I am tired tired tired of Democrats playing suck up , excuse me , with MAGA.
These people who schedule hate into every sentence don’t need to be cooed at , they need the truth.
And if it comes out in a direct way it’s not “ forward “ it’s adult education.
Black women have been saving Democrat s asses for quite some time .
Because they are smart and savvy about reality , they’ve lived it .
Reality can be damn hard but it’s not a surprise.
Over the past several years I’ve heard many democratic leaders be agonizingly careful on how they approach lunatics, fire breathing dragons and excuse me , it’s true, morons.
How can we be cowed by some of the worst explanations of attempted attacks on Americans , pretending it’s “for their own good “ while just grinding our faces in lies.
Everyone talks about the Democrats needing a plan . Yup , the plan should be to get some guts and distribute the truth that way. I love Jasmine Crocket , because she tells the truth without tripping over herself to “ make nice”.
Democrats needing a plan to get a spine and let people know they’ve got one.
Show it off.
If you offend someone , they’ll get over it . So should you.
Exactly! STOP asking for permission and just DO something!
I watched Andy Beshear on Jon Stewart - same routine - the consultancy catch phrases and then, his speaking from the heart. I thought at the time it sounded scripted & after hearing this clip from the View - obviously, it was.
Jasmine Crockett simply tells it like it is and should win that race. Sounds like the Dems are going for the safe (white?) vote. Didnt work in NYC - and I hope it doesnt in Maine.
Sure does sound like doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different ending.
On another note - finished watching Jon Stewart w/Beshear. Thanks to Jon, the interview got better as it went along - I had only watched first 10 minutes or so.
The thing is - there is no white (or black) knight thats magically going to show up and save the day. Obama, I think, was a one time thing and he could only do so much . Of course, trump proved that's not true, didnt he?
It takes more guts to be Non-violent than the dt&Co/maga Violence and Grift. And yes, what they do is all about violence - ripping everything from others that they can; wealth, rights, privileges, bodily autonomy, freedoms, the list is as disgusting as it is endless. Being Non-violent does not mean being a doormat, it means you say what you need, what you can do and what you expect, and what is unacceptable (and what is acceptable). You can be civil without being mean, you can demand without being pushy, and you can assert without being bossy. I think many people get confused there, thinking civil means giving way or giving in or that peace means being quiet or muted, agreeing to everything whether you like it or not. Nope. It does not mean that. Thanks for bringing this up. We need to hear it. More than this, we need to say and act it. Time to step up to the plate and play the game, without reservations.
There is no ladylike or gentlemanly way to reject tyranny, restore the rule of law and obtain justice for all.
It is necessary to name what’s happening, however uncomfortable. If Fascism, tyranny, lies, cruelty, Gestapo tactics, police misconduct, concentration camps and evil are what we see, we must use those words regardless of how uncomfortable it makes some people.
When our house is burning down, we don’t whisper fire, we shout, break down doors, get people to safety, call for help and get a hose.
Democrats need to stop letting Republicans define the conversation. They should go on the offensive and define the conversation themselves. The response to trickle down economics isn't to question it. The response is that billionaires are doing okay. They seem to be managing without additional tax cuts.
(Note: This article was not written with a Trump audience in mind. My mama taught me not to argue with CULTS).
Racial prejudice needs to STOP. Why? Because it works systematically to prevent people of color from
• achieving their full potential as human beings (and yeah, they ARE human beings).
• making their fullest contribution to society (check out what they have given sports and entertainment, two of the only areas where they are now welcomed with open arms).
• benefiting from the potential contributions of their people and weakening the community as a whole (multiculturalism and race-mixing works).
Furthermore, racism
• increases the present or eventual likelihood of retaliation by the victims of racist actions (can you say, “Summer of 2020?”).
• goes against many of the democratic ideals upon which the United States and other democracies were founded (but conveniently forgotten for the last 400 years).
People who live in multicultural, mixed-race cities realize people are the same, and they are far more willing to work together to achieve better outcomes in business and community. Yet, even in big cities, white people have a need to live in white neighborhoods. White people have a need to make sure everyone else knows they rule.
How can anyone call himself a human and also be a racist?
In most of the cities across the nation with populations over a million, Biden won. And what tipped the vote there are Black Americans. It’s time for the Democrats to give back! And I mean pay SERIOUS attention to what Black Americans want and need to succeed. No more committees. No more ten-year plans. Is white America worried KARMA will be a bitch?
Joe Biden’s campaign is hopeful that the state’s growing population of young, nonwhite voters will deliver this toss-up state to Democrats this year (NPR 2020 Election regarding PA).
As of 2014 Census estimates, Harris County had a population of 4,441,370 people. The racial and ethnic makeup of the county was 40.8% Hispanic or Latino. The population was 31.4% non-Hispanic white, 19.5% non-Hispanic black, 1.1% Native American, 7.0% Asian, 0.1% Pacific Islander. So, that’s over 50% NON-WHITE. Here’s the Harris Country breakdown:
Raise your hand if you think these people put Biden in the position to win Harris Co.
When I left my sister’s house Tuesday night in utter disbelief, Trump was winning in Michigan! Then I re-listened to what Bernie had said on Fallon a week earlier:
Then, during the night, Detroit’s votes started to pour in, and guess what?
