do they?
Sure, Sen. Tim Scott is nobody I could support. He is a doctrinaire conservative Republican whose only heterodoxy is on racism, refusing to vote for particularly racist confirmations. So why don't the Republicans love him like Herrman Cain?
senate.ontheissues.org/Senate/Tim_Sco…
Black Republicans the GOP loves: Clarence Thomas, Herman Cain, Ben Carson, David Clarke, Candace Owens, Allen West, Ken Blackwell, Diamond & Silk

They love the buffoons, the grifters, the ones who reinforce their stereotypes
Black Republicans they don't love: Tim Scott, Condoleezza Rice, Colin Powell

Black competence and intellect terrify them so much they don't really love those who are not buffoons.
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I am disturbed @BuzzFeedNews decided to give a platform to the homophobic and anti-Semitic hatemongers who attacked Chelsea Clinton where they repeated their ill-informed lies about Clinton and Ilhan Omar. Omar and Clinton have come together, but they don't care enough to check
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I think half the trouble with the Sanders left is they don't know the difference between an issue and a problem.
Consider a problem the Sanders left doesn't care about. Racism is a problem because it's something we cannot solve by passing legislation, in fact, there is no readily available solution, no fix we can see other than "don't be racist" which puts the focus on individual not system
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3) Accurate census that counts prisoners in their communities, not in prison locations
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"We have got to look at candidates, you know, not by the color of their skin, not by their sexual orientation or their gender and not by their age," Sanders said. Well fuck that shit, @BernieSanders You have not learned anything in your long, long, long, long, long, long career.
"I mean, I think we have got to try to move us toward a non-discriminatory society which looks at people based on their abilities, based on what they stand for." is not an argument for a white man trying to run for a job held only by white men. This is white supremacy
When your demographic has been the only one to have that position, going all see no color is see no racism. This is appealing to white grievance and fear of anyone other than straight, white men. @BernieSanders is just the Trump of the left, white grievance populism
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