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History is repeating itself. After the Civil War, the North largely stood down (except for a soft Southern occupation thru 1876).
Former Confederates ratcheted up a campaign of massacres and terror. Not just the Klan, but new white supremacists groups: White League & Red Shirts.
Former Confederates ratcheted up a campaign of massacres and terror. Not just the Klan, but new white supremacists groups: White League & Red Shirts.
What I see right now is Democrats standing down and GOP-Proud Boys ratcheting up. Democrats started attacking progressive activists instead of stepping up with a strong campaign to address police violence and stop the Proud Boys and other groups looking to overturn the election.
Democrats are more interested in slogan bashing “defund the police” (thereby attacking its proponents) at every turn rather than confronting the surging threat of white supremacist violence, both from police and vigilante groups such as the Proud Boys.
When we talk about a reckoning over racism, we routinely leave out the Democratic Party as an institution that has a long and ugly history with racism. They don’t attack racism with any force because it’s a part of their DNA. Democrats must have an internal reckoning with racism.
Since the election, Democrats such as Obama, Biden, Manchin, Clyburn, and Mosby have all lambasted and targeted “defund the police.”
Have any of them spoken publicly since the election w/ any force re: Stop the Steal, Proud Boys, police violence, or disbanding police unions?
Have any of them spoken publicly since the election w/ any force re: Stop the Steal, Proud Boys, police violence, or disbanding police unions?
And I get the political expediency argument of “we need to win Georgia and thereby the Senate.” But 2 things:
1. This is silence on policing & white supremacy is emboldening groups like the Proud Boys.
2. It presumes Democrats are being strategic and this is not who they are.
1. This is silence on policing & white supremacy is emboldening groups like the Proud Boys.
2. It presumes Democrats are being strategic and this is not who they are.
History tells me that accommodating white supremacy is a failing strategy. It never works.
History also tells me that corporate Democrats have no interest in doing something serious about police violence and white supremacist vigilantes like the Proud Boys. So I’m not convinced.
History also tells me that corporate Democrats have no interest in doing something serious about police violence and white supremacist vigilantes like the Proud Boys. So I’m not convinced.
Here’s how we can know if I’m right or wrong. After the Georgia senate elections, if you see/hear those same Democrats say: “Ha, fooled y’all. We were just trying to win the Senate. Let’s get ready to defund police so we can finally fund Black neighborhoods,” then I’m wrong.
But if they don’t retract their statements and begin working with progressive activists, then this tells you that this is who they really are!
No ifs, ands, or buts about it.
No ifs, ands, or buts about it.
