Watch your back, Folks!!

[Number23]

This is the AFRICAN AMERICAN Forum. A dying place where refugees seek refuge

LiberalStalwart is the latest in a long line of black DUers that won't step foot in this place now.

Now apparently the target has been placed on TarheelDem's back (and has for some time) http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024457003 and after the battling that bravenak and others have been through, pretty soon the only black folks that still come to this place will be... none. Except for whatever 3-4 still remain in GD that lap up every bit of spew from these folks and hate the president as much as they do.

[Tarheel_Dem]

1. I'm what they hate the most! A lifelong, loyal Democrat who hates third party advocates every bit..

as much as I do Teanutters. Let 'em bring it on!

[Number23]

2. The thing is, I am fully aware that you are more than capable of handling yourself

I've seen you laugh in the faces of these idiots more times than I can count. Their sputtering impotent rage is like a tonic to you, Sid and a few others.

But the issue to me is why do you HAVE to handle these people? Prosense gets it worse than anyone else here, and she is another one that can handle herself and her detractors, but again the point is why does she HAVE to? She cannot post a thread without being called a paid shill among any number of insults. Not just "I disagree with you" but the nastiest insults. And the fact that she is another black poster here with a bullseye on her back just pisses me off even more.

I'm personally sick of this crap. And this is all just a few days after LiberalStalwart left. If we were to actually go back to DU circa 2008 and count the number of black posters that were around then, how many would still be here? It's almost as if there is a concerted effort to run us off this damn web site and I'm about to let them because I can think of much better things to with my time that "converse" with the left version of the Tea Party. If some of these folks had their way, there would only be about 5 of us here posting and coincidentally, it will be the same less than handful of us that think that Black Agenda Report speaks "trooth to powa."

[Tarheel_Dem]

3. They went after Frenchie with a red hot vengeance. She checked out. The difference for me is...

I don't take them seriously. I could give a shit what they think about me. Blacks are the most loyal Democratic Party constituency. If they can cause a chasm between blacks and the white liberal base, then their job will be done. By the way, they're failing miserably.
Last time I checked the president still enjoyed over 80% support from Liberal Dems, and 90%+ from AA's.

It smacks of an "orchestrated" campaign, and probably well funded. The thing is, if they conquer DU, does that really change anything in the real world?

[BainsBane]

5. See, I was told your crime was attacking "DU."

Evidently it's okay to smear the Democratic Party and all kinds of members of this site, including unsavory groups like HOF and BOG, but not the amorphous "DU."

[Number23]

6. It's even okay to make the most disgusting comments about India, Africa, the Middle East

the Caribbean, etc. etc. but somehow, it is absolute UNACCEPTABLE with a capital U to say anything bad about Latin America. Latin America???

I disagreed vehemently with Tarheel's statement about Latin America and I told her so. But the white hot anger directed at that comment by the same folks that skip lightly over really disgusting comments made about other parts of the world has to be one of the most headscratchingly stupid and hypocritical things I have EVER seen here.

Case in point http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024202349 look at the number of people begging this poster who had a post hidden for saying something really, really nasty about India not to leave? And he didn't just make one nasty comment about India. He made SEVERAL really nasty comments about India.

And there are nasty comments made about the Caribbean, the Middle East, Africa etc. etc. etc. routinely here.

[BainsBane]

7. I hadn't noticed that about Latin America

Interesting though. Perhaps it's because more people have traveled there. I don't think we should be insulting any culture based on such stereotypes. That said, I like Blue Jazz. I thought those posts were out of character for him.

[Tarheel_Dem]

9. That statement was made in reference to the Bolivian "PRESIDENT" who was being championed at the....

time as a victim of the mean old black guy in the White House. The statement was in reference to Latin American leaders who blame every shitty thing that happens in their countries, on the US. It's a great diversion tactic, but I find it a bit played out.

