Actual KKK members with an actual burning cross
Gather ’round, Angry Black Readers. There’s an elephant in the Democratic Party room, and no, I am not referring to a Republican spy, though I wish I were. I’m talking about racism and race and, yes, I know it’s an uncomfortable topic among us liberals. Racism in the GOP? We can talk about that freely because it’s so damn blatant and ugly. Plus, it’s them doing the racializing, so there’s none of our own skin in the game. We can judge from a distance and feel smugly superior because we are above chimp pics and questioning whether that Kenyan Islo-Fascist Mooooslim was born in America or not, despite all evidence that PBO was, indeed, born in the United States (Hawaii, is a state, despite what some rightwingers believe). Oh, yes, there is racism on the right, but we, we the members of the Democratic Party, we are post-racial and all that shit ‘coz we elected the black guy and watch Oprah and listen to Jay-Z. WE would never hunt at a place called Niggerhead* or carve a backwards B on our cheeks and say a black supporter of Obama did it. WE are above all that!
Or not. I, myself have written twice on the subject of racism in the Democratic Party for my Angry Black Overlady. In fact, my first piece for the blog addressed the issue, even before I introduced myself. I know! How brass and bold of me. My second piece on race and the left, a frank open letter to white liberals, caused quite the kerfuffle on the Twitter Machine, and I pretty much decided that I wouldn’t write about race and racism in the Democratic Party any longer. It’s frustrating as hell to have your supposed allies deny your reality or attack you for stating your truth. I rather take on the right, thankyewverymuch. However, there has been an escalation of the bullshit lately, and I’m not one to keep quiet for very long, so, here I am again, opening my big mouth about the icky subject of race and the Democratic Party.
As most of you probably know, Melissa Harris-Perry wrote a thoughtful, nuanced post about how race may be a factor in why some white liberals are turning on President Obama. As I read her piece, I nodded my head in silent agreement. Her last paragraph really resonated within me:
President Obama has experienced a swift and steep decline in support among white Americans–from 61 percent in 2009 to 33 percent now. I believe much of the decline may be attributed to their disappointment that choosing a black man for president did not prove to be salvic for them or the nation. His record is, at the very least, comparable to that of President Clinton, who was enthusiastically re-elected. The 2012 election is a test of whether Obama will be held to standards never before imposed on an incumbent. If he is, it may be possible to read the that result as the triumph of a more subtle form of racism.
To me, there isn’t anything especially controversial about this conclusion. Note, Professor Harris-Perry does not say that such an outcome would mean that racism, subtle or not, is the definitive cause. No, she is saying it’s possible. And, quite frankly, to many POC, it’s more than just possible. However, from the shitstorm that broke out after her piece was published, you would have thought she said that members of the PL are House Niggers** or something truly heinous like that. PLs of all colors called her out. Well, actually, mostly white PLs called her out, along with their supporters.
The most egregious, however, was from Salon.com contributor, Gene Lyons who managed to be both sexist and racist in his response to Harris-Perry. Brief history, he’s an actual Democrat who doesn’t like the current GOP; he was a Clinton supporter; and he’s been pretty down on the president for much of PBO’s tenure. That said, he was actually defending Obama in the piece I’m about to cite. Yet, he bizarrely starts by attacking Harris-Perry’s piece on race, calling her a fool. He completely dismisses the notion that there may be any racial component to the next election. He’s loutish and uncouth and, frankly, unconvincing, even as he passionately states his position. However, the paragraph that really pissed me the fuck off was this one:
Furthermore, unless you’re black, you can’t possibly understand. Yada, yada, yada. This unfortunate obsession increasingly resembles a photo negative of KKK racial thought. It’s useful for intimidating tenure committees trained staffed by Ph.D.s trained to find racist symbols in the passing clouds. Otherwise, Harris-Perry’s becoming a left-wing Michele Bachmann, an attractive woman seeking fame and fortune by saying silly things on cable TV.
I helpfully bolded all the racist/sexist/dumbass bullshittery in the paragraph to make it stand out from the rest of the writing. Yes, if you aren’t black or another minority, you can’t know what it’s like to be a racial minority in this country. I really don’t fucking get why that is so hard to grasp or why it’s so offensive. Actually, I do. It’s about privilege and the belief that one’s own experience is all one needs to know. If someone else has a different experience? Eh. An anomaly. Shrug it off. There are very little consequences for a white person who does not the reality for people of color. Most people of color know this in their bones. And yet, to simple state it is heresy. The yada, yada, yada bit only added to the offense by being so dismissive about, oh, you know, racism and shit.
