tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post4121536665283917617..comments2023-10-24T09:06:30.200-04:00Comments on No More Mister Nice Blog: JOHN LEWIS'S CONSTITUENTS ARE INVISIBLE TO WHITE AMERICASteve M.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11963290427258439242noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-32794913837127149522017-01-16T20:45:12.454-05:002017-01-16T20:45:12.454-05:00Steve, I agree with your conclusion and reasoning....Steve, I agree with your conclusion and reasoning. <br />However, I sure wish we stop using memes like "Trump seems unbeatable". <br />It bugs me as much as seeing Repubs on TV get away with saying that Trump has a mandate and had an overwhelming <br />victory (with absolutely no push back from the hosts). <br />The electoral college in no way represents the choice of the American electorate.<br /> <br />He lost the popular vote to Clinton by 2.9 million votes and over 2.1%<br /><br />We should follow John Lewis' lead and continually question his legitimacy; <br />especially given the interference from the FBI (Comey and NY) and the Putin/Wikileaks duet. <br />All of a sudden TV commentators become concerned that questioning his legitimacy further divides the country. <br />Can't recall that concern for the Obama birther story. <br />Throw it back in the Repubs faces. It has the added effect of getting under DJT's notoriously thin skin.<br /><br />I think the Russian dossier (whether true or not) also offers an opportunity to push Trump's buttons <br />(Saturday's SNL show repeated often and propagated via social media will destroy any moral authority <br />or credibility that he might have.) Again, the MSM gave long term publicity to the Obama birther story <br />as ridiculous as it was. What's good for the goose. <br /><br />Finally, here's a good piece by Booman: "We Choose Whether Trump's Legitimate":<br /><br />http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2017/1/16/135425/746andydelinjchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13992683564309544504noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-32188076655675874332017-01-15T17:23:36.963-05:002017-01-15T17:23:36.963-05:00On the subject of invisibility and stereotypes.......On the subject of invisibility and stereotypes....<br /><br />I am vehemently on your side politically. I have cared deeply about racial and economic justice my entire life. So has my husband, who has practically been in a clinical depression since the election, even as we both try to figure out the most useful way to be politically engaged in the Trump era. It is not an exaggeration to say we love Obama deeply, despite disagreeing on some policy matters (like hiring Geitner) and that we are grateful for the very specific ways his policies helped our family economically. <br /><br />And we are white. Your headline, and your article, aren't the first to make the generalization that white = clueless Trump supporter, and certainly a plurality of whites did support him, but this kind of language, at this most horrifying of times politically, makes me feel alone and invisible in my grief and anger, when what I would like would be for people like you and me to stand together because we are going to need each other if we are going to get through this. <br />Melissahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06027214952484306461noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-28639246229660016612017-01-14T21:38:23.917-05:002017-01-14T21:38:23.917-05:00Trump thinks the urban world looks like the Death ...Trump thinks the urban world looks like the Death Wish movies.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-69432821764527214182017-01-14T14:23:59.410-05:002017-01-14T14:23:59.410-05:00t-RUMP's just playing to his base.
And in all...t-RUMP's just playing to his base.<br /><br />And in all "truthiness," his base knows pretty much what t-RUMP himself knows about black people and their neighborhoods:<br />They're miserable crime-ridden areas, as depicted on TV and in movies since... well, forever. All they know, is what they've seen there. They don't visit cities, and when/if they have to, they avoid the non-white areas. <br />And that's why them black folks is always wanting to be 'movin' on up, to the East Side."<br /><br />And, let's not talk about all of the "gentrification" going on in cities, forcing minorities out further to their cities fringes, or out into suburbia - and, perish the thought - Heartland Murka!!!<br /><br />If you grew-up in NYC, like I did in the 60's, you knew gangs were tough and bad - and that's not the realm of black gangs, exclusively. There were even tough Jewish gangs back then, if you lived or worked in the "wrong" neighborhoods.<br /><br />JAYZOOS!<br />These "people..."Victorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06609452382111686086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-3695608044962552872017-01-14T13:40:24.077-05:002017-01-14T13:40:24.077-05:00Invisibility is a characteristic of racism. One c...Invisibility is a characteristic of racism. One could make a list. Putting Sessions up for AG would be one of the top 10. Russian meddling in our election is clearly illegitimizing. That's just the deal, and just as Watergate illegitimized Nixon. Fiddlin Billhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08083633111240927563noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-88399356309915014382017-01-14T13:12:40.762-05:002017-01-14T13:12:40.762-05:00John Lewis represents Buckhead- the Beverly Hills ...John Lewis represents Buckhead- the Beverly Hills of Atlanta, full of multimillion dollar houses and exclusive stores and restaurants. If it is crime ridden, it's white collar crime, which is just fine with Trump.Green Eaglehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13477132834757467690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-12179463002480181332017-01-14T12:11:20.535-05:002017-01-14T12:11:20.535-05:00John Lewis represents a district where 88% of adul...John Lewis represents a district where 88% of adults have high school diplomas and 41% have college degrees... in other words a not-white district.<br /><br />And the white-dogs wonder why they're a dying breed.<br />Ten Bears<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com