As a woman of color, please go back to ignoring me!

[MrWendel]

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/2/19/1487849/-As-a-women-of-color-please-go-back-to-ignoring-me

By Sideboth



Can SC vote already so the majority of you can go back to ignoring us POC?

I don’t owe anyone an explanation of who I’m going to vote for or why?

I don’t need you to explain to me why x candidate is better for me than y.

I can read and I can make informed decisions for myself.

I don’t think Sanders is the next coming of MLK and I don’t think that Clinton is responsible for every bad thing that has happened to people of color (aka as POC).

I’m capable of nuanced thinking and able to weigh the candidates pros/cons for myself.

I don’t need diary after diary asking about pandering and candidate x said so and so.

I’m aware that x black person endorsed x candidate. That is nice. Good for them.

We don’t all think alike, we have different opinions and you know what that is fine.

I really don’t fucking care. You don’t own my vote.

(More in link)

[whatchamacallit]

1. I don't need to explain my choices either

Your wish is my command. Ignored.

[MrWendel]

2. THANK FUCKING GOD!!!

[1StrongBlackMan]

13. No one has asked you to. eom

[whatchamacallit]

19. And I haven't asked anyone else too either

[1StrongBlackMan]

20. And I'm certain you have not seen ...

Anyone of one particular group demanding that certain other groups explain why the support one candidate ... against their own interests, I might add ... when another candidate is clearly the better chance and has been since, forever!

[uponit7771]

3. +1

[MuseRider]

4. Everyone has one vote

and it is theirs alone. This nails it. I try very hard to stay out of these issues because of exactly what you just said. It has to feel offensive because it is.

Your vote is your own and however you get to your choice is your own path.

[MrWendel]

6. Thank you.

Not my diary, but thank you. No one should have to apologize for who they vote for.

[MuseRider]

9. How did we ever come

to the point when anyone felt like they needed to apologize for their vote? The entire country is just one big awful mess.

It is possible to disagree and not be disagreeable. It is also possible to allow others their own story. We fail at both of those things.

[DisgustipatedinCA]

5. Sounds reasonable to me. I hope no one ever told this person that they own her vote.

This sounds like a person fully engaged in the political process, and I don't doubt her when she says she doesn't need any assistance in choosing a candidate. I guess I'm just not seeing where the disagreement is here.

[MrWendel]

8. What Black people have to understand...

Why do black people vote against their own interests...
John Lewis is a shell of himself. He's given up on civil rights because he votes for Hillary....

There is ALLOT of whitesplaining on this site and Dailykos.

That at least in my opinion is where it comes from.

[DisgustipatedinCA]

11. I'm not sure what you're asking me, but again, it doesn't sound like this person needs a campaign

...pitch from anyone. It sounds like she knows her mind, and I fully expect her to execute on her preference when it comes to the primaries and the General.

[MrWendel]

12. And like I mentioned above...

people should not have to apologize or be shamed into or out of a vote. This may be a surprise to some but African-Americans are not a monolithic block.

[DisgustipatedinCA]

15. And still, I find no points of disagreement with you. No one should have to apologize for their vote

No one should be shamed into or out of a vote. People are free to vote for whomever they want to vote for.

[Armstead]

18. "What's the matter with Kansas"

It's not "whitesplainin."

It's an age-old question/argument made by people who support a candidate, party,ideology about people who don't see things their way, when they believe a positions/candidate is in their interest.

Same things the Democrats have been wondering about white conservatives forever.

"Why do working class Republicans vote against their own interests?"

No different when Sanders supports raise the same argument about AAs or anyone.

[libtodeath]

7. Seems the only one that thinks they own her vote is Hillary

[zappaman]

10. Seems the only one that thinks they own her vote is Bernie

[Indepatriot]

14. I know!...must be all that "firewall" talk the Sanders campaign is doin'....

[MrWendel]

16. Or the...

"I am only close to Obama to get an in with Black people" from her interview on BET was amazingly stupid... wait.

[Blue_Tires]

17. Damn... When did Black Kos start?

How did I miss that?