Michele Bachmann, scaring little children as a good clown should
Some white liberals are outraged at the mere suggestion that a person of color would know his/her reality better than the white person does. It’s part of the same sense of entitlement that lets white liberals (and by white liberals, I mean the ones who have a problem with race, but I don’t want to say that every time, so I’m shortening it to white liberals, which I know will cause some white liberals to cry foul, but if you think I’m talking about you, I probably am) demand that people of color talk about racism in the way they feel comfortable about. No shouting, no anger, no pointing out blame–no showing the racism in the Democratic Party, no, no, no. It’s the same entitlement that allows a white liberal to move goalposts as to what is actually racism and what isn’t. It’s that same entitlement that allows a white liberal to actually believe that s/he is more able to tell what is and isn’t racism than a person of color is.
Riddle me this. I have never been nor currently am a working class person. How would working class liberals feel if I said, “Oh, you don’t know about poverty and economic hardship. Let ME tell you about poverty!” Or if I got impatient after being told about the economic disparity in our country and said, “Well, you know, that sucks, but what can I do about it?” Or if a working class liberal poured out her heart about how hard it is for her to deal with her job because people look down on her for being a dumb hick, even the union people, and I tell her, “Don’t be silly. There’s no such thing as discrimination against working class people in the unions or in the Democratic Party!”
Stupid, I know. If I said that at a Democratic Party meeting, I would be booed mercilessly, and rightfully so. So why the fuck is the issue of race and racism on the left being treated as if it’s taboo?
You know, fuck Gene Lyons. I’ve already given him more headspace than he deserves. He’s been taken down already. Here is one of my favorites by Elon James White, and it’s brilliant. If you want to torture yourself, you can read more Lyons here and here, but really, he’s just another old white man who thinks his opinion is sacrosanct and anyone who dares question it is, in his words, a fool.
Tim Wise did a whole lecture on the subject of white privilege (and, of course, he writes about it as well), of which I posted part 3. In that clip, he talks about white liberals and racism. In the first section, he says:
I am not standing in front of you, and you are not listening to me because I am the most informed person in the country on racism or white privilege. Not because I am the best speaker on those subjects. I am fairly good, and I intend to demonstrate that to you amply in the next hour. It is not because I am the best writer on the subject, though I am OK with that as well. It is, instead, because I, and I know this, fit the aesthetic that is needed on too many campuses and too many communities around the country in order to come in and to give this talk. Nothing that I am going to say tonight, or at least very little, originated in my head. Nothing or at least very little of what I say tonight is, in fact, new.
Almost every single thing that I’m going to say this evening is wisdom that has been shared with me either patiently or sometimes, not so patiently, by people of color who have, in almost every instance, forgotten more about the subjects of racism and white privilege since breakfast yesterday than I will likely ever know. And yet, they will not be asked to give 85 engagements around the country this year or next on the subject. Not because they have not the wisdom to do it, but because privilege, the subject that I’ll deal with tonight, bestows upon me that advantage. And so, as a matter of responsibility and accountability, I have to own that upfront so that when you go away from this this evening thinking to yourself, “My goodness, that was good,” and I’m sure–that’s my subliminal way to tell you you’re going to think it’s just great.
And when you go away from here thinking that I have filled your heads with all this great knowledge and wisdom, please know that it is not mine. And the next time you hear it from a person of color, the next time it is shared with you, for those in the audience particularly who are white, the next time it is shared with you by a person of color as it will be and as it has been in one form or another, please listen to it. And please know that it’s from that source that I get virtually all of my material. We will know that we have made progress only on that day when a person of color can get up and give the talk I’m about to give and be taken half as seriously as I expect to be taken.
Tim Wise did this lecture before Barack Obama was elected president. It is on point today. You really should watch the whole thing. He knows that he can say shit about race that people of color can’t–or at least can’t without taking a hell of a lot of heat for it. Yeah, he takes heat for it, too–he’s gotten death threats–but he’s getting paid to be an expert on race and racism. I haven’t seen the PL go after Tim Wise with the sound and fury that they did in going after Harris-Perry. I haven’t seen the indignation, the condescension (OT, I often get that word mixed up with condensation. How embarrassing!), the absolute shit-fits thrown that I have seen with Harris-Perry. For some reason, it’s effrontery for Harris-Perry to dare suggest there might be a racial-factor to whites supporting Obama, yet, when Tim Wise says it: crickets.