[Number23]

12. Ahhh, so it was re: Evo Morales

I still disagree with what you said. You know that. But I still find it beyond hypocritical all of the really absurd "disapproval" that your comment illicited. If half these folks had some of the crap they said years ago tossed back in their faces, they'd have logged out permanently by now.

It's like Louis Farrakhan. I disagree with 97.5% of what that man says and does. But let some white person tell me how I SHOULD or need to feel about the man (as if I need their permission) and all hell breaks loose.

[BainsBane]

16. Someone suggested I was an anti-semite

because I said I would see Farrakhan if he came to town. It was in reference to some politician attending a talk of his. I can't remember who. My point was you can see someone speak without holding all their views, that one isn't responsible for what he says. They didn't agree. I said it must be very hard to attend events if you have to know in advance you aren't going to have an issue with anything they say.

When they bring that crap up about Morales or whatever old thing they dredge up, it's just an excuse for a witch hunt.

[BainsBane]

14. Oh, Evo Morales

Okay. Well, Latin Americans actually have a lot of reason to blame the US, but ironically the fact they are now saying so out loud shows how much US power has diminished in the region.

[Number23]

11. Tarheel's comment, if I remember correctly, was made in the midst of a conversation about Glen

Greenwald who currently lives in Latin America. In my humble opinion, that was the Alpha and the Omega of the "OMG OMG did she see what she said about Latin America??!1" hyperventilation. That and the fact that a large number of socialist governments reside in that part of the world.

I don't agree with insulting any culture either. But I definitely find it so very, very interesting all of the hatred directed at her for comment about LA when people have said just as nasty and needless things about other parts of the world.

[BainsBane]

15. The cult of personality really bugs me

Why does the NSA story have to be all about canonizing Greenwald and Snowden? They are far less important that the broader issue of privacy vs. national security and surveillance. Attack St. Greenwald and you're the enemy. It's so silly.

[JI7]

10. also tarheel's comment was from last year , months ago

so they bring it up to justify their call out on some unrelated crap.

but they got offended when someone brought up some threat willpitt made .

it's not just republicans who have different standards for different people.

i don't think they give a shit about latin america either but they were just using it to attack the poster.

[Number23]

13. "i don't think they give a shit about latin america either but they were just using it to attack"

That's what I think too.

[Tarheel_Dem]

8. "Attacking DU"? Quelle Surprise!!!!

Damn, I'd better be really REALLY REALLY quiet!!!!!

[freshwest]

17. LOL! What big eyes you have! n/t

[JustAnotherGen]

18. Ha!

[Whisp]

45. very sorry you are getting such undeserved grief, Tarheel!

[Tarheel_Dem]

47. I can take it! I'm (not so) young, gifted & black!

[heaven05]

64. persevere

I'm sure you can take it. I get hung up on the home page. I've made a promise to myself to visit this forum/group more.

[Tarheel_Dem]

65. I always start out at the Latest Page, very rarely visit the Home Page at all. This is a great.....

retreat from the noise.

[heaven05]

66. that's what I meant

'the latest page'.

[BainsBane]

4. I saw that

I can't believe that thread was allowed to stand. If people have something to say to someone, they should address them directly rather than gossiping. It's ugly.

[Jamaal510]

19. DU is turning out

to not exactly be the place that I read about in the brochure. I originally found this place in 2012 in the heat of the GOP primaries, just as a sort of sanctuary from the Ron Paul worship on YouTube and GOP/libertarian talking point parrots elsewhere online. I was in love with DU for a while, but recently (especially since the NSA story gained attention), things have really gotten nasty around here. Not once did I ever imagine that a person would be called a "cheerleader" or a "paid shill" on a Democratic website just for posting something positive about the Democratic President or criticizing Snowden and Greenwald. Never. Furthermore, I've even heard people accuse others of diverting from (name policy they disagree with Obama on) whenever there is a poster who starts a thread in GD about social issues such as feminism and racism, for example. It's gotten crazy enough to where I am nearly left speechless.

