We cannot shape our politics around a belief that others are racist.

[screembloodymurder]

Those who claim to be defending the party from the naivety of the majority need to re-examine their logic. Everyone is entitled to their opinion, but once the will of the majority is clear, there's a fine line between being a good democrat and becoming an aristocrat.

[mrreowwr_kittty]

1. It's a FACT that there are racists in this country

But I also think the time to stop catering to them has long passed.

[screembloodymurder]

3. I'm not disputing reality ...

just trying to reshape it.

[scheming daemons]

2. Racists will vote 90-10 for the Republican NO MATTER WHO WE NOMINATE

Racists gravitate to the GOP. They just do.


Our candidate can be lily-white as the driven snow, and the racists will pull the GOP lever.



So.... QUIT WORRYING ABOUT THE FUCKING RACISTS. They are a slowly, but surely, dying breed. With each generation, there are less and less of them.


Ignore them. We'll progress as a nation right past, through, and around them.

[reflection]

6. Yes. Absolutely.

Let them rot in their own racist hate. Their numbers are dwindling.

[BlooInBloo]

4. Racism by proxy is just the fashionable the cute way white folks have devised...

... to allow both the proxy and the proxy-user to be racist. The proxy-user gets the benefit of having the the appearance of no responsibility ("it's HIM that's racist, not ME).

As long as white folks agree among themselves that this is an acceptable way to perpetuate racism, it will continue - just like all the other ways.

[screembloodymurder]

9. Good point.

Letting racism shape our policy guarantees the status quo.

[BlooInBloo]

10. Yup. No need to let bigots choose our candidate.

[kentuck]

5. We do need to re-examine some of the logic.

For example, only Hillary can win the big states. Obama has won IL, GA, and NC. They are three of the top ten states in population. And the logic that because Hillary won NY and CA and PA that no other Democrat can with those voters is also flawed. As is the logic that Obama cannot win the "white voters" because Hillary won most of them in the primaries. That does not mean that all those white voters are racist - maybe they thought Hillary was the best candidate? There is so much flawed logic in this campaign.

[MNDemNY]

7. We must now work on strategies to survive four more years(at least) of republofuck rule.

As we ride our collective high-horse to defeat in November. Oh, goody.

[screembloodymurder]

12. I suspect even the racist are getting tired of riding this horse.

Sometimes even the unenlightened will act in their own best interest.

[EffieBlack]

8. THANK you!

Catering to the lowest common denominator is not only wrong, it's a losing proposition.

[Radical Activist]

11. There will always be people who think we can't elected a black President

until after we elect a black President. They'll be proven wrong.

[TexasObserver]

13. when 10-20% of white voters SAY race is an issue to them, it's a problem

and it's racism, not something else

We are complaining about racist actions, racist suppression schemes, and racist rhetoric designed to inflame whites and others against blacks.