By all means I’m a Black Texas Democrat so I could literally write the book on national D neglect of not only Texas Democrats but Democrats in EVERY “former” Confederacy, current Jim Crow, “red”/purple state. We don’t take our ball and go home, we don’t boo louder than we #VOTE.
No, this is the thing. If a Black woman descendant of Jim Crow survivors who’s well steeped in the community organizing tricks of the trade that have been passed down since slavery to the most reliable Democratic voting bloc in American history isn’t apathetic, why are y’all?
Not only that, but you don’t even have to be Black in the South to understand the 🆘 and call to action b/c @BetoORourke is out here from dusk to dawn trying to save this godforsaken state from the GOP with almost no help from the White voting majority, alt left or the DNC. 🦾🌊
Ask any diehard Beto supporter (like myself) & they’ll tell you the same. The man got NO love from the allegedly progressive left in the ‘20 primary b/c they were STILL too busy calling us “low info” Confederacy voters. We were/are told that “red” state resistance was/is futile.
Matter of fact we’re STILL told that we don’t stand a snowball’s chance in hell & no matter how many times I’ve/we’ve told Y’ALL that your pessimism & apathy are the number 1 & 2 reasons White TX voters (specifically) abide GOP inevitability in this state, Y’ALL KEEP DOING IT.
And guess what else? When you keep catalyzing self-fulfilling prophecies of chronic GOP fucktatorships that last for 26 YEARS & counting, you bake in GOP inevitability to the extent that the DNC diverts resources to greener pastures *elsewhere*. Then the VRA gets dismantled… 😒
But then y’all still have the nerve & unmitigated fucking GALL to spew your bullshit pie in the sky idealism with no real coalition, votes, legislation or progress to back it up when you literally owe the slim Senate D majority & TWO STELLAR SENATORS from GA to BLACK WOMEN. Bye.
So what y’all are basically saying is the reason you won’t reliably join hands in solidarity with Black voters to pragmatically elect Democrats & safeguard our democracy & civil/human rights from the Klan/GOP every single election is b/c y’all think WE have Stockholm Syndrome? 🙃
The issue above all else is y’all continue to conflate the perils of vulture capitalism with the perils of racism/sexism and White supremacy as a social construct that subjugates people based on their cultural identity *regardless* of their income level/tax bracket. You PERSIST.
Ponder the reality that when GOP constituencies splinter into factions, whether it be QAnon, the teabaggers or the Freedom Caucus, ultimately they ALL STILL VOTE GOP ON ELECTION DAY, yet the *mostly White*, privileged far left pretends it wants to join the DEM tent then DOESN’T.
Also take note that even though plenty of traditional R voters have been too ashamed to call themselves Rs since GWB, they STILL RELIABLY VOTE GOP. They don’t do dumb ass 3rd party shit that risks their stranglehold on White POWER. The alt left *aids/abets* them by rejecting Ds.
IOW folk are BIG MAD b/c they (and Russia/Trump/the GOP & alt left Berner brigade) want us to do dumb ass shit with our votes (like they do) but we REFUSE b/c fascism ain’t fun & games for US. Go build your Aryan utopia in Moscow, we’ll save the democracy WE BUILT without Y’ALL.
If there’s anything this never-ending conversation illustrates in living color, it’s that *some folk* vote like they’re at Baskin Robbins or Burger King while marginalized folk vote like we’re in the government cheese line; there aren’t 32 flavors and we don’t always get OUR way.
Better yet, since we’re reliving the same pathology (and it’s been so long that the original links no longer work), I’m gonna repost all the #InstabilityInChief essays I wrote @dailykos for posterity’s sake…
'He tells it like it is:' The privileged politics of personal insult | via @docrocktex26 dailykos.com/stories/2016/1…
Wake me when the folk who are feigning shock, awe and poutrage about Trump doing all the heinous shit he said he was gonna do direct their complaints to the MSM that propagandized them blind (b/c they wanted to be) and is still enabling/sugarcoating fascism/White supremacy.
I mean this in all sincerity b/c I have yet to see a concerted, large scale effort to boycott or even regulate the legacy media outlets that paved the way for social media outlets to finish off the bamboozlement of the masses they started *centuries* ago. Where’s the revolution?
I repeat, “America incentivizes brainwashing of the White community,” so there’s no amount of scattering to new social media apps that’s gonna stop the newspapers or Big 3 TV from peddling bullshit that trickles down. Speak with your WALLETS and starve White supremacy of GREEN.
Let me address this now (again) b/c folk keep asking: NO I’M STILL NOT opening an account on any other social media platform. Y’all are asking this of a Black, native Texan woman whose entire family tree is Black native Texan. *I don’t flee for the Confederacy’s benefit.*
Y’all can feel free to do what sits right in your spirit but I’m not scared of a damn tweet. I walk around IRL as a Black woman knowing full well that my gracefully unbothered existence in spaces racists don’t want me in is an act of civil disobedience, protest & radicalism.
Not only that but what point is even being proven right now other than a real time illustration of how easy and uncomplicated it was (still is) for certain folk to flee to bluer, “safer” territory for the Confederacy’s benefit while the space they fled becomes more Confederate?
1 more blast from the past since folk still can’t do math or handle the truth. Ds are still contending with #WeakAssUnreliableAllies who “swing” in & out of the ⛺️ on a whim based on White/White adjacent grievance every 2-4 yrs and make maintaining a winning coalition impossible.
Matter of fact, miss me with the feigned confusion altogether b/c it’s BEEN plain as fucking day that culture wars are all the GOP has left and that WW (specifically) were/are susceptible to said wars to the extent that their bigotry is superseding their woman/motherhood.
After years of xenophobic klan sentiment on the GOP campaign trail, the El Paso shooter drove ~10 hrs to gun down Hispanic Texans on White supremacy/nationalism’s behalf. The anti-Haitian rhetoric propagated by Trump/Vance/MAGA isn’t just a hateful lie, it’s stochastic terrorism.
Nobody gets to pretend the writing hasn’t been on the wall since Birtherism and Trump’s promise to build a wall but make Mexico pay for it. They tell us to “remember the Alamo” but expect us to forget El Paso, Buffalo, Pittsburgh (Tree of Life) and the Atlanta spa shootings.
I don’t wanna hear shit else about Trump or the GOP “toning down their rhetoric” when the volume of the klan rally’s been at 💯 since 9/11 which is technically only a slight uptick from what they’ve been doing to Indigenous, Black and Brown people on American soil for CENTURIES.