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In reply to the discussion: How about Dems abandoning the Abandon Harris supporters [View all]JustAnotherGen
(33,834 posts)17. These folks have an uphill climb
Getting black women to vote for Palestinians over the horrors that are going to be inflicted on our community - here since 1619, leading movements, taking all of the shit sandwiches that AmeriKKKa has consistently thrown at us.
Like - if I have to choose between making sure they don't forcibly sterilize the young people in my family and Americans who are Muslim/Arab being rounded up -
I'm going to take care of my own family.
They have done this to Black Americans before. 5 of my great nieces (age 6 months to 15) are half latina.
https://bpr.studentorg.berkeley.edu/2020/11/04/americas-forgotten-history-of-forced-sterilization/
Throughout the 20th century, nearly 70,0000 people (overwhelmingly working-class women of color) were sterilized in over 30 states. Black women, Latina women, and Native American women were specifically targeted. From the 1930s to the 1970s, nearly one-third of the women in Puerto Rico, a U.S. territory, were coerced into sterilization when government officials claimed that Puerto Ricos economy would benefit from a reduced population. Sterilization was so common that it became known as La Operación (The Operation) among Puerto Ricans.
I can't do both. It's not a reasonable request to ask me to care for others before the beautiful girls I share DNA with. Not a thing. Not happening.
It's happened to us before - and those folks that admitted to voting for Trump have a long row to hoe before they will get my empathy, care, or concern.
It didn't have to be this way.
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Before making assumptions, I want to see some convincing evidence that they might be willing to fight the rightwingers.
Beastly Boy
Thursday
#77
They are pathetic, uninformed people who apparently have no idea of American policy towards...
brush
Thursday
#129
I don't see how reducing the number of Democratic votes will help anything.
Think. Again.
Thursday
#97
Except that we're talking about people that apparently aren't Democratic votes. They have their own little party.
Walleye
Thursday
#101
Except that we're talking about people that apparently aren't Democratic votes. They have their own little party.
Walleye
Thursday
#102
Nor sure about the OP, but many people, not only those addressed in the OP, will certainly be unhappy to hear this
Beastly Boy
Thursday
#115
OP as in "Original Poster", whom you referred to, the OP whose happiness or displeasure with my post I am not sure of
Beastly Boy
Thursday
#118
I foresee a great number of opportunities ahead where all this shit won't amount to a tinker's damn
EYESORE 9001
Thursday
#5
Their choice will cost more Palestinian lives both daily and in the long term.
sarisataka
Thursday
#33
Trump never deviated from his alliance with Netanyahu and Christian Nationalists
delisen
Thursday
#24
Karma. They are going to find out all the good that they did, and think about doing it again.
usonian
Thursday
#68
Notice how all the protests ended as soon as Trump won? They got what they wanted!
LeftInTX
Thursday
#127
These "Uncommitted to Reality, Abandon all Common Sense and Reason" episodes of The Trump Show are fabulous!
betsuni
Thursday
#132
Some day, far into the future, we will learn that this is/was Putin Op modeled after so many others in the past
msfiddlestix
16 hrs ago
#136