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usonian

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15. You pointed out something I left out (and will edit in)
Fri May 8, 2026, 12:50 PM
Yesterday
The best, the ONLY cure to WhiteChristianNationalism, race baiting, mysogyny, etc. is WINNING
https://democraticunderground.com/100216524810
March 2022

If you're tired of hearing it from me, this is from the epilogue of "Stamped From the Beginning", by Ibram X Kendi.
This is of course, about racism, but racism is the engine of the Repugnant party.
Emphasis mine:

Protesting against racist power and succeeding can never be mistaken for seizing power. Any effective solution to eradicating American racism must involve Americans committed to antiracist policies seizing and maintaining power over institutions, neighborhoods, counties, states, nations—the world. It makes no sense to sit back and put the future in the hands of people committed to racist policies, or people who regularly sail with the wind of self-interest, toward racism today, toward antiracism tomorrow. An antiracist America can only be guaranteed if principled antiracists are in power, and then antiracist policies become the law of the land, and then antiracist ideas become the common sense of the people, and then the antiracist common sense of the people holds those antiracist leaders and policies accountable.

And that day is sure to come. No power lasts forever. There will come a time when Americans will realize that the only thing wrong with Black people is that they think something is wrong with Black people. There will come a time when racist ideas will no longer obstruct us from seeing the complete and utter abnormality of racial disparities. There will come a time when we will love humanity, when we will gain the courage to fight for an equitable society for our beloved humanity, knowing , intelligently, that when we fight for humanity, we are fighting for ourselves. There will come a time. Maybe, just maybe, that time is now.

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They damn sure need better messaging and strategy. They don't use power well. CousinIT Yesterday #1
We need a basic simple message to run on: Ars Longa Yesterday #36
I have posted about the disappearance of the party between elections while the GOP hate mill keeps on spewing nonstop. usonian Yesterday #2
+1 leftstreet Yesterday #6
Wow Keepthesoulalive Yesterday #12
You pointed out something I left out (and will edit in) usonian Yesterday #15
We've waited 300 years Keepthesoulalive Yesterday #26
And rewrite history as well. usonian Yesterday #28
I understand what you are saying Keepthesoulalive Yesterday #30
It was a digression. usonian Yesterday #33
I am aware of corporate and government complicity in the holocaust Keepthesoulalive Yesterday #35
Project 2029 yankee87 Yesterday #3
I am fiercely on board with that. gab13by13 Yesterday #9
Nothing happens without court expansion Fiendish Thingy Yesterday #19
They need a second think tank bucolic_frolic Yesterday #4
I don't want any talk of understanding, compassion, reconciliation. dalton99a Yesterday #5
That's not a platform TheProle Yesterday #18
I think it has to be both... kentuck Yesterday #22
Yep that's what I was saying. TheProle Yesterday #29
IMV we need a bona fide platform Prairie_Seagull Yesterday #7
See my reply #2 usonian Yesterday #10
When I started my post there was only Prairie_Seagull Yesterday #13
One has to type quickly here. usonian Yesterday #14
Bruce was/is one of my heros Prairie_Seagull Yesterday #20
Share, if it offends people! usonian Yesterday #21
It needs input from unwashed Democrats gab13by13 Yesterday #8
Ugh. Can we not say "unwashed?" n/t leftstreet Yesterday #11
My use of the word unwashed is a literary word gab13by13 Yesterday #16
NO! Fiendish Thingy Yesterday #17
project management rampartd Yesterday #23
Progressive Policy Institute? Center for American Progress? Third Way? Roosevelt Institute? Brookings? WhiskeyGrinder Yesterday #24
Headed by Obamas!!!! ALBliberal Yesterday #25
This message was self-deleted by its author awesomerwb1 Yesterday #27
Set aside current management of the DNC... ultralite001 Yesterday #31
It would be WAY easier if we could get 67 votes in the Senate jmowreader Yesterday #32
No. We just need to stop attacking each other to protect individual causes - haele Yesterday #34
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