So, to all the white liberals who deny there is racism in our party or who accuse POC of being the real/reverse racists, let me tell it to you straight: Many of us POC have been unwavering supporters of the Democratic Party since the day we could vote. Some of us, me included, are wondering why some of you are giving up on this president or turning on him less than three years into his term, being disrespectful to him and saying how he’s disappointed you. Hell, some of you started barking even before he was sworn in, and you haven’t stopped yet. Racism may not be the only factor***, but those of us who have lived with racism know it when it’s happening, and it’s happening now. If you keep attacking us for pointing out the racism in our party, then to me, you are acting like the fool–and you are not my ally.
P.S. I actually had other shit to say about race and racism in the Democratic Party and being Asian American, but it’ll have to wait for Part II.
*Yeah, Rick Perry, I’m looking at you.
**Per usual, I link to a link talking about it rather than directly link.
***That’s another blog post for another day.
It’s an ongoing supremacy issue. As much as so-called “identity politcs” has been trashed in the past few years, white identity as the natural superiors of all is the originary “identity politics” in the US and it’s showing zero signs of subsiding.
A lot of whites of every political stripe CAN.NOT.STAND.IT when people they deem beneath than them determine and articulate our own reality.
With or without them. It’s very threatening, so we see a lot of people acting out.
But this is because people don’t know any history, including their own. The idea still persists on the white left, that without white buy-in we’d still be on the plantation and shunted off into -towns. That, too, is an idea based in the same old self-important white supremacy.
I suppose what I do not understand is, we’ve been dealing with this attitude for how many generations on this continent? Yet, they’re still sad and confused and the newest victims of “racism” because their behavior gets critiqued in public.
It’s only new to them. The kind of race hysteria we are seeing now happens in every generation and it’s in fact been much worse. It’s not new to us by any stretch. That idea alone — that we posess knowledge that they do not, makes people very nervous — and very angry. It undermines that identity as everyone’s natural superiors in a way that is undeniable.
OhCrap, I agree with you that for some white liberals, the notion that we will keep pressing on with or without them is threatening. And, as Kerry mentioned downthread, some of them consciously or subconsciously get resentful when POC (or women or whatever) don’t show the proper gratitude for their help.
I think having a black president has brought a lot of the latent racism and racial resentment to the surface, and it’s going to get worse before it gets better.
I can see the racism, or rather hear it. The constant chatter that President Obama is “vague, too willing to compromise, weak or ineffective,” etc. – - never quite good enough. Originally I thought others could not hear it or didn’t realize the depth of damage it can cause.
I think that 60+ year olds have failed to educate the younger generations. The Civil Rights movement in this country was massively more than speeches by Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. and public marches. Racism didn’t end with the Civil Rights Act. If that is how current textbooks portray this country’s history, then they must be rewritten because racism is ignorance.
Younger Americans didn’t see students their own age trying to get off a bus to go into school and being spit on because of the color of their skin. They didn’t see homes and churches set on fire because of the skin color of the people who lived and worshipped there. I saw these things on television news and I know it was after the Civil Rights Act of 1964. How many people know that after the riots in Watts no emergency vehicle used lights or sirens on calls to that area for fear of inciting riots? Can we imagine how long it took an ambulance to drive across town in Los Angeles traffic with no lights or sirens?
I read one of the responses to Mr. Lyons’ article attacking Melissa Harris-Perry. Given the time and the elite school he attended clarified why he felt privileged enough to criticize her questioning the possibility of racism. He wanted to attribute everything she has achieved to something handed to her for free or through some affirmative action gift. For any of us with some memory of this country’s history of the 1960′s, it reflected a familiar hateful attitude.
I am caucasian so I cannot possibly share the vision and experiences of people of color. But I know what I saw on television news in the 60′s and it was horrible.
I apologize for the length of my post. I hope it’s not too late to educate. The ignorance has existed far too long.
Linda, I welcome all comments as long as they are at relevant and thoughtful, or at the very least, funny. And, as you can tell, I am not shy at expressing myself at length.
