In 2016, diagnosed with cancer, I knew here, in a small town in Wisconsin (by the way, I'm a Chicagoan, birth and education), Trump was the man for neighbors and merchants, even otherwise "liberals." A lawn sign with Hillary Clinton's name was nowhere in the vicinity of my neighborhood or any boarding neighborhoodand the neighborhoods had a small, but nonetheless, racially diverse population. It was a draining few months that year for me. Scary.
I'm not Senator Susan Collins, so I never believed Trump would come to his senses after the Impeachment Trial and the Republican party's acquittal of Trump. I don't believe the DNC will come to it's senses, at least, not on it's own. For the 2020 presidential election in November, the focus is on African Americans. Remember the huge turn out of African Americans in 2018? America was stunned by the turn out.
Can blacks do it again? But who is asking the question? Are we talking about a money machine like Trump or someone who will really put a halt to this downward spiral of the entire American experiment in democracy?
Joe Biden isn't the man he once wasthat is, he sees himself as beyond the warmonger he used to be when he campaigned and supported the US invasion of Iraq. That Biden, gone, replaced with Obama's Vice President. Obama's point man when it came to health care in America. This Biden is a friend to black people. For weeks, the media blasted images of Biden as Obama's right hand man. Remember those eight years he stood by Obama?
But the Democratic Socialist, Senator Bernie Sanders, won the popular vote at the polls in both states.
And what's the name on the cheer cue card now? Mike Bloomberg!
You remember him! The former Mayor of New York from 2002 to 2013. Republicanbut never mind that? Bloomberg has reformed, emphasis on reformed.
As for the Stop-and-Frisk policy that Bloomberg tooted, that policy that for years harassed black and brown people guilty of being black or brownwell the presidential billionaire candidate has enough money and clout to insists everyone just put that business behind them. It was a long time ago. Let's move on. Watch my television ads! I have money of plenty to generate ads. Reform is on the way!
It's being reported that Bloomberg is garnishing black support, and the American public is treated to images of black people in the foreground while Bloomberg stands behind a podium, all reformed, of course. There are blacks introducing him to a cheering crowd. Blacks on his team are now tooting for Bloomberg.
And it has to be said, too, that on the "ground" blacks, there is an unfortunate history of African Americans after having the Iron Heel stomping on their necks for so long deciding enough is enoughand, waving the white flag, defect to the side that has historically branded the disenfranchised black and brown as "lazy" or "failures." Or "troublemakers." In other words, black and brown are snubbed by some black and brown people reflecting the larger American society's power to undermine the struggle to make black and brown and Indigenous lives matter.
Already the gatekeepers, these are African Americans who see opportunity for themselves and their families. To question a failing economic system such as capitalism is out of the question if it means sacrificing one's changes, and the changes of one's children from being racially "superior" then at least by being associated with the color green. In American culture, the values of the wealthy class matters. Play no attention to the disgruntled. The one's too far down to help.
The black lives that matter for Bloomberg are the one's for whom Stop-and-Frisk wasn't intended to snagunless showboating an expensive car in economically poor neighborhoods.
"Ninety-five percent of your murders and murderers and victims fit one M.O." Male and minority. It's true in New York; it's true in any city in the US, Bloomberg said in 2015. "It's a philosophy," said Andrew Gillum, former mayor of Tallahassee, Florida. A "dangerously disturbing worldview." But for the mayor of Stockton and Bloomberg's campaign's national co-chair, Michael Tubbs, any outrage response to Bloomberg's policy or "philosophy" is just an example of "fake outrage."
There's a reason socialism in the African American community back in the 20th Century was crushed!
What happened to the economically poor and working class under Bloomberg? Well, you know, Pay no attention to that image of Bloomberg, the Republican Mayor of New York with his foot on the necks of black people.
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