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In reply to the discussion: There is something deeply repulsive watching young white kids booing Cummings and Lewis [View all]DonCoquixote
(13,728 posts)But this election has reminded me how utterly angry I was whenever an affluent white self-labeled liberal would lecture me on my experience as a Latino, or other people about begin black. Some people can have ignorance, and if they are the good people they think they are, they can listen, learn, and a problem is fixed. But there is also arrogance, a remedy for which there are no medicines. They do not want to admit that maybe the reason our left did fall so hard is because they are the same people who let the unions fall because they had dirty hands. Or, they were also the people for whom Unions could no no wrong, even as they excluded brown people from them.
I have some very rude news for the sorts of people that tried to turn the Convention into a WWE act, liberalism, will be saved all right, indeed, we will take it farther than even the old gray heads you worship meant to, but that is because the work, and oh yes, a good portion of the power, will be taken by the sort of people you expect to keep pouring your coffee at Starbucks. Oh yes, there will be a revolution, but it will not be on YOUR terms, with you becoming the leader like some Dances with Wolves/avatar/tarzan fantasy of the great white king.