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StarfishSaver's JournalWakanda warrior named the VP nominee's chief of staff
Interesting
https://twitter.com/StephanieJ_DC/status/1293244848720379904
At least the nominee, whoever she is, will know her back is covered at all times ...
A great response to the "Kamala's a cop" crowd
There has been much talk about the time Sen. Kamala Harris spent as a prosecutor. As a public defender for 24 years, I examined, critiqued and battled Harris when she was the San Francisco district attorney. And more often than not, Harris and I were on opposite sides.
Having had this experience, I feel compelled to speak on Harris’ record while she was a district attorney. Simply put, Harris was the most progressive prosecutor in the state. This is not an anecdotal opinion. It is based on facts.
As San Francisco DA, Harris refused to seek the death penalty — even on a case where a very respected police officer was tragically killed. Marijuana sales cases were routinely reduced to misdemeanors. And marijuana possession cases were not even on the court’s docket. They were simply not charged. Unless there was a large grow case, or a unique circumstance, this was the reform-minded approach then-DA Harris’ office took. The accusations about marijuana prosecutions being harsh during her tenure are absurd. The reality was quite the opposite.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2020/08/10/kamala-harris-progressive-pioneer-san-francisco-da-column/3334668001/
John Fugelsang, perfect, as usual
https://twitter.com/JohnFugelsang/status/1292693514787184640The only word
that can make
followers of Jesus
vote against everything
Jesus ever talked about
because of one issue
that Jesus never talked about.
Trump just rushed out of the briefing
https://twitter.com/Yamiche/status/1292941961146642432I don't understand why people who think it's fine for Biden to promise and us to expect a female VP
have a problem with expecting Biden to select a black woman.
Democratic white women responded with overwhelming praise and enthusiasm when Biden announced that he intended to select a woman as his running mate, thereby limiting his options only to women. But I'm now seeing a troubling number of white women balking at the suggestion that he should further limit his options to only women of color.
In just about every discussion about Biden needing to choose a black women, many of the white women who hailed his "Only Women Need Apply" stance suddenly went all "not the color of their skin but the content of their character" on us.
Why is it fine for Biden to limit his choices by gender, but not limit his choices by race and gender?
If the racial "identity politics" is verboten, why is gender "identity politics" ok?
Leah Daughtrey: "I don't have the strength to carry two White people across the finish line
“For me, it raised again the spectre that we live every day as Black women, of being judged by and held to a different standard, despite the fact that we are qualified and that we are the highest propensity voters in the nation,” Daughtry said, calling the current tone “maddening.”
“I need to have someone who has my experience because of their sex and the color of their skin, so I know my issues and my concerns are going to be daily at the table when policy is going to be discussed,” she said. “I can’t make that assumption, and I’m not going to advocate for that assumption to the people I’m asking to vote.”
https://19thnews.org/2020/08/black-women-insist-that-biden-write-us-into-history/?amp&__twitter_impression=true
Detroit News: Weighing the odds of Whitmer as veep
In just 19 months as governor, her accomplishments are unremarkable. She's not been able to formulate a clear agenda, let alone move one through the Republican-controlled Legislature. Whitmer has no background in foreign affairs and has not demonstrated a deep grasp of economics. The governor is not prepared to take over as president should something happen to Biden, which, despite his weekend bike ride, is far likelier than with most new presidents.
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African-Americans don't seem to be in the mood this time to be teased and then disappointed again.
Over the weekend, Pamela Phe8augh, a Democrat and vice president of the state Board of Education, joined 700 other African-American women in demanding Biden select a Black woman, and attacking Whitmer's record and qualifications.
"As a Michigan statewide elected official, I stand united with Black women and others from across this country who demand presumptive Democratic nominee, Joe Biden, select a Black woman as his running mate," her letter reads.
"Governor Whitmer has often reneged on campaign promises. Here in Michigan, our communities have had to exhaust great energy and resources to convince her to do what’s just and right even though Black voters decisively carried over the finish line to get her elected."
https://www.detroitnews.com/story/opinion/columnists/nolan-finley/2020/08/10/nolan-finley-on-gretchen-whitmer-odds-vice-president-joe-biden/3331846001/
ABC: 9 people test positive for coronavirus at Georgia school that went viral for crowded photo
https://twitter.com/Sifill_LDF/status/1292479814444691456I really like Gov. Whitmer, but ... We're looking at white privilege in real time
But I am concerned that some people are advocating that several highly qualified black women be passed over for VP in favor of white female whose primary advantage is that she holds an office that black women have never had the opportunity to hold because they have consistently been (and continue to be) shut out of being elected to statewide office.
In other words, Gov. Whitmer is being credited for performing very well in an office that black women have been blocked from holding and, thus have never been able to prove how competently they would perform in
the role.
This is a perfect example of how white privilege works and continues to be perpetuated, even when people don't intend to. Black women are essentially being penalized for not gaining certain kinds of executive experience when they've been denied access to the only venue in which they could acquire that kind of experience - while a white woman who has been granted entry into that small room is touted as more qualified than the black women to hold another office that has been denied to women of all races because she had the advantages they were prevented from obtaining.
This is not a knock against Gov. Whitmer - I think she's great. But the racial privilege is real.
#GoodTrouble
Good for you, young warrior!
https://twitter.com/BuzzFeedNews/status/1291771486496346112
If a school can suspend a student for taking and posting a photo, it can certainly require its students to wear masks.
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