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Good luck telling folks in Honduras or Iran or Libya or Syria, or black folks stuck in for-profit prisons because of laws she supported, that she gives a fuck about nonwhite people. There are many nonwhite Bernie or Bust folks.
I’d love to, but real quick - are you one of the nonwhite ones or the one of the white who is just basically telling me he has a black friend? Your blog makes me think you’re the latter but I don’t wanna make assumptions.
As for all the places you just stated… Where was your outrage four years ago when Obama ran? I mean, maybe you didn’t notice this but Clinton served as HIS Secretary of State, she wasn’t just some loose canon running around the White House making unilateral decision when it came to foreign affairs, she was his representative to the international community who carried out HIS agenda. Moreover, you do realize that Bernie’s home state, where he served as both a representative and a senator since 1990, has some of the most regressive for-profit prison systems in the United States, right? They have so many for-profit prisons that they ship prisoners out of state to other for-profit prisons when they have a surplus, which is known to put a ton of stress on the families of incarcerated individuals because they can’t visit and calling long distance is expensive. Who am I kidding though, of course you knew that because you Bernie or Bust fuckers are just soooo much more enlightened than the rest of us.
Look, there is a monumental difference between the Democratic and Republican agenda, if you can’t see that then it isn’t because it isn’t there it’s because you are being willfully ignorant of that fact. Is it everything you ever dreamed of? No, but you don’t get to throw a temper tantrum and say “let it all burn” because you didn’t get exactly your way. Change takes time and come November you can either act like a petulant child throwing a temper tantrum, or you can grow the fuck up, recognize the tremendous danger that your self righteous absolutist rhetoric is putting people in, and vote to save the lives of god knows how many people who might suffer or die as a consequence of that fascist cheeto puff taking over.
Listen to people of color who are almost begging for Bernie or Bust voters to see reason, it’s not because everyone thinks HRC is a dream candidate, it’s because people in vulnerable and marginalized positions know what Trump’s rhetoric leads and they are trying to prevent it at all costs. If you’re voting for a third party then you simply aren’t an ally to people of color.
In the U.K., the headlines note the passing of a “Dances With Wolves actor.”
But appearing in an Oscar-award-winning film was one of the least interesting things David Bald Eagle ever did.
Bald Eagle died last Friday at 97. In his long, extraordinary life, he was a champion dancer — both ballroom and Lakota styles — a touring musician, a rodeo cowboy, a tribal chief, an actor, a stunt double, a war hero.
He danced with Marilyn Monroe. He drove race cars. He parachuted into the front lines at Normandy. He played professional baseball. He was a leader not just of his tribe, but of the United Native Nations. He was an advocate for Native people.
And he was a bridge between the past and present — a man who, in his childhood, heard stories from survivors of the Battle of Little Bighorn.