Here’s another interesting tidbit: When asked to decide which issue should be a top priority if Biden gets elected, only 6% of respondents said “racism,” but when asked how serious a problem racism is in policing, they had this to say:
I might be wrong here, but it seems that democrats are willing to admit racism exists but not take much action to DO ANYTHING about it! And this is bullshit. I’ve heard say that “The Civil Rights Act insured black people would vote for the Democrat forevermore.” I’ve also heard, “Black people don’t vote,” as if they OWE it to Democrats for passing the Civil Rights Act in 1964 (read Isabel Wilkerson’s Caste or Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow, if you wanna see how much good that did).
Interesting that when it mattered the most (a week ago), the Black community tipped it for getting rid of Trump. And I say that because they (like me) didn’t vote for Biden; they voted to get rid of Trump. As many times as people screwed by the DNC have said, “No more holding my nose,” we did it to get rid of the biggest Con since these guys, https://www.casino.org/blog/top-10-conmen/ (I fully expect Trump to be added to this as soon as the numbers come out).
If the DNC and people like Biden interpret this election any other way, they are fools. Despite the war on education, people in this country have common sense which tells them, “Fool me once . . .” And many of us know that “we get to choose, only after the two-party machines pick the millionaires for us to decide between.
We have to get real and start talking about Racism and Bigotry. NOW.
It would be grossly unfair and inaccurate to say that every one of Trump’s supporters have prejudice against ethnic and religious minorities, but it would be equally inaccurate to say that few do. The Republican party, going at least as far back as Richard Nixon’s “southern strategy,” has historically used tactics that appealed to bigotry, such as lacing speeches with “dog whistles,” coded racial appeals that carefully manipulate hostility toward nonwhites.
While the dog whistles of the past were subtler, Trump’s signaling is sometimes shockingly direct. There’s no denying that he routinely appeals to racist and bigoted supporters when he calls Muslims “dangerous” and Mexican immigrants “rapists” and “murderers,” often in a blanketed fashion. Perhaps unsurprisingly, a recent study has shown that support for Trump is correlated with a standard scale of modern racism (Pettigrew, https://jspp.psychopen.eu/article/view/750) .
To understand this one a little better, we must go back to the gubernatorial race in that state, where Stacey lost to the same guy, Brian Kemp, Georgia’s secretary of state, who presided over the very election in which he ran against Abrams, marred by charges of voter fraud (cough, cough). Pete Buttegieg (and every newspaper but Breitbart) said, "Racially motivated patterns of voter suppression are responsible for Stacey Abrams not being governor of Georgia right now.” She knew it. And so did anyone else paying attention to politics in GA or in the South despite a mobile country with a changing demographic (it’s called gerrymandering).
After she lost, rather than listen to the democratic machine who wanted her to run for the Senate, she basically said, No thanks, I’ll stay here and work to educate voters about how to change this shit! And did she ever! According to the Atlanta Journal Constitution, “ . . . for the first time in nearly 30 years, a Democratic nominee for president edged ahead in the vote count as former Vice President Joe Biden moved past President Donald Trump in the state early Friday morning.
If that isn’t enough, two Republican senators in the state have been forced into a runoff and suburban seats on county commissions, school boards and the general assembly are leaning blue for the first time since ‘92. THANK YOU, STACEY. Why do (and countless others) give her the credit? Because since Kemp stole the governor’s spot from her, she founded Fair Fight, turning her attention to the deeper issue, the one that sets the rules under which elections like hers play out. In her recent book, Our Time Is Now: Power, Purpose, and the Fight for a Fair America, “Abrams makes the case that the fight over democracy is the central question of our politics, with more power and clarity than any other politician I’ve heard” (Ezra Klein, Vox).
She worked tirelessly to overcome Republican implemented methods of suppression such as voter-I.D. laws and voter-roll purges, that have disproportionately affected people of color (21st Century Jim Crow crap).
The single biggest reason for Trumpers, suspended disbelief, anti-science, “alternate” facts and fake news? The biggest encapsulation of all:
Now that we know who won, headlines continue to point out that “It was the culmination of a race that Mr. Biden entered, he often said, only after being outraged by the sight of white nationalists marching in Charlottesville, Va., in 2017. The episode appeared to harden his resolution to mount a centrist campaign that would reject extremism and pull the country together” (NYT). If I were to use my critical thinking skills to analyze that statement, I’d say that President-elect Biden seems to be moved to help America get over its racism.
But, since I AM using my critical thinking skills, I will call upon the nation’s history for the last four hundred years to say, “I’ll believe it when I see ANYTHING come out of Washington.” History has told me campaign rhetoric is cheap, and once in, all but disappears. Now, it’s up to US to hold the new administration’s feet to the fire and MAKE them do something about the prison system. Make them do something about the police forces. Make them do something about education and child care and medical treatment and wages and loans for first-time home buyers, and white supremacist terrorist groups. We can start by LISTENING to the Black community who put Biden in office and squelched the white nationalism that seems to have way too big a hold on this country (particularly white, uneducated men over the age of fifty).
WTF, people!
P.S. White people started this crap. It’s up to white people to end it.
Debra, that worked! As you said, no graphics came across but you could probably capture each graphic and post it, but I suspect the essay itself will let us know what are trying to convey. I have not read it yet, but will soon. Thanks for going the extra mile to get your thoughts across!
Your message wasn't delivered to team@xplissit.com because the domain xplissit.com couldn't be found. Check for typos or unnecessary spaces and try again." Did I use the wrong email?
Debra, this last one is the link on your computer to the file you want us to see. What you should do now is open that file, select all, copy, and then paste that to your comment space here. Someone who does this more often than me might be able to help you post the content of the file more directly than that. Thanks for sharing.
(Note: This article was not written with a Trump audience in mind. My mama taught me not to argue with CULTS).
Racial prejudice needs to STOP. Why? Because it works systematically to prevent people of color from
achieving their full potential as human beings (and yeah, they ARE human beings).
making their fullest contribution to society (check out what they have given sports and entertainment, two of the only areas where they are now welcomed with open arms).
benefiting from the potential contributions of their people and weakening the community as a whole (multiculturalism and race-mixing works).
Furthermore, racism
increases the present or eventual likelihood of retaliation by the victims of racist actions (can you say, “Summer of 2020?”).
goes against many of the democratic ideals upon which the United States and other democracies were founded (but conveniently forgotten for the last 400 years).
People who live in multicultural, mixed-race cities realize people are the same, and they are far more willing to work together to achieve better outcomes in business and community. Yet, even in big cities, white people have a need to live in white neighborhoods. White people have a need to make sure everyone else knows they rule.
How can anyone call himself a human and also be a racist?
In most of the cities across the nation with populations over a million, Biden won. And what tipped the vote there are Black Americans. It’s time for the Democrats to give back! And I mean pay SERIOUS attention to what Black Americans want and need to succeed. No more committees. No more ten-year plans. Is white America worried KARMA will be a bitch?
Joe Biden’s campaign is hopeful that the state’s growing population of young, nonwhite voters will deliver this toss-up state to Democrats this year (NPR 2020 Election regarding PA).
As of 2014 Census estimates, Harris County had a population of 4,441,370 people. The racial and ethnic makeup of the county was 40.8% Hispanic or Latino. The population was 31.4% non-Hispanic white, 19.5% non-Hispanic black, 1.1% Native American, 7.0% Asian, 0.1% Pacific Islander. So, that’s over 50% NON-WHITE. Here’s the Harris Country breakdown:
Raise your hand if you think these people put Biden in the position to win Harris Co.
When I left my sister’s house Tuesday night in utter disbelief, Trump was winning in Michigan! Then I re-listened to what Bernie had said on Fallon a week earlier:
Then, during the night, Detroit’s votes started to pour in, and guess what?
Here’s another interesting tidbit: When asked to decide which issue should be a top priority if Biden gets elected, only 6% of respondents said “racism,” but when asked how serious a problem racism is in policing, they had this to say:
I might be wrong here, but it seems that democrats are willing to admit racism exists but not take much action to DO ANYTHING about it! And this is bullshit. I’ve heard say that “The Civil Rights Act insured black people would vote for the Democrat forevermore.” I’ve also heard, “Black people don’t vote,” as if they OWE it to Democrats for passing the Civil Rights Act in 1964 (read Isabel Wilkerson’s Caste or Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow, if you wanna see how much good that did).
Interesting that when it mattered the most (a week ago), the Black community tipped it for getting rid of Trump. And I say that because they (like me) didn’t vote for Biden; they voted to get rid of Trump. As many times as people screwed by the DNC have said, “No more holding my nose,” we did it to get rid of the biggest Con since these guys, https://www.casino.org/blog/top-10-conmen/ (I fully expect Trump to be added to this as soon as the numbers come out).
If the DNC and people like Biden interpret this election any other way, they are fools. Despite the war on education, people in this country have common sense which tells them, “Fool me once . . .” And many of us know that “we get to choose, only after the two-party machines pick the millionaires for us to decide between.
We have to get real and start talking about Racism and Bigotry. NOW.
It would be grossly unfair and inaccurate to say that every one of Trump’s supporters have https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/bias against ethnic and religious minorities, but it would be equally inaccurate to say that few do. The Republican party, going at least as far back as Richard Nixon’s “southern strategy,” has historically used tactics that appealed to bigotry, such as lacing speeches with “dog whistles,” coded racial appeals that carefully manipulate hostility toward nonwhites.
While the dog whistles of the past were subtler, Trump’s signaling is sometimes shockingly direct. There’s no denying that he routinely appeals to racist and bigoted supporters when he calls Muslims “dangerous” and Mexican immigrants “rapists” and “murderers,” often in a blanketed fashion. Perhaps unsurprisingly, a https://jspp.psychopen.eu/article/view/750 has shown that support for Trump is correlated with a standard scale of modern racism (Pettigrew, https://jspp.psychopen.eu/article/view/750) .