I see more of the racism in the older white people who are reeling from how fast the world is changing. The old-school liberals who can’t quite adapt to the fact that this is not your grandfather’s party, or even your mother’s party. I can sympathize with that, but it’s also sad because to open oneself to a more diverse world is to realize a richer life.
No. Thank you for what you wrote. We really appreciate it, Linda.
“We will know that we have made progress only on that day when a person of color can get up and give the talk I’m about to give and be taken half as seriously as I expect to be taken.”
Aye.
Good article and good posts.
It needs to be said – and taken in
I was originally saying that race was only on the right, but there may be something in the way people are acting towards Obama from the left. I first thought it was just favoring an intangible utopia over progress, but later I started questioning. Obama had made mistakes, but it was like there was no middle analysis because many presidents, even the great ones, made mistakes. You either had to be absolutely the perfect liberal president, or you were lame. Everything he did was either bad or not good enough. There was the unrealistic expectation that everything would happen in a revolution.
I knew that race was a factor on the Left, but it took a while for me to realize just how pervasive it was. I was, like you, attributing a lot of it to favoring an intangible utopia. That still is a part of it – a lot of these people are used to instant gratification – but the more you look at their writings, the more it becomes obvious that a major motivating factor is the President’s race.
The sense of entitlement, the privileged attitude is unfortunately rather common. Rather than listening, they’re telling, and then wondering why people are mad at them.
Norbrook, I am actually ruminating over the other factors that you mentioned. When I can make them form a coherent thought, I will write about that and the interplay of the factors.
Yep, that’s how racism manifests itself. You not just consider some people inferior, but you hold them to unrealistic expectations based on that believed inferiority. The basic assumption among some white liberals is that despite Obama’s education, experience, and intelligence, he is somehow not capable of doing the job (without white guidance – in particular – their guidance).
And here’s another indication of racism on the Left – when Hillary Clinton lost the nomination, some started throwing their support to John McCain. Why would they do that? In past years, these same people who have automatically thrown their support towards the Democratic nominee. And they certainly wouldn’t have supported the candidate from the opposing side(whose views differ greatly from both Obama’s or Clinton’s). Thank goodness this group wasn’t big enough to thwart Obama’s campaign, but after seeing that, there was no denying, in my eyes, that there was a problem on the Left.
Well said and I absolutely agree with it. It’s bad enough the “empty suit/not quite bright enough” bullshit comes from the right, but the snide “Do Dems have buyer’s remorse over Obama/Shoulda picked Hillary Clinton!” crap is really starting to burn my biscuits.
CNN in fact is playing the “Shoulda picked Hillary!” game this morning. I believe I may have something to say about that later today.
But an excellent post. Extraordinary, really. Especially with me distracting you on Twitter with Alan Rickman.
Alan Rickman…drooooool….(and thanks).
I suspect that to a fair extent, it’s the product of the intersection of demographics and a majoritarian political/social structure, filtered through the sad and seemingly inevitable ignorance our society seems to cultivate.
I know, it’s hardly a groundbreaking insight, still, it’s all I have right now.
The cartoonist Dan Clowes (of “Ghost World” fame) did a great piece years ago in his series Eightball, featuring an old obnoxious Berkeley sixties burnout, Peace Bear, and his teenage acolyte, Hippy Pants, hanging out on Telegraph Avenue and bitching about — well, everything. But the line that stands out for me as representative of white leftie privilege and revisionist history is when Peace Bear talks about how his generation never got enough respect, even though “We got equal rights for chicks and blacks!”
So yeah — a lot of white liberals like having grateful black people around who will appreciate how good and liberal and wonderful they are. (“The Help” phenomenon.) But if people of color or women dare to presume that maybe they have better ideas about how to counter discrimination than white dudes, then they’re just ungrateful idiots.
I also think there is a generational component. Some Boomers just can’t stand the idea that the only presidents they got to have were Clinton and Bush — neither of whom really embodies those vaunted sixties ideas. So when the younger black guy (yes, Obama is Boomer, but barely) shows up, gets shit done, and doesn’t seem interested in kissing the rings (or asses) of the insular Boomer leftie commentariat, they get all pissy.
Just sayin’, but have Lyons brought his own heritage out in one of those articles linked above.
Have you noticed the common link in the biggest and snarkiest mouths amongst the Professional Left getting racist in subtle ways about the President and people of colour:-
Gene Lyons, Joan Walsh, Bill Maher, Michael Moore, Chris Matthews, Maureen Dowd … the Irish Daddy Syndrome.
