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African American

La Lioness Priyanka

(53,866 posts) Wed Jul 19, 2017, 07:19 PM Jul 2017

I'm getting deeply resentful of people claiming the left or progressive label who do not prioritize [View all]

civil rights.

I'm just saying I'm not going to vote for someone who doesn't center civil rights in their conversations, and I don't think you are a progressive if you don't center civil rights.

(POSTED IN THE AFRICAN AMERICAN forum, no so please don't 'all lives matter' me)

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I'm getting deeply resentful of people claiming the left or progressive label who do not prioritize [View all] La Lioness Priyanka Jul 2017 OP

Yep. nt irisblue Jul 2017 #1

Being a so-called progressive who puts civil rights on the back burner is an oxymoron... brush Jul 2017 #2

I have a question about terms Jim Lane Jul 2017 #9

Question JustAnotherGen Jul 2017 #12

Absolutely yes, and worse yet to come. Jim Lane Jul 2017 #16

You're good with what you said. Both can be supported, but no back burner pls. brush Jul 2017 #15

And no calling anti choice candidates progressive either La Lioness Priyanka Jul 2017 #18

Yep, talking about an oxymoron. brush Jul 2017 #19

+1000 brer cat Jul 2017 #3

K&R sheshe2 Jul 2017 #4

Equality and civil rights radical noodle Jul 2017 #5

Yup La Lioness Priyanka Jul 2017 #6

This cannot be BlueMTexpat Jul 2017 #10

We need to go back to the times of FDR when race and sexism didn't exist!!!! JHan Jul 2017 #7

Yeah... radical noodle Jul 2017 #8

I'm 63. My mom marched with MLK. raven mad Jul 2017 #11

K&R betsuni Jul 2017 #13

I'm right with ya nt Fresh_Start Jul 2017 #14

Hear hear. No Blue Deplorables allowed. NT The Polack MSgt Jul 2017 #17

Here is what I had not thought of until now. Eliot Rosewater Jul 2017 #20

Question: Is everyone who didn't vote for Hillary Clinton or didn't vote at all a "deplorable?" YoungDemCA Jul 2017 #22

Those folks are not the focus of this thread. The Polack MSgt Jul 2017 #23

@as he said irisblue Jul 2017 #24

If they voted for 45/140 JustAnotherGen Jul 2017 #30

Yeah. If you didn't vote for Hillary Clinton, you should be automatically suspect. KitSileya Jul 2017 #31

I'm honestly sure not sure how many of those people there are. YoungDemCA Jul 2017 #21

There's a lot of intellectual dishonesty on DU, but it isn't coming from La Lioness Priyanka emulatorloo Jul 2017 #29

K&R stonecutter357 Jul 2017 #25

Civil rights are so very important Gothmog Jul 2017 #26

Say It Loud & Say It Proud Me. Jul 2017 #27

It amazes me (not really) that a certain segment on the political spectrum KitSileya Jul 2017 #28