I'll still continue to post here regularly and check on some of the news before it hits the TV, but yeah...sometimes it's easy to forget that I'm on a site dedicated to Democrats. The positive threads about Obama and the Democratic Party in general usually only garner about a few dozen recs maximum, while the outrage posts easily get into the hundreds, no matter if the outrage is recycled/misplaced or not. Clearly not everyone who posts here is a Democrat, and as Tarheel Dem mentioned in one thread, this place has seen its share of infiltrators from sites such as DailyPaul.

[JI7]

20. don't assume they are really democrats or liberals

since people who are right wingers would get banned of course they will claim to be something in order to stay.

all the shit they spew sounds the same as i hear from the wingnuts on other sites where they don't have to hide who they are. wingnuts are always attacking black people and blame them for obama. these people are pretty much the same. they wont admit it because they can't on here.

but you can tell from the pattern.

just look at how they try to compare snowden to martin luther king, gandhi, rosa parks etc. yeah, these people sure know something about race.

and of course the "class not race" bs .

and there was not this much complaint about nsa when it was Bush. they are the ones who are reacting differently. i don't remember democrats making nsa a huge thing during bush years. the issues then was the wars and things like jobs, education etc. the same issues that most dems and liberals see as important.

but a certain crowd just can't stand a black guy is in office and has certain powers.

[Number23]

21. I think that's exactly why she's got the bullseye so squarely on her back

Like she said upthread, she calls these folks out. She laughs in their faces. These people pretend to be the Democratic party's "base" when disdain and hatred are the only emotions they show towards the Dem party and government as a whole. And I say this as someone who is an INDEPENDENT and no more committed to the Dem party than the average person, I am by no means a "player" in the Dem game.

The positive threads about Obama and the Democratic Party in general usually only garner about a few dozen recs maximum, while the outrage posts easily get into the hundreds, no matter if the outrage is recycled/misplaced or not. Clearly not everyone who posts here is a Democrat, and as Tarheel Dem mentioned in one thread, this place has seen its share of infiltrators from sites such as DailyPaul.

Exactly. Not only infiltrators but as one astute person noted, this place is crawling with "nihilists of the left" who are every bit as clueless and destructive as the Tea Party. Which is why they bray so loudly whenever anyone makes that comparison -- and that comparison gets made ALOT. It's just shocking what this place has turned into and I'm not surprised that so many of the smartest folks are long gone.

[Tarheel_Dem]

22. Well said, and you wouldn't believe this was still a valid TOS, would you?

Vote for Democrats.

Winning elections is important — therefore, advocating in favor of Republican nominees or in favor of third-party spoiler candidates that could split the vote and throw an election to our conservative opponents is never permitted on Democratic Underground. But that does not mean that DU members are required to always be completely supportive of Democrats. During the ups-and-downs of politics and policy-making, it is perfectly normal to have mixed feelings about the Democratic officials we worked hard to help elect. When we are not in the heat of election season, members are permitted to post strong criticism or disappointment with our Democratic elected officials, or to express ambivalence about voting for them. In Democratic primaries, members may support whomever they choose. But when general election season begins, DU members must support Democratic nominees (EXCEPT in rare cases where were a non-Democrat is most likely to defeat the conservative alternative, or where there is no possibility of splitting the liberal vote and inadvertently throwing the election to the conservative alternative). For presidential contests, election season begins when both major-party nominees become clear. For non-presidential contests, election season begins on Labor Day. Everyone here on DU needs to work together to elect more Democrats and fewer Republicans to all levels of American government. If you are bashing, trashing, undermining, or depressing turnout for our candidates during election season, we'll assume you are rooting for the other side.

Voting rights, abortion rights, minority rights and a whole host of other issues have fallen victim to a bunch of libertarian bullshit. The one thing that gives me hope, however, is that polling doesn't match the venom we see on DU which is why I don't think we're necessarily dealing with Democrats.

[freshwest]

24. I wish I had your strength to be able to laugh at them. This libertarian BS hurts people IRL. n/t

[Tarheel_Dem]

25. It really does hurt people. But as long as it hurts Obama more, that seems to be...

the magic spot these days.