Yes, the Irish were treated lower than low by the British when they were living in Ireland. The abounding difference is this: They came to America, where there was a demographic lower than they – people of colour. The Irish hated the thought of freed slaves coming North, because they would be cheaper labour. The Irish assimilated readily – look how much influence they accumulated in law enforcement and the politics of New York and Massachusetts. There were scores of other racial demographics upon which they could look condescendingly – the African Americans, the Mediterranean Europeans, the Jews, the Chinese immigrants …
I hear the same whine in Lyons’s writings that I do in Joan Walsh’s. I wonder why?
I expect that there is a problem on the left ( not that what passes for the left nowadays is anything like what it was); part of it is favoring an intangible utopia or wanting everything now.
Another factor is race; it is not the obvious prjudice that is undeniable. It is a kind of paternalism, that people can deny to themselves.
Here what sums up the endless whining from Obama loyalists: white liberals should never criticize Obama — regardless of intentions and how valid said criticisms may be — because it gives the mere appearance of racism and “white superiority,” and that only those with at least one black parent are “qualified” to have an opinion on this biracial president and his policies. Of course, even non-white critics of BHO are not going to spared loyalist scorn and contempt. They will end up being referred to as a bunch of “Uncle Toms/Aunt Jemimas” for siding with the “racist” white liberals/progressives and that they are culpable for “giving aid and comfort to the enemy” a.k.a the Tea Party. (Where have we heard this before?)
The O-bots will spin almost anything to fit their false narratives and absolve the object of their worship of any wrongdoing.
You must be new here. Point out where ABL or MHP said that any criticism of Obama is racism. I’ll give you a hint to get started: they didn’t.
Folks here always gesture to the notion that criticism of Obama does not necessarily equal racism, but there’s never any real distinction between the two. That’s how legitimate, reasoned critiques of the president’s record become “white people talk down to black president”, a theme echoed all the time in ABL’s posts as well as the commments here.
Because I don’t appreciate even the insinuation that my dissatisfaction with the president is linked to unarticulated racist beliefs, can you please at least attempt to make that distinction? When is criticizing the president okay? When is it not racist? How can I make my intense displeasure with this administration clear, without being called a racist?
My feeling is that if you’ve given good-faith, thorough consideration to these conversations, but feel your critiques aren’t motivated in any way by racially-tinged expectations, you don’t need to assume the criticism applies to you.
To me, as a white person on the Left, what’s most important in these discussions is to avoid becoming reflexively defensive — that’s usually a huge “tell” in discerning which white libs aren’t getting it.
Putting aside the natural, reflexive desire to defend yourself against shame/reproach isn’t easy, but it’s necessary because it can actually block your ability to have the empathy and patience you’ll need for full understanding.
Look, if you’re genuinely interested in better understanding what this is all about, and NOT exclusively in defending your pride from reproach, I can give a first-hand, personal recommendation to the enlightening messages offered by Tim Wise (video example above), and from reading Derailing for Dummies, just for starters.
When You’ve got Micchael Moore saying things like: “When I went to the polls, I voted for a black guy, but instead I got a white guy.” or “I voted for Surge Knight, not Wayne Brady.” Can I also point out that there wasn’t this level of looking onto one’s shoulders when Clinton repealed Glass-Seagal, signed DADT rather than full open service for gays and lesbians, signed DOMA into law, eliminated Welfare, Signed nafta into law, etc.? Can you also explain why this president from time to time on blogs has been called an “Uncle Tom”? There is also a disrespectful tone that has never been used against a Democrat before.
Michael Moore’s behavior during Obama’s administration has been a tremendous disappointment to me. I fully expected Moore to judge Obama’s leadership as “too centrist” or “too accommodating to the right wing,” so that part doesn’t surprise or particularly upset me. It’s the ways that Moore has chosen to characterize President Obama in his presidency — for me, it’s simply unforgivable. (Okay, I would’ve forgiven him if, after saying offensive stuff, he had demonstrated that he understood why his characterizations were so offensive, instead of lamely defending himself and digging further.) I’ll never get over what I’ve seen exposed in Michael Moore — as well as other liberal “icons.”
Rory:
Thanks but no thanks.
Have a nice day
Rory, this is your only warning. The next time you come here just to fling shit or hurl “O-bot” and don’t have anything relevant to say in reference to my actual post, I will delete your comment. The time after that, you will be banned.
asiangrrlMN
AsiangrrlMN, I love your posts on this subject. The personal way you approach the subject is very appealing to me–your style makes it easy for me (a middle-aged white lady) to understand precisely how you experience all the implications packed into things said to you (and POCs generally) by white liberals.
All my life I have been in relationships with POCs whom I dearly love, and it’s hurtful and unspeakably frustrating for me to deal with this subject–it makes me crazy to imagine how it must feel to the POCs I love. And I’ve learned to never assume I can know how it feels to them. As recently as last month, a POC who’s very close to me commented about the looks/stares she and I were receiving from white people watching us as we were out and enjoying ourselves together. We’ve known each other since we were babies, and our familiarity and ease with each other is something I take for granted. She noticed that more than a few white onlookers seemed to be surprised/ill-at-ease with it. Here’s the thing: she noticed it and it bothered her a little, but she said “oh, it happens all the time and I just shrug it off;” But I hadn’t noticed any of it.
I recently had an exchange with a lefty commenter on Joy-Ann’s blog (The Reid Report) in which I attempted to engage a dismissive liberal. I summoned a great deal of restraint and attempted to patiently explain the dynamics at work in the Left’s current race relations impasse, but nothing seemed to penetrate. The only hope I have left of that exchange rests on my effort to avoid expressing anger, which could potentially shift focus from the issue to my anger (I guess POCs are all too familiar with this method). Perhaps the exchange will induce a delayed reflection in this person.
If you’re interested, you can read the exchange in the comments section here.
Aw, thanks, Beulahmo. I am old enough to know to go with my strengths when I can, and I do my best when I write conversationally.
I read the exchange you had with the commentator over at the Grio, and all I can do is sigh and shrug. That is a fairly common response, and if she isn’t even willing to entertain that MHP had a point, well, there’s nothing you can do to change her mind. I do respect the fact that you keep trying and that you never resort to sarcasm or snark (as I would).
Just want to say there are so many good, thought-provoking contributions to this comment thread that I’m frustrated at my time/concentration/energy constraints which prevent me from engaging them to the degree that they deserve.
So I decided to take a short-cut and address some of them briefly in one half-assed, lazy comment!
Agrippa, the Left’s morphing into its current state as a gaggle of petulant, self-aggrandizing, and ultimately impotent coterie, increasingly perceived as more impractical than idealistic, is great fodder for in-depth discussion.
Marianna76, your comment about the possible influence of ingrained ethnic attitudes (characterized by the dynamics played out among other marginalized groups) is very intriguing!
KerryReid, “…they’re just ungrateful idiots.” You know, that’s the pervasive, common implied tone I get from the professional left — white and black (Smiley & West, Incorporated) — that alerted me to the ugly racism playing out. It’s this attitude: “We helped you, the Black Guy, get elected! How dare you refuse to give us due deference??” They remind me of the Popular Pretty Girl in college who deigns to date the Shy Awkward Guy. Doesn’t he understand he’s obligated to kiss ass in return?? “Like omigod, ferrealz, y’all–it’s like he just totally dissed our obvious differentials in social power!”
Zandar, “…the snide “Do Dems have buyer’s remorse over Obama/Shoulda picked Hillary Clinton!” crap is really starting to burn my biscuits. Mine too. In fact, when Keith Olbermann pulled that crap while he was still on MSNBC, I stopped watching him. I still can’t watch him.
Linda, please don’t apologize for the length of your comment–I enjoyed reading it.
OhCrap, “The kind of race hysteria we are seeing now happens in every generation and it’s in fact been much worse.” I admit it’s the first time I’ve actually considered the possibility that we’re regressing. But I’m also thinking maybe it’s not that we’re actually losing ground but getting a clearer view of the pervasiveness of the limits on the progress we’ve made. I think the message of guys like Dr. Harris-Perry and Tim Wise are especially helpful in getting more of us (white libs) to understand and address those limits.
“I think the message of
guyspeople like Dr. Harris-Perry and Tim Wise are especially helpful…”Ugh. Fixed.
Beulahmo, I understand the sentiment.
I have lost interest in the navel gazing of ‘professional progressives’.
next person that claims I have ever equated fair criticism of Obama to racism is getting a Boston cream pie to the face-area.
Mylanta, that’s annoying as hell.
*coughJoanWalsh*