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And there are college educated Blacks. Professional Blacks.


But it always has been about a matter of work! The Lord's work! Your interpretation!


I don't think we want room in the "Big" tent, given the tent seems to have a for "one-race-gender-class" sign.


Our activists, thinkers, writers, contributors are "regulated" by capitalism, when, in turn, the government is freeing the corporations by deregulating rules about water and air quality. There's a hierarchy imposed on our historic figures in order to suit the authoritarian regime. It worries the current regime to find the "wrong" folks entering public restrooms just as it did when the image of Black children to sit next to white children made the KKK remember the significance of sticks of dynamite set to kill Black girls at Sunday School in a Birmingham church.


It's sad to see someone like Byron Donalds still in need of a Master. He caters to the thoughts of MAGA, a force that, in turn, plays into the hands of the capitalist class. He's not alone. There's a Black woman below me who uses a "fart machine" ever change she gets. Harassment wedded to cruelty. Where sis she become arrested in her development as a human being? She's stuck in time.


Who hurt this Black woman for her to be so cruel? So MAGA? So joined-at-the-hip to whiteness? If only she would use that time and money to work as a strategist among whose working with LaTosha Brown or Stacy Abrams's. Not likely, however. Their ancestors are the no less, the overseers!


Americans want Medicare-for-all and affordable housing. They want to abolish ICE and free kidnapped detainees housed in these detention sites. But cruelty is leading the way as a value that determines how the structure of white supremacy responses to protests against the status quo. The lives of human beings and the sustainability of life on this planet mean nothing to the current leadership in Washington D. C.--regardless of the leadership of the two parties.


Not all kin are kind! Not at all. But we do have kin"


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Have we thought about the Democratic Party's "Big Tent"?

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If the Democratic Party is the big tent, I don't want anything to do with it. This "Party of establishment takers of AIPAC funding, support genocide in Gaza." Throughout my life I've struggled to understand why Democrats won't support the majority of people, workers and minorities. But the wars in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, now Iran. And any country that refuses to join in their unrelenting wars is attacked.

Why Democrats encourage war and genocide? Why do they allow the earth to be polluted with the synthetic chemicals of the corporate world? I see all the products they sell as just one more act of war on all life. Democrats encourage hatred and ugliness in their undying support of Zionist Israel. I use the word Zionist because it is most definately appropriate. It's an ethnic nationalist movement that emerged in late 19th-century Europe to establish and support a Jewish homeland through colonization in the region of Palestine. Zionists want to create a Jewish state in Palestine with as much land, as many Jews, and as few Palestinian Arabs as possible.

Theodor Herzl and early Zionist leaders advocated for the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine, which involved plans for the "transfer" or removal (aka 1948 Nakba is the ethnic cleansing) of Palestinian Arabs by Zionists) of the indigenous Palestinian population to create a Jewish majority. Herzl himself suggested strategies to encourage the emigration of Palestinians, viewing their displacement as necessary for the success of the Zionist project.

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