[freshwest]

37. I tell people in public that if they have a problem with Obama, they need some kind of medical help!

The hatred is just - INSANE. I did not want to see this, I had a hard time getting a grasp of how bad it could be.

I know I freaked seeing Palin doing her klan rallies in the South - honest to God, when I saw those in 2008 - it was like going back in time. The only thing missing was the white robes and pointed hoods and the cross burnings. Stupid me, I thought people had evolved.

After that and those lunatics who were going to kill him and a lot of blacks to start a race war - not sure if that was the Waffle House Putsch Gang- or Aryan nations or Nazis or what - I was unable to watch any more coverage. I felt like a cat in a room full of rocking chairs.

I couldn't watch the returns that night, just kept on flicking the TV and internet on and off. I just couldn't bear to see the loss to those (insert word here).

Then the win!!! He was elected and I thought, maybe it will be different, after all. I told myself, you are an old lady, what you remember is old and the new generation doesn't feel the fear and angst, it's their world now, great for all of us.

I cried for 3 days. I couldn't believe it was over. At last.

Then he was inaugurated and the shit started up the first day! It NEVER let up! I argued with the wingnuts for a couple years and finally joined DU after the election in 2010.

I'd enough of the troglodyte right where I'd been posting for years on a mixed board -as they finally started up with their psychopathic racist rants, not amenable to reason or facts. But the final straw was after I doubled down on them for posting all that hate and the 'liberals' apologized to the RWNJs whining like victims!



I came here and it was better. Outright RWNJs were getting banned but then it seemed the same bunch I begged to vote in 2010 who'd gone all CT were here and went after Obama. And still going on here now, just faster, much, much more slick, but same song and dance.

All of this is what I call the national 'Id' finally showing itself. And it's not pretty!

[Whisp]

46. I call it 'Organized Grime' - what is happening here

with how the most important issue ever in all history is the NSA with a certain group sucking the air out of most any other topic. It's so obvious that it's not accidental.

[freshwest]

48. You're right... and that double call out thread posted that was linked here in AA... another one!

[1StrongBlackMan]

59. But really ...

is their B.S., on this message board, hurting President Obama?

[1StrongBlackMan]

23. I noticed this, too ...

Furthermore, I've even heard people accuse others of diverting from (name policy they disagree with Obama on) whenever there is a poster who starts a thread in GD about social issues such as feminism and racism, for example. It's gotten crazy enough to where I am nearly left speechless.

Issues of concern to liberals everywhere ... are now DU's "Bengazi"...

[MrScorpio]

61. DU is a place to struggle, for sure

But I came here after spending a few years dealing with the trolls on Yahoo.

I've fought for twelve years here and I've survived every single one of them. Even if if I've had some epic battles from time to time.

Let's say, I can handle myself.

[onpatrol98]

26. Every time I step away...

Every time I step away...things go crazy. I don't know what's going on here, lately. DU has been an eye opener for me, though. I sometimes read some of the stuff that's written on DU to my mother. She's like..."are you sure those are democrats?" Mom, you have no idea!!!

I've been reading and playing catch up. You guys are tough. I get tired of the "crazy" some days and I just have to step away. To my mind, in many ways...President Obama has been the best president I've seen in my lifetime. But, I promise...I will be glad when someone else gets it in the White House.

Sometimes, I see these lists of people DUers want to see in the White House, and you know...it's just best not to post on those days. Because I'm thinking...no one in their right mind thinks this person has a snow ball's chance in hell getting elected. We have a democrat in the White House right now. There are some things getting done right now...that wouldn't be getting done with a republican in the White House. And, yet...the great search for the next "truly" progressive president has started. Well, I hope they find that person.

But, if they can't recognize President Obama as a decent man, trying to do the right thing...it's just a lost cause. I disagree with the President on policies sometimes. Heck, often. But, with some folks...NOTHING is getting done, just because what they want isn't getting done.

