A Child of Newly Arrived Italian Immigrants Wages War on #CriticalRaceTheory
"#Rufo became convinced that poverty was not something that could be alleviated with a policy lever but was deeply embedded in “social, familial, even psychological” dynamics, and his politics ...
... that poverty was not something that could be alleviated with a policy lever but was deeply embedded in “social, familial, even psychological” dynamics, and his politics became more explicitly conservative. "
Dude always bringing up Asians (his wife is Asian) to attack Black people.
These are the facts: The Republican party will never win a majority of minorities (Blacks, Asians, Jews, Muslims, Arabs) because their interest groups (largely white) need a safe-space, and they don't
... like to share their safe space with identities that don't conform to their Lily White narrative of reality.
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"Personally, I have no desire for white association except where I am sought and the pleasure is mutual. That feeling grows out of my own self-respect. I see no glory to myself in the contact unless there is something more than the accident of race."
Thanks a million for your kind letter. I am always proud to have a word of praise from you because your friendship means a great deal to me. It means so much to me because I have never known you to make an insincere move, neither for personal gain, nor for malice
"Even as Biden held on to a majority of Hispanic voters in 2020, Trump made gains among this group overall. There was a wide educational divide among Hispanic voters: Trump did better with those without a college degree than college-educated Hispanic (41% vs 30%)."
Poorly, educated, Hispanics propping up an anti-black, White Nationalist President, is something black progressive egalitarians will have to think seriously about ....
Black Conservatism? Pues, no mucho (Not so much).
Not everyday, not every week...
"Every HOUR sees the black man elbowed out of employment by some newly arrived emigrant whose hunger and whose COLOR are thought to give him a better title to the place."
They implied something that's not true -!The Claim: Due to #CriticalRaceTheory, many African-American parents were fleeing public schools to attend charter schools.
" Therefore, the real crisis isn’t medical — *it is behavioral*. The real crisis is widespread lawlessness and criminality concentrated in a political party wrapping itself in “freedom” and the American flag."
“In a sort of ghastly simplicity we remove the organ and demand the function. We make men without chests and expect virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honour and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.”
Secretary of State Colin Powell's Howard University Commencement Address
Momma Africa is so proud of her baby.
Go to the ancestors, Colin.
Let Ogun see what a warrior you were
Let them marvel at you ..
Orunmila, Obatala, Oya, Shango, Yemaya -- all ready to embrace you with arms wide open.
“I’ve had these experiences with the police in the past that, if I get pulled over, no one’s going to care if I’m half #Indian. I don’t get to benefit from the model-minority myth.”
“Whenever I was successful, it was never on my own merit. It was sort of always like, ‘Oh, but like, Asian kids are smart,’” she said. “But whenever I was actively challenging something, or making a case, ..
... or advocating on behalf of other students and communities, that was when I was treated like a Black person.”