2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: If the Democratic Party decides to ignore the concerns of minority voters to get white 'Rust Belt' [View all]bravenak
(34,648 posts)We know that WE only get incremental progress if at all, it is others who think we can or will get it all quickly if only we did things their way. But we HAVE done ut their way before, each time we allow ourselves to vote for people who allow the policies to be initially applied to mostly helping whites just so we can get something at all. It happened with SS, black domestics got left out by FDR and black vets got fucked on the GI bill because they could not get mortgages because of redlining.
Understand, black folks study history more than any other group, and we do it in depth without college. We read about ourselves specifically while other only notice black history during black history month. You will not find a progressive policy in history that was mot done in a way to minimize benefites to blacks or harm them in some way to uplift white people. We just are not going for promises anymore, write us in or we just ignore it. Been fooled by our own party too many time to start buying indulgences at this point.
We know that the only thing that helps us is time and policy. We also know that including us reduces support for any policy. Do you understand how frustrating that is? Knowing that your color actutally makes people want to harm you and that they have had the power to choose not to do that but have always chosen to do so anyway?
Time. It will take time time time. White folks can only hold onto the majority for so much longer before they will find themselves a minority. It will then take some more time. But my grandkids and those of the dumb ass racist Trump voter will be living in a completely different america that my mother, or myself. I have basically already won by existing. They lose because they are losing the future that they want, they know that they are losing power every time a child is born because the chance that child is not white is now fifty fity. Not twenty/eighty like when they were young. They are fighting against the future and going down in history on the wrong side. My job is pointing that out, others can save them if they want, the results will end up the same regardless.
There will not be a white 'great awakening' on race. Not so long as they make excuses for each other and task minorities with the job of fixing the minds of the majority. It is a cop out thats been used since slavery. 'If only blacks acted like whites, then we could accept them', that has been the way it has been forever. We live in a catch 22. Cant act like what we are not treatedlime so they wont treat us like them until we are exactly like them but we can never be exactly like them so they treat us like shit and act lije it is because we are just so so so different. Of course we are different. We get treated different. Catch 22.
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