Day: January 18, 2016

What's it like to be a non-white person at a Trump Fascism Rally?

“So a person came up to me and said, ‘Aren’t you the wrong color to be here?’”

I'm white, so I never really had the experience of what it must be like to be a minority, any minority, let alone grow up with that experience as an everyday experience. Reading this article gives you an insight into how horrible that experience can be, and how evil it is reinforce that feeling through statements like that above. I really hate white people sometimes.

In honor of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., one of our best Americans, I present his last speech to the world. You might not have ever heard it. It is a long speech. And you've never heard it. Listen to the first five minutes and the last two. You owe it to yourself to listen to it, at least those 7 minutes. These are his last words to the world. The morning after this speech he is killed.

Bernie Sanders took on the role of front runner tonight, fielding attacks from Hillary Clinton all night. It is the role that she is most comfortable in. Clinton destroyed Sanders on gun control and finally found an argument to counter Sanders on single payer healthcare: the embrace of the most popular Democrat alive, President Obama, and his signature policy achievement, Obamacare. Clinton spent the entire night trying to convince Democrats she was the heir to President Obama’s legacy. She made clear she is running for Obama’s third term. It’s a smart strategy because it serves the double-purpose of implying that Sanders is less friendly to Obama. Clinton was effective, presidential and the clear winner of the debate. Sanders had his moments, especially railing against Wall Street and he did ding Hillary on speaking fees she had received from Goldman Sachs. But in order to help himself in the primary, he needs to take his trademark anger and shouting and direct it towards Republicans rather than Hillary. Aside from some Progressives who hate Hillary more than they hate Republicans (and thus already support Sanders), Democrats are not angry with Hillary. They like her a lot, actually. No, they, we, are angry with Republicans, for a whole host of reasons. To win the primary, Bernie needs to win the votes of Democrats who like Hillary. So he cannot really attack her and should not direct his anger towards her. Which is why he was smart to back away from his comments on Bill Clinton. No, what Bernie needs to do is convince Democrats that he is the one to take on Republicans.