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Progressives lay out racial justice strategy to win over working-class whites
Yahoo ^ | July 19, 2019 | Jon Ward

Posted on 07/20/2019 9:26:26 PM PDT by GuavaCheesePuff

A few days before President Trump’s Twitter rant against four congresswomen of color, a few thousand progressives gathered in Philadelphia to hear speakers exhort them to make race a central issue in the 2020 election.

“We’ve got to center racial justice,” Rashad Robinson, the executive director of Color of Change, told the Netroots Nation conference. Robinson told the audience that “racial justice is a strategy for gaining power and winning power.”

Robinson represents a left wing of the party that wants to confront Trump’s demagoguery on race and identity head on, not shying away from the topic.

“Democrats for years tried to both mobilize and engage black voters and voters of color and tried to avoid conversations around race with white folks, and it just didn’t work,” he told Yahoo News in an interview a few days after his Netroots speech.

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1 posted on 07/20/2019 9:26:26 PM PDT by GuavaCheesePuff
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

So, MORE race hated directed at evil honkies?


2 posted on 07/20/2019 9:27:51 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

The left never tires of playing their favorite, albeit ragged, card.

3 posted on 07/20/2019 9:30:16 PM PDT by Boomer
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To: Army Air Corps

A little tweak on Twitter here, a little tweak there and viola. DJT sends to them to the moon Alice. Sweet!


4 posted on 07/20/2019 9:32:08 PM PDT by Equine1952 (Get yourself a ticket on a common mans train of thought. ))
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

Not gonna work.


5 posted on 07/20/2019 9:33:04 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

Read the comments people. Ignore the article.


6 posted on 07/20/2019 9:35:57 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Isn't it funny that the very people who scream "My body, my choice" wants a say in your healthcare?)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff
Is there a way for Democrats to talk about systemic racism in a way that actually wins over white voters rather than alienating them?

No.

To do so would require walking back at least 20 and more like 50 years of open, vicious hostility and a present ideology that insists on innate White Privilege that supposedly gives even a jobless white coal miner an advantage over a black millionaire. That can't be unsaid. These are the musings of racists looking for an advantageous lie. Too late for that.

7 posted on 07/20/2019 9:36:15 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Army Air Corps

The NEA goals for pre-k-16

https://illinoisfamily.org/education/wait-till-you-see-what-the-national-education-association-is-up-to/


8 posted on 07/20/2019 9:37:40 PM PDT by combat_boots (God bless Israel and all who protect and defend her! Merry Christmas! In God We Trust!)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

The progressive squad hates all Americans racist and oppressive “garbage people.” And it’s not only white Republicans. They’ve also got hateful things to say about black or brown Republicans too. And now they’re even calling democrats racist.

They see people of color only as useful idiots. Same goes for working class people. They say anyone who loves America is a racist piece of garbage.


9 posted on 07/20/2019 9:38:26 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
Read the comments people.

Holy crap. Has Yahoo turned into FR?

10 posted on 07/20/2019 9:39:28 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Billthedrill

I read them too. We should be thankful that it appears a great many Americans have woken up and are growing sick of the Democrat Party. The extreme left turn the Democrats have taken is turning off a lot of Americans, and they’re too arrogant and stupid to notice it.


11 posted on 07/20/2019 9:45:06 PM PDT by dowcaet
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To: GuavaCheesePuff
From poster Disatisfied:

"Here are six Conundrums of Socialism in the United States of America:
1. America is capitalist and greedy - yet half of the population is subsidized.
2. Half of the population is subsidized - yet they think they are victims.
3. They think they are victims - yet their representatives run the government.
4. Their representatives run the government - yet the poor keep getting poorer.
5. The poor keep getting poorer - yet they have things that people in other Countries only dream about.
6. They have things that people in other countries only dream about, yet they want America to be more like those other countries.
7. Think about it! And that, my friends, pretty much sums up the USA in the 21st Century.

Makes you wonder who is doing the math. By the way.....
1. We are advised to NOT judge ALL Muslims by the actions of a few lunatics, but we are encouraged to judge ALL gun owners by the actions of a few lunatics. Funny how that works. And here's another one worth considering...
2. Seems we constantly hear about how Social Security is going to run out of money. But we never hear about welfare or food stamps running out of money? What's interesting is the first group "worked for" their money, but the second didn't.

Think about it... especially during the elections."

12 posted on 07/20/2019 9:48:32 PM PDT by deadrock
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

Dennis Prager pointed out that qualifying “justice’ with the word “social” means the speaker intends neither. Communists such as Robinson hate whites, period. He’s following the Frankfurt School Marxist slime politics.


13 posted on 07/20/2019 9:55:09 PM PDT by Amberdawn
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

Progressives = commies


14 posted on 07/20/2019 10:15:58 PM PDT by Herakles (Diversity is applied Marxism!)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

Democrats are in trouble so they pander to poor whites by acting concerned and then blaming the people and institutions they hate. What has changed is that they have acknowledged that poor whites can be victims. Will this gain them any votes? I don’t think as many as they hope for.


15 posted on 07/20/2019 10:28:29 PM PDT by Crucial
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To: Billthedrill

Shocking isnt’ it.


16 posted on 07/20/2019 10:32:00 PM PDT by funfan
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

17 posted on 07/20/2019 10:57:58 PM PDT by Boomer
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

From the comments:

Disatisfied
Disatisfiedyesterday
Here are six Conundrums of Socialism in the United States of America:
1. America is capitalist and greedy - yet half of the population is subsidized.
2. Half of the population is subsidized - yet they think they are victims.
3. They think they are victims - yet their representatives run the government.
4. Their representatives run the government - yet the poor keep getting poorer.
5. The poor keep getting poorer - yet they have things that people in other Countries only dream about.
6. They have things that people in other countries only dream about, yet they want America to be more like those other countries.
7. Think about it! And that, my friends, pretty much sums up the USA in the 21st Century.
Makes you wonder who is doing the math. By the way.....
1. We are advised to NOT judge ALL Muslims by the actions of a few lunatics, but we are encouraged to judge ALL gun owners by the actions of a few lunatics. Funny how that works. And here’s another one worth considering...
2. Seems we constantly hear about how Social Security is going to run out of money. But we never hear about welfare or food stamps running out of money? What’s interesting is the first group “worked for” their money, but the second didn’t.
Think about it... especially during the elections.


18 posted on 07/20/2019 11:19:54 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BB0ndRzaz2o)
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To: deadrock

Funny.

In posted the same comment...


19 posted on 07/20/2019 11:21:00 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BB0ndRzaz2o)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

White people outside that convention hall are so tired of hearing how racist we are that I hope they do use race as their central theme. Only the self hating whites will buy it, the plan is a guarantee of disaster for the Dims.


20 posted on 07/20/2019 11:42:34 PM PDT by Midwesterner53
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