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Brittany Wilkins's avatar

I don't like lazy narratives. And most importantly I don't like lazy journalism.

We need to acknowledge that Black voters had LEGITIMATE reasons not to vote for Hilary Clinton that did not involve the Kremlin or the GOP. Clinton had a shitty record regarding her advocacy for the 1994 Crime Bill that locked up a lot of African Americans. Her "super predators" comment. Her arrogant confidence that she would just get the Black voters like her Husband did without laying out any real substantial policies to address the plight of Black people in that state. Same shit different day. Democrats come to Black people expecting our votes but they don't deliver the goods when they hit office.

Remember Flint's water crisis was the end result of decades of terrible public policy and corrupt politicians who simply didn't give a damn about the Black folk living there, all democrats. This crisis happened on Obama's watch, these folks still don't have clean water.

I definitely do not think Booker's claim was completely false or a lie. I agree that the answers are left unknown as this moment.

But we have to square this in our psyche, Donald Trump is not an oddity and the election was not illegitimate. It was exactly what we can expect from decades of political corruption, a stupid electoral college system, racism, xenophobia, bad policies that favor corporations over workers, a corporate based media environment that thrives on sensationalism, a rigged economy that pits workers against each other while enriching the elites, a dwindling middle class, a growing impoverished class, and politcians from both parties that have not responded strong enough to the problems that real Americans face.

If we don't fix these problems, there will be a million more Donald Trump's.

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disqus_9egRDGzErL's avatar

Looks like Bezos got the message when Cheetolini pulled that squillion-dollar contract for cloud computing. Who needs a belly rub? Who does? Is it Jeffy? Yes it is! It is JEFFY!

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