Posted on 02/01/2019 10:18:45 AM PST by Jim Robinson
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says the nation’s “weird American Dream mythology” needs to change — particularly in the minds of “cisgendered” and poor white citizens.
The rising Democratic Party lawmaker from New York told the Intercept’s “Deconstructed” podcast this week that poor white people need to accept that they “benefit” from their skin color, and more so if they identify as their birth sex.
“I find the solutions for white communities to be very painful because it’s very painful for a community to understand and have to go through this — like, you can be — the idea that you can be poor and benefit from the color of your skin does not compute for a lot of people,” she said Monday. “And going through that realization is very painful or even just economically for people that were born with silver spoons. It’s very painful to admit that you had advantages.”
The lawmaker then pivoted to gender politics and the “really hard” decision for Americans to admit “some privilege … of some type.” “I’m a cisgendered woman,” she said. “I will never know the trauma of feeling like I’m not born in the right body. And that is a privilege that I have, no matter how poor my family was when I was born...
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The biggest advantage is having parents who were married before you were conceived and who stayed married at least through your late teens. Add in a father who was consistently employed - at any job, and the chances of growing up in poverty drops to single digits for white and black folk alike.
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Look at what Trump did taking over the GOP. It was so much more practical - and economical - for him to just execute a hostile takeover rather than attempt to build something from scratch. Well, so too the DNC. They've gone so crazy, what with planned murderhood and the ilk, that a Democrat style Trump is waiting, somewhere out there in the wings, to swoop in and grab the prize.
And what will nuts like big lungs OC do about it? Well, she and her cis sisterhood (yes, I did assume her gender) will react no differently than the GOPe when Trump seized control. That is, freak out, act out, and eventually leave the party. BFD.
“Post-racial..??”
Obama is by far the most enigmatic liar to achieve the highest-office in the world, IMHO.
The United States has not been the same since he showed up.
What you are seeing today, and ALL during his “reign” are very bad omens.
But, that’s JMHO. YMMV
If the Rapture doesn’t happen soon, and I mean very soon, then we are headed toward massive civil unrest and a lot of bloodshed.
I agree, brother. Though that is likely the result immediately afterwards.
And this kind of insanity is world-wide. It’s definitely not just in America (as I should have pointed out).
Slow down on the bong honey.
She’s not blind either - so unfair.
Lucky you! Boston University is a terrible school. Ocasio-Cortez level thinking is what students learn there, and of course the need to put the word "like" in every sentence.
1st Thessalonians 5:3 King James Version (KJV)
3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
Every time she opens her huge mouth, she creates more fodder for our side.
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