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The new “progressive” movement is anti-Black. Justice Democrats were founded by NIBPOC uprooted as a punishment to Black voters when the majority didn’t fall in line behind their magic grandpa Bernie Sanders in the 2016 election.
Justice Democrats (JD) make constant attempts to invalidate election results decided by Black voters
-Thinks SC primary should be excluded because Black voters are “low information”
-Insisted Bernie was “cheated”
-Constantly devalues Pres Obama’s popularity and signature ACA
-Thinks SC primary should be excluded because Black voters are “low information”
-Insisted Bernie was “cheated”
-Constantly devalues Pres Obama’s popularity and signature ACA
Co-opted term “progressive” for economic centered white adjacency. Labels anyone not on the Bernie train as “centrist” and “neoliberal.”
As WHIP Clyburn says here, he’s also a progressive. “How are you going to look at me and say I’m not progressive?”
As WHIP Clyburn says here, he’s also a progressive. “How are you going to look at me and say I’m not progressive?”
Colonized the Black Lives Matter movement. Constant attempt to create new hashtags to decenter Blackness
-Justice In Policing became about who wore kente cloth
-When Muriel Bowser had Black Lives Matter scribed on the street in DC, gentrifiers rushed in to add Defund the Police https://twitter.com/dougmillsnyt/status/1269626718983159808
-Justice In Policing became about who wore kente cloth
-When Muriel Bowser had Black Lives Matter scribed on the street in DC, gentrifiers rushed in to add Defund the Police https://twitter.com/dougmillsnyt/status/1269626718983159808
Refuse to acknowledge the actual base of the Democratic Party is Black voters, led by majority voting bloc of Black women.
AOC’s tweet #EmbraceTheBase actually Erases the Base. Did not center Black women/voters who overwhelmingly rejected Bernie.
Harpo, who dis?
AOC’s tweet #EmbraceTheBase actually Erases the Base. Did not center Black women/voters who overwhelmingly rejected Bernie.
Harpo, who dis?
Nonstop attempts to devalue VP Elect Kamala Harris
-Saw her as a threat against Bernie so labeled her “as a cop” in 2017
-Attempted to de-Black her
-Already running against her
-Did not want to celebrate history election so changed subject to M4All
-Saw her as a threat against Bernie so labeled her “as a cop” in 2017
-Attempted to de-Black her
-Already running against her
-Did not want to celebrate history election so changed subject to M4All
So for those who can’t quite figure out why many of us aren’t traipsing behind a sassy Latina from the Bronx with zero work to show while her only accomplishment is “telling it like it is” to Black elders who’ve lived this work, see tweet A. 