To understand this one a little better, we must go back to the gubernatorial race in that state, where Stacey lost to the same guy, Brian Kemp, Georgia’s secretary of state, who presided over the very election in which he ran against Abrams, marred by charges of voterfraud (cough, cough). Pete Buttegieg (and every newspaper but Breitbart) said, "Racially motivated patterns of voter suppression are responsible for Stacey Abrams not being governor of Georgia right now.” She knew it. And so did anyone else paying attention to politics in GA or in the South despite a mobile country with a changing demographic (it’s called gerrymandering).
After she lost, rather than listen to the democratic machine who wanted her to run for the Senate, she basically said, No thanks, I’ll stay here and work to educate voters about how to change this shit! And did she ever! According to the Atlanta Journal Constitution, “ . . . for the first time in nearly 30 years, a Democratic nominee for president edged ahead in the vote count as former Vice President Joe Biden moved past President Donald Trump in the state early Friday morning.
If that isn’t enough, two Republican senators in the state have been forced into a runoff and suburban seats on county commissions, school boards and the general assembly are leaning blue for the first time since ‘92. THANK YOU, STACEY. Why do (and countless others) give her the credit? Because since Kemp stole the governor’s spot from her, she founded Fair Fight, turning her attention to the deeper issue, the one that sets the rules under which elections like hers play out. In her recent book, Our Time Is Now: Power, Purpose, and the Fight for a Fair America, “Abrams makes the case that the fight over democracy is the central question of our politics, with more power and clarity than any other politician I’ve heard” (Ezra Klein, Vox).
She worked tirelessly to overcome Republican implemented methods of suppression such as voter-I.D. laws and voter-roll purges, that have disproportionately affected people of color (21st Century Jim Crow crap).
The single biggest reason for Trumpers, suspended disbelief, anti-science, “alternate” facts and fake news? The biggest encapsulation of all:
Now that we know who won, headlines continue to point out that “It was the culmination of a race that Mr. Biden entered, he often said, only after being outraged by the sight of white nationalists marching in Charlottesville, Va., in 2017. The episode appeared to harden his resolution to mount a centrist campaign that would reject extremism and pull the country together” (NYT). If I were to use my critical thinking skills to analyze that statement, I’d say that President-elect Biden seems to be moved to help America get over its racism.
But, since I AM using my critical thinking skills, I will call upon the nation’s history for the last four hundred years to say, “I’ll believe it when I see ANYTHING come out of Washington.” History has told me campaign rhetoric is cheap, and once in, all but disappears. Now, it’s up to US to hold the new administration’s feet to the fire and MAKE them do something about the prison system. Make them do something about the police forces. Make them do something about education and child care and medical treatment and wages and loans for first-time home buyers, and white supremacist terrorist groups. We can start by LISTENING to the Black community who put Biden in office and squelched the white nationalism that seems to have way too big a hold on this country (particularly white, uneducated men over the age of fifty).
WTF, people!
P.S. White people started this crap. It’s up to white people to end it.
Debra, I finally read your piece just now. I can see that a couple of graphics were important but not absolutely necessary to understand your point. Too bad your writing was suppressed in 2020.
I thought your last major paragraph was a powerful summation.
Thank you, Phil. I have been asking Medium why they suspended my account for four years (on and off). Here’s what they finally told me yesterday: It looks like your Medium account was mistakenly caught in our spam filter. I have now restored your account and/or any affected post(s). I was ablt to copy the link. Now that they have restored my account, maybe it’s readable. https://medium.com/@debracusick/thank-you-black-america-8b8f3d7d6abe
I’m responding to your post right now. I’ll watch the videos, next. You. Are. Right. On. Point. You have the clearest and best analysis I’ve seen about many very frustrating democrats. Thank you for this. You should send your Substack to every democrat in the House and Senate right now, and maybe every one who is running for those positions. I will send this to someone who is running for the House in my district (the current House member is a putrid repub who rants against Muslims, etc.)
I am tired tired tired of Democrats playing suck up , excuse me , with MAGA.
These people who schedule hate into every sentence don’t need to be cooed at , they need the truth.
And if it comes out in a direct way it’s not “ forward “ it’s adult education.
Black women have been saving Democrat s asses for quite some time .
Because they are smart and savvy about reality , they’ve lived it .
Reality can be damn hard but it’s not a surprise.
Over the past several years I’ve heard many democratic leaders be agonizingly careful on how they approach lunatics, fire breathing dragons and excuse me , it’s true, morons.
How can we be cowed by some of the worst explanations of attempted attacks on Americans , pretending it’s “for their own good “ while just grinding our faces in lies.
Everyone talks about the Democrats needing a plan . Yup , the plan should be to get some guts and distribute the truth that way. I love Jasmine Crocket , because she tells the truth without tripping over herself to “ make nice”.
Democrats needing a plan to get a spine and let people know they’ve got one.
Show it off.
If you offend someone , they’ll get over it . So should you.
Exactly! STOP asking for permission and just DO something!
I watched Andy Beshear on Jon Stewart - same routine - the consultancy catch phrases and then, his speaking from the heart. I thought at the time it sounded scripted & after hearing this clip from the View - obviously, it was.
Jasmine Crockett simply tells it like it is and should win that race. Sounds like the Dems are going for the safe (white?) vote. Didnt work in NYC - and I hope it doesnt in Maine.
Sure does sound like doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different ending.
How's that working for them?
How’s it working for us ?
NOT!
On another note - finished watching Jon Stewart w/Beshear. Thanks to Jon, the interview got better as it went along - I had only watched first 10 minutes or so.
The thing is - there is no white (or black) knight thats magically going to show up and save the day. Obama, I think, was a one time thing and he could only do so much . Of course, trump proved that's not true, didnt he?
"Everything is not in your benefit." "You are not the default." √√
Puts the finger on> narcissism. Can we center community? Can US be multi-centered? That is what/who we are.
Nice piece, you definitely make your point well. And thanks for introducing me to Reecie Colbert!
Resist MAGA gangster grifter authoritarianism!
Vote Sane. #VoteBlue!
Since I am on a roll today posting forceful truth-telling Black women like Sister Souljah, I might as well continue. Consider this re-stacked.
She’s a hero.
It takes more guts to be Non-violent than the dt&Co/maga Violence and Grift. And yes, what they do is all about violence - ripping everything from others that they can; wealth, rights, privileges, bodily autonomy, freedoms, the list is as disgusting as it is endless. Being Non-violent does not mean being a doormat, it means you say what you need, what you can do and what you expect, and what is unacceptable (and what is acceptable). You can be civil without being mean, you can demand without being pushy, and you can assert without being bossy. I think many people get confused there, thinking civil means giving way or giving in or that peace means being quiet or muted, agreeing to everything whether you like it or not. Nope. It does not mean that. Thanks for bringing this up. We need to hear it. More than this, we need to say and act it. Time to step up to the plate and play the game, without reservations.
There is no ladylike or gentlemanly way to reject tyranny, restore the rule of law and obtain justice for all.
It is necessary to name what’s happening, however uncomfortable. If Fascism, tyranny, lies, cruelty, Gestapo tactics, police misconduct, concentration camps and evil are what we see, we must use those words regardless of how uncomfortable it makes some people.
When our house is burning down, we don’t whisper fire, we shout, break down doors, get people to safety, call for help and get a hose.
Democrats need to stop letting Republicans define the conversation. They should go on the offensive and define the conversation themselves. The response to trickle down economics isn't to question it. The response is that billionaires are doing okay. They seem to be managing without additional tax cuts.
I've always loved Rep. Crockett; thanks for explaining why. It's past time we as a party listen to her and elect her to the Senate.
I wrote this right after Biden was elected.I'm not a nice Democrat either.
/Users/debracusick/Desktop/Thank You Black America.docx
My account was was found in violation of the Medium Rules and I was suspended. Fuck that!
you misspelled the name wrong. xplissEt. e iinstead of I
Would you like me to repost it on the front page for everyone here to see…or keep it between us?
I’m curious as well. What’s the entire link?
THANK YOU, BLACK AMERICA!!!!
(Note: This article was not written with a Trump audience in mind. My mama taught me not to argue with CULTS).
Racial prejudice needs to STOP. Why? Because it works systematically to prevent people of color from
• achieving their full potential as human beings (and yeah, they ARE human beings).
• making their fullest contribution to society (check out what they have given sports and entertainment, two of the only areas where they are now welcomed with open arms).
• benefiting from the potential contributions of their people and weakening the community as a whole (multiculturalism and race-mixing works).
Furthermore, racism
• increases the present or eventual likelihood of retaliation by the victims of racist actions (can you say, “Summer of 2020?”).
• goes against many of the democratic ideals upon which the United States and other democracies were founded (but conveniently forgotten for the last 400 years).
• Oh, and BTW: Racism is illegal (https://history.house.gov/Exhibitions-and-Publications/BAIC/Historical-Data/Constitutional-Amendments-and-Legislation/ )
People who live in multicultural, mixed-race cities realize people are the same, and they are far more willing to work together to achieve better outcomes in business and community. Yet, even in big cities, white people have a need to live in white neighborhoods. White people have a need to make sure everyone else knows they rule.
How can anyone call himself a human and also be a racist?
In most of the cities across the nation with populations over a million, Biden won. And what tipped the vote there are Black Americans. It’s time for the Democrats to give back! And I mean pay SERIOUS attention to what Black Americans want and need to succeed. No more committees. No more ten-year plans. Is white America worried KARMA will be a bitch?
Joe Biden’s campaign is hopeful that the state’s growing population of young, nonwhite voters will deliver this toss-up state to Democrats this year (NPR 2020 Election regarding PA).
As of 2014 Census estimates, Harris County had a population of 4,441,370 people. The racial and ethnic makeup of the county was 40.8% Hispanic or Latino. The population was 31.4% non-Hispanic white, 19.5% non-Hispanic black, 1.1% Native American, 7.0% Asian, 0.1% Pacific Islander. So, that’s over 50% NON-WHITE. Here’s the Harris Country breakdown:
Raise your hand if you think these people put Biden in the position to win Harris Co.
When I left my sister’s house Tuesday night in utter disbelief, Trump was winning in Michigan! Then I re-listened to what Bernie had said on Fallon a week earlier:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/tv/2020/11/05/bernie-sanders-jimmy-fallon-clip-goes-viral-election-2020-guess/6171674002/
Then, during the night, Detroit’s votes started to pour in, and guess what?
Here’s another interesting tidbit: When asked to decide which issue should be a top priority if Biden gets elected, only 6% of respondents said “racism,” but when asked how serious a problem racism is in policing, they had this to say:
I might be wrong here, but it seems that democrats are willing to admit racism exists but not take much action to DO ANYTHING about it! And this is bullshit. I’ve heard say that “The Civil Rights Act insured black people would vote for the Democrat forevermore.” I’ve also heard, “Black people don’t vote,” as if they OWE it to Democrats for passing the Civil Rights Act in 1964 (read Isabel Wilkerson’s Caste or Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow, if you wanna see how much good that did).
Interesting that when it mattered the most (a week ago), the Black community tipped it for getting rid of Trump. And I say that because they (like me) didn’t vote for Biden; they voted to get rid of Trump. As many times as people screwed by the DNC have said, “No more holding my nose,” we did it to get rid of the biggest Con since these guys, https://www.casino.org/blog/top-10-conmen/ (I fully expect Trump to be added to this as soon as the numbers come out).
If the DNC and people like Biden interpret this election any other way, they are fools. Despite the war on education, people in this country have common sense which tells them, “Fool me once . . .” And many of us know that “we get to choose, only after the two-party machines pick the millionaires for us to decide between.
We have to get real and start talking about Racism and Bigotry. NOW.
It would be grossly unfair and inaccurate to say that every one of Trump’s supporters have prejudice against ethnic and religious minorities, but it would be equally inaccurate to say that few do. The Republican party, going at least as far back as Richard Nixon’s “southern strategy,” has historically used tactics that appealed to bigotry, such as lacing speeches with “dog whistles,” coded racial appeals that carefully manipulate hostility toward nonwhites.
https://tcf.org/content/report/attacking-black-white-opportunity-gap-comes-residential-segregation/?agreed=1
While the dog whistles of the past were subtler, Trump’s signaling is sometimes shockingly direct. There’s no denying that he routinely appeals to racist and bigoted supporters when he calls Muslims “dangerous” and Mexican immigrants “rapists” and “murderers,” often in a blanketed fashion. Perhaps unsurprisingly, a recent study has shown that support for Trump is correlated with a standard scale of modern racism (Pettigrew, https://jspp.psychopen.eu/article/view/750) .
“Trump had a 15-point advantage among whites and a 46-point deficit with people of color,” according to FAIR (11.06.20) https://fair.org/home/exit-lines-campaign-analysts-miss-the-signal-in-the-noise/ DO WE GET IT YET?!?
Georgia!?!
Thank you, STACEY ABRAMS!
To understand this one a little better, we must go back to the gubernatorial race in that state, where Stacey lost to the same guy, Brian Kemp, Georgia’s secretary of state, who presided over the very election in which he ran against Abrams, marred by charges of voter fraud (cough, cough). Pete Buttegieg (and every newspaper but Breitbart) said, "Racially motivated patterns of voter suppression are responsible for Stacey Abrams not being governor of Georgia right now.” She knew it. And so did anyone else paying attention to politics in GA or in the South despite a mobile country with a changing demographic (it’s called gerrymandering).
After she lost, rather than listen to the democratic machine who wanted her to run for the Senate, she basically said, No thanks, I’ll stay here and work to educate voters about how to change this shit! And did she ever! According to the Atlanta Journal Constitution, “ . . . for the first time in nearly 30 years, a Democratic nominee for president edged ahead in the vote count as former Vice President Joe Biden moved past President Donald Trump in the state early Friday morning.
If that isn’t enough, two Republican senators in the state have been forced into a runoff and suburban seats on county commissions, school boards and the general assembly are leaning blue for the first time since ‘92. THANK YOU, STACEY. Why do (and countless others) give her the credit? Because since Kemp stole the governor’s spot from her, she founded Fair Fight, turning her attention to the deeper issue, the one that sets the rules under which elections like hers play out. In her recent book, Our Time Is Now: Power, Purpose, and the Fight for a Fair America, “Abrams makes the case that the fight over democracy is the central question of our politics, with more power and clarity than any other politician I’ve heard” (Ezra Klein, Vox).
She worked tirelessly to overcome Republican implemented methods of suppression such as voter-I.D. laws and voter-roll purges, that have disproportionately affected people of color (21st Century Jim Crow crap).
The single biggest reason for Trumpers, suspended disbelief, anti-science, “alternate” facts and fake news? The biggest encapsulation of all:
Now that we know who won, headlines continue to point out that “It was the culmination of a race that Mr. Biden entered, he often said, only after being outraged by the sight of white nationalists marching in Charlottesville, Va., in 2017. The episode appeared to harden his resolution to mount a centrist campaign that would reject extremism and pull the country together” (NYT). If I were to use my critical thinking skills to analyze that statement, I’d say that President-elect Biden seems to be moved to help America get over its racism.
But, since I AM using my critical thinking skills, I will call upon the nation’s history for the last four hundred years to say, “I’ll believe it when I see ANYTHING come out of Washington.” History has told me campaign rhetoric is cheap, and once in, all but disappears. Now, it’s up to US to hold the new administration’s feet to the fire and MAKE them do something about the prison system. Make them do something about the police forces. Make them do something about education and child care and medical treatment and wages and loans for first-time home buyers, and white supremacist terrorist groups. We can start by LISTENING to the Black community who put Biden in office and squelched the white nationalism that seems to have way too big a hold on this country (particularly white, uneducated men over the age of fifty).
WTF, people!
P.S. White people started this crap. It’s up to white people to end it.
Debra, that worked! As you said, no graphics came across but you could probably capture each graphic and post it, but I suspect the essay itself will let us know what are trying to convey. I have not read it yet, but will soon. Thanks for going the extra mile to get your thoughts across!
Go to about link on the homepage of the website….you will see my email there
I think I sent it. Jeez. I feel like I have never used a computer before. I sent it to team@xplissit.com
I didn’t receive it.
It keeps bouncinig back with
"Address not found
Your message wasn't delivered to team@xplissit.com because the domain xplissit.com couldn't be found. Check for typos or unnecessary spaces and try again." Did I use the wrong email?
Debra, the link just goes to the “suspended notice.” If you want us to see what you actually submitted, please post the writing here.
Debra, this last one is the link on your computer to the file you want us to see. What you should do now is open that file, select all, copy, and then paste that to your comment space here. Someone who does this more often than me might be able to help you post the content of the file more directly than that. Thanks for sharing.
I hope this works. It removded all my graphics.
THANK YOU, BLACK AMERICA!!!!
(Note: This article was not written with a Trump audience in mind. My mama taught me not to argue with CULTS).
Racial prejudice needs to STOP. Why? Because it works systematically to prevent people of color from
achieving their full potential as human beings (and yeah, they ARE human beings).
making their fullest contribution to society (check out what they have given sports and entertainment, two of the only areas where they are now welcomed with open arms).
benefiting from the potential contributions of their people and weakening the community as a whole (multiculturalism and race-mixing works).
Furthermore, racism
increases the present or eventual likelihood of retaliation by the victims of racist actions (can you say, “Summer of 2020?”).
goes against many of the democratic ideals upon which the United States and other democracies were founded (but conveniently forgotten for the last 400 years).
Oh, and BTW: Racism is illegal (https://history.house.gov/Exhibitions-and-Publications/BAIC/Historical-Data/Constitutional-Amendments-and-Legislation/ )
People who live in multicultural, mixed-race cities realize people are the same, and they are far more willing to work together to achieve better outcomes in business and community. Yet, even in big cities, white people have a need to live in white neighborhoods. White people have a need to make sure everyone else knows they rule.
How can anyone call himself a human and also be a racist?
In most of the cities across the nation with populations over a million, Biden won. And what tipped the vote there are Black Americans. It’s time for the Democrats to give back! And I mean pay SERIOUS attention to what Black Americans want and need to succeed. No more committees. No more ten-year plans. Is white America worried KARMA will be a bitch?
Joe Biden’s campaign is hopeful that the state’s growing population of young, nonwhite voters will deliver this toss-up state to Democrats this year (NPR 2020 Election regarding PA).
As of 2014 Census estimates, Harris County had a population of 4,441,370 people. The racial and ethnic makeup of the county was 40.8% Hispanic or Latino. The population was 31.4% non-Hispanic white, 19.5% non-Hispanic black, 1.1% Native American, 7.0% Asian, 0.1% Pacific Islander. So, that’s over 50% NON-WHITE. Here’s the Harris Country breakdown:
Raise your hand if you think these people put Biden in the position to win Harris Co.
When I left my sister’s house Tuesday night in utter disbelief, Trump was winning in Michigan! Then I re-listened to what Bernie had said on Fallon a week earlier:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/tv/2020/11/05/bernie-sanders-jimmy-fallon-clip-goes-viral-election-2020-guess/6171674002/
Then, during the night, Detroit’s votes started to pour in, and guess what?
Here’s another interesting tidbit: When asked to decide which issue should be a top priority if Biden gets elected, only 6% of respondents said “racism,” but when asked how serious a problem racism is in policing, they had this to say:
I might be wrong here, but it seems that democrats are willing to admit racism exists but not take much action to DO ANYTHING about it! And this is bullshit. I’ve heard say that “The Civil Rights Act insured black people would vote for the Democrat forevermore.” I’ve also heard, “Black people don’t vote,” as if they OWE it to Democrats for passing the Civil Rights Act in 1964 (read Isabel Wilkerson’s Caste or Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow, if you wanna see how much good that did).
Interesting that when it mattered the most (a week ago), the Black community tipped it for getting rid of Trump. And I say that because they (like me) didn’t vote for Biden; they voted to get rid of Trump. As many times as people screwed by the DNC have said, “No more holding my nose,” we did it to get rid of the biggest Con since these guys, https://www.casino.org/blog/top-10-conmen/ (I fully expect Trump to be added to this as soon as the numbers come out).
If the DNC and people like Biden interpret this election any other way, they are fools. Despite the war on education, people in this country have common sense which tells them, “Fool me once . . .” And many of us know that “we get to choose, only after the two-party machines pick the millionaires for us to decide between.
We have to get real and start talking about Racism and Bigotry. NOW.
It would be grossly unfair and inaccurate to say that every one of Trump’s supporters have https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/bias against ethnic and religious minorities, but it would be equally inaccurate to say that few do. The Republican party, going at least as far back as Richard Nixon’s “southern strategy,” has historically used tactics that appealed to bigotry, such as lacing speeches with “dog whistles,” coded racial appeals that carefully manipulate hostility toward nonwhites.
https://tcf.org/content/report/attacking-black-white-opportunity-gap-comes-residential-segregation/?agreed=1
While the dog whistles of the past were subtler, Trump’s signaling is sometimes shockingly direct. There’s no denying that he routinely appeals to racist and bigoted supporters when he calls Muslims “dangerous” and Mexican immigrants “rapists” and “murderers,” often in a blanketed fashion. Perhaps unsurprisingly, a https://jspp.psychopen.eu/article/view/750 has shown that support for Trump is correlated with a standard scale of modern racism (Pettigrew, https://jspp.psychopen.eu/article/view/750) .
“Trump had a 15-point advantage among whites and a 46-point deficit with people of color,” according to FAIR (11.06.20) https://fair.org/home/exit-lines-campaign-analysts-miss-the-signal-in-the-noise/ DO WE GET IT YET?!?
Georgia!?!
Thank you, STACEY ABRAMS!
To understand this one a little better, we must go back to the gubernatorial race in that state, where Stacey lost to the same guy, Brian Kemp, Georgia’s secretary of state, who presided over the very election in which he ran against Abrams, marred by charges of voterfraud (cough, cough). Pete Buttegieg (and every newspaper but Breitbart) said, "Racially motivated patterns of voter suppression are responsible for Stacey Abrams not being governor of Georgia right now.” She knew it. And so did anyone else paying attention to politics in GA or in the South despite a mobile country with a changing demographic (it’s called gerrymandering).
After she lost, rather than listen to the democratic machine who wanted her to run for the Senate, she basically said, No thanks, I’ll stay here and work to educate voters about how to change this shit! And did she ever! According to the Atlanta Journal Constitution, “ . . . for the first time in nearly 30 years, a Democratic nominee for president edged ahead in the vote count as former Vice President Joe Biden moved past President Donald Trump in the state early Friday morning.
If that isn’t enough, two Republican senators in the state have been forced into a runoff and suburban seats on county commissions, school boards and the general assembly are leaning blue for the first time since ‘92. THANK YOU, STACEY. Why do (and countless others) give her the credit? Because since Kemp stole the governor’s spot from her, she founded Fair Fight, turning her attention to the deeper issue, the one that sets the rules under which elections like hers play out. In her recent book, Our Time Is Now: Power, Purpose, and the Fight for a Fair America, “Abrams makes the case that the fight over democracy is the central question of our politics, with more power and clarity than any other politician I’ve heard” (Ezra Klein, Vox).
She worked tirelessly to overcome Republican implemented methods of suppression such as voter-I.D. laws and voter-roll purges, that have disproportionately affected people of color (21st Century Jim Crow crap).
The single biggest reason for Trumpers, suspended disbelief, anti-science, “alternate” facts and fake news? The biggest encapsulation of all:
Now that we know who won, headlines continue to point out that “It was the culmination of a race that Mr. Biden entered, he often said, only after being outraged by the sight of white nationalists marching in Charlottesville, Va., in 2017. The episode appeared to harden his resolution to mount a centrist campaign that would reject extremism and pull the country together” (NYT). If I were to use my critical thinking skills to analyze that statement, I’d say that President-elect Biden seems to be moved to help America get over its racism.
But, since I AM using my critical thinking skills, I will call upon the nation’s history for the last four hundred years to say, “I’ll believe it when I see ANYTHING come out of Washington.” History has told me campaign rhetoric is cheap, and once in, all but disappears. Now, it’s up to US to hold the new administration’s feet to the fire and MAKE them do something about the prison system. Make them do something about the police forces. Make them do something about education and child care and medical treatment and wages and loans for first-time home buyers, and white supremacist terrorist groups. We can start by LISTENING to the Black community who put Biden in office and squelched the white nationalism that seems to have way too big a hold on this country (particularly white, uneducated men over the age of fifty).
WTF, people!
P.S. White people started this crap. It’s up to white people to end it.
Debra, I finally read your piece just now. I can see that a couple of graphics were important but not absolutely necessary to understand your point. Too bad your writing was suppressed in 2020.
I thought your last major paragraph was a powerful summation.
I’m glad you were finally able to publish.
Thank you, Phil. I have been asking Medium why they suspended my account for four years (on and off). Here’s what they finally told me yesterday: It looks like your Medium account was mistakenly caught in our spam filter. I have now restored your account and/or any affected post(s). I was ablt to copy the link. Now that they have restored my account, maybe it’s readable. https://medium.com/@debracusick/thank-you-black-america-8b8f3d7d6abe
I’m responding to your post right now. I’ll watch the videos, next. You. Are. Right. On. Point. You have the clearest and best analysis I’ve seen about many very frustrating democrats. Thank you for this. You should send your Substack to every democrat in the House and Senate right now, and maybe every one who is running for those positions. I will send this to someone who is running for the House in my district (the current House member is a putrid repub who rants against Muslims, etc.)