That's a part of the privilege, don't you think? Minorities are so used to having to wait...and wait...and wait. But, when you're a part of a group that's used to the world revolving around you...any delay is unacceptable.

Even being poor as a part of a majority is different from being poor as part of a minority community. It would suck regardless. But, the expectations are just different.

[Number23]

30. And now someone else is leaping onto the "Crush. Kill, Tarheel" train

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024470853

And juries do NOTHING. Hosts do NOTHING. Damn, when I said in my OP that these folks won't be happy until there are five of us left here I was 1/27th joking but now I am really starting to believe that is EXACTLY what the plan is.

Every time I step away...things go crazy. I don't know what's going on here, lately. DU has been an eye opener for me, though. I sometimes read some of the stuff that's written on DU to my mother. She's like..."are you sure those are democrats?" Mom, you have no idea!!!

Girl, I used to show my husband some of the stuff around here. But I had to stop 'cause I felt like he was looking at me like *I* was crazy for still coming here and posting. From where he was sitting, it was like "why would you go and be around these illiterate lunatics unless YOU one too??!"

I agree with what you've said. That's why I'm starting to think the next time I "step away" maybe it needs to be for good.

[bravenak]

31. My husband says the same thing to me. Leave those crazy people alone!

Then I told him about the Misandry I'm practicing and he told me to shut up and stop making up words.
I quit GD for a months or so after the DU Zimmerman defense network got the results they wanted. I came back when he socked husband FIL in the face, just to say told you so, but I couldn't even do it.

[Number23]

33. You are too funny!

Then I told him about the Misandry I'm practicing and he told me to shut up and stop making up words.



Girl, Jamaal and 1SBM hit the nail on the head upthread. DU is probably the only "liberal" web site where minorities and women get accused of trying to derail the REAL issues. And of course, those REAL issues would be... whatever issues affect these half-witted people that squat in GD and act as though they have a clue when they know Fuck All.

[bravenak]

35. I feel like that one black lady that joined the TEA party sometimes.

Like wtf am I doing with these people. I'm being told right now that my historical baggage is not going to ruin soul food for somebody. Slavery is historical baggage. WTF?? My bad, I better not speak things such as slavery, I might upset the delicate constitutions of my betters. Strange times.

[Number23]

36. I think you've had a really good impact on this forum

Your decision to kick ass and take names really seems to have rubbed off on a few of us. I see alot more folks kicking ass and getting PROUDLY pissed off and mad in these threads.

I'm waaaaaayy past the point of giving a fuck about DU and the privileged morons that squat in GD but I wanted to give you a shout for that. Please don't stop kicking ass around here.

[bravenak]

38. I've been around people like this my whole life.

My husband is half black and his white grandma hates black people. We take a shot everytime she calls me 'Gal'. I got sooo drunk one thanksgiving we had to take a cab home and come back the next day to get our car. That was the night she told my MIL to have that ni***-gal wash the dishes up. Poor old lady. I did not wash the dishes. I left my plate on the table and did not scrape if off into the trash can. Then I proceeded to make everyone uncomfortable by telling white man black man jokes. The black man always wins in those jokes. I'm sure I practiced reverse racism since I reflected the racism back at the bigot, thereby becoming the 'real' racist. Like those Black Panthers at the Philly election.

I think that DU needs somebody to tell them what they sound like. It's fun sometimes, and when I can't do it anymore I'm pretty sure I'll be run off too. Banned or something. Until then, I will try to get on the ignore lists of any and all DU racists and misogynists.

[JustAnotherGen]

40. I love you

If you ever come to NJ - can you please come to my house and visit? Please! Oh please!

[bravenak]

42. I'll show up to partay!!

If you come to alaska look me up. I'm easy to find, there's not very many Delarosa's in the phone book. I'm also on face book every once and a while. Super easy to find, I searched my name and got 2 results in the entire USA.

I'm glad I have someone to visit in NJ. You're freaking awesome!

[JustAnotherGen]

39. The Gio

Says something similar!

"Adri! What's WRONG with you!?!"

Then he reads and gets fired up and realizes he's part of the problem too!

[onpatrol98]

43. I didn't realize what that opening post was about...

I didn't realize what that opening post was about. I didn't recognize it as a call out. I'm so slow. I have never turned a laser on a DUer with the purpose of pushing them off the site. But, then again, this seems less about democratic principles and more about controlling the conversation and people, not just on the site...but nationwide.

Only authorized lockstep thinking allowed, all others will be shut down and shamed. At times, we enable the crap, too. I tell my sons, don't become a part of the newly "enslaved'. Don't leave one set of chains for another mental set. That's why I don't give black republicans a hard time. I want to challenge their policies...not their right as a free people to have a different philosophy.

The people who suggest Obama supporters are cheerleaders...they have a different agenda, entirely. They are mad that you aren't the cheerleaders of the most important items on their list. What outrages them, should outrage you too. But, then, even if you're outraged...wait, you're not outraged enough. Uh, oh...now, you're not outraged in the right way. Yesterday, you should have picketed. Wait...you were picketing. You should have been doing voting registration. What? You were doing voter registration...you should have been (apparently doing whatever the hell they said you should be doing...when they said you should have been doing it.)

It's about control, not principle.

But, it also proves something else, loud and clear. There are some on DU, who think the party would be fine without this nice, BIG, voting block. When you can treat people ANY KIND OF WAY YOU WANT...well, heck...apparently, you don't think you need them.

One of the lessons of Hillary Clinton (2008), has apparently not been learned.

[JustAnotherGen]

44. That's it exactly - let me pull out the specific words

There are some on DU, who think the party would be fine without this nice, BIG, voting block.

That is the truth. Threw alcohol on a fire earlier - now I'm going to go throw some kerosene. Elsewhere on the DU playground.

[Number23]

53. It's the RESENTMENT that gets me more than anything

In the Dem party hierarchy of important constituents black voters are up there (which is kind of terrifying considering how it seems that many of the things that affect us the most take the longest to get done). Anarchists, Green Tea Baggers, and "left" nihilists are way down on the list of groups that anyone considers important and with damn good reason.

And I think that's where so much of this anger comes from. This resentment towards black voters, who are the delicious gravy that keep the Dem Party Pot Pie from getting dried out and completely cast aside, is absolutely disgusting and should be disturbing to everyone. People here seem to be honestly pissed that so many black DUers still support President Obama, as if the 85+% approval he shares in the black community is just a lie the media keeps telling them. They sound a lot like Karl Rove on election day when he refused to accept the numbers that Nate Silver, Gallup and other groups had been telling about an Obama romp. Our support for the president is ENTIRELY consistent with Dem national support for this president and especially for BLACK Dem support for this president so all of this bullying, harassment and resentment is bizarre and really does line up with Tarheel and others statement that these folks are probably not Democrats at all.

[JustAnotherGen]

57. They need us

. If they are even Democratic party members - they neeeeed us.

[Number23]

55. You are exactly right

But, then again, this seems less about democratic principles and more about controlling the conversation and people

This is why I don't donate. And won't. This is why like I said, I have long since stopped caring. All I can do is thank goodness that DU is just about the only place on earth where these folks have any semblance, any illusion of influence.

It's about control, not principle.

Yes. It is not about being listened to. It's about being OBEYED and always has been.

[freshwest]

50. OMG! Someone found this offensive???

Star Member Tarheel_Dem (18,941 posts)
5. POST! OF! THE! DAY!

This is exactly why DU is just DUmping ground for malcontents these days. Back in the day, the issues you outlined would've brought the "activists" out of hibernation. These days, they're pretty much impotent.

Which is an excellent reply to:

TheMathieu (247 posts)

4. I wish we could get that many to march against failure to renew UI and the slashing of SNAP.

They can't muster up enough fucks for the poor, but when the details of their porn habits are threatened... boy will they come out in droves.

I started complaining about the privileged class (NSