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When John Lewis was standing up for human rights in the freedom struggle, Donald Trump was marching around a military academy pretending to be a brave solider, and was already a spoiled millionaire thanks to his daddy. Just a contrast for you to remember. America rewards cowards
Correction: WHITE America rewards cowards....
that's how we get Trump and Reagan as national heroes to a majority of white folks, but Lewis and other Civil Rights legends as footnotes...
It's why virtually no white folks (and surely not white conservatives) have read MLKs books (they just know one line from one speech and don't even understand that one), and why they couldn't identity CT Vivian, Diane Nash or Septima Clark if their lives depended on it
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Tim Wise
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Seriously here is how Bernie Stans waste time on Twitter... reporting people who dare criticize their savior...
Y’all still losing... it’s a lifetime trend with some people... keep coming: no one cares
Anyone who would report that tweet and try to get me punished for it—or who would defend those who did—is an idiot and the kind of pathetic authoritarian leftist who deserves to be ignored . You are why we can’t have nice things...
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1/ w/ the MLK holiday coming, I think we all know we will be treated to the utter misrepresentation of his views and vision, by people who have no real interest in carrying on his work. First, we'll have the right wingers who insist he would oppose affirmative action...
2/ bc of that whole "content of character" line...ignoring the context of the line, and the fact that King blatantly endorsed what we now call aff action at least 5 times, including in his book Why We Cant Wait, written the same year as the March where he delivered that line...
3/ Then we'll get the nice safe liberals who focus on his anti-segregation work and ethic of love, but ignore that he was condemning capitalism by the end of his life, and admitting we needed some kind of democratic socialism...
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bullshit...Bernie doesn't get intersectionality. He thinks class is prior to race and everything else. Real intersectional thinkers don't bash "identity politics" because those identities are part of intersectional thinking...
By all means, ask Kimberle Crenshaw (who developed the concept of intersectionality) what she thinks about Bernie's race analysis and intersectional thinking...I can ask her for you if that's easier...
Kim, like me, apparently believes Bernie has lots of strong points to recommend his candidacy. But that doesn't mean he can't do better on these intersections. They need work...god knows Joe's need a lot more, as do Pete's, and Warren's do too.
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