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What is your insinuation there exactly?
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that the dc voter base was accustomed to pandering. btw, marion barry is now councilman for life representing ward 8.
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That is your analysis, and you're free to it, but you'd be either naive, dense, or blatantly racist to pretend race does NOT play into it considering that in America we have an extensive history of a racist economic structure where black and brown are systematically disenfranchised.
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and the best thing for "black and brown" is continue to obsess with that history and blaming "the white man" for every problem instead of looking for a leg up, right?
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That is your opinion, but again, for example, here in LA we have a majority Latino population, and yet we do NOT see a latino majority in local government, in civic matters, in politics, and especially in the leaders of the "business community", in other words, there is problem. Our economic and political environment doesn't reflect our demographic reality. Doesn't pass the smell test if you ask me  |
didn't hellay have a "latino" mayor until a few weeks ago?
in any case "latino" is not a "race", it's really more of a culture, and not a very homogeneous one at that.
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dead_batter has no experience to make the correct decision, he lives in a racially homogenous society. As you your claims of primitivism and stupidity, well, again, you are free to you analysis but wishful thinking does NOT negate the realities of our racist economic and political structures in the US. We can have all the fantasies and charade pat on the back moments, but this is most definitely NOT a post-racial society.
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dead battery has direct experience of seeing the stupidity of centuries-old religious wars continuing to live in his day. because! there is a history! (and history must never change, right? grudges must be held for eternity.)
identity politics and primitivism never did anyone any good. funny thing, germany during the rise of hitler also was "oppressed" (by the versailles treaty and of course "those damn jews") and he fed it right into their stupid mouths. have you read "mein kampf"? it's all about race and playing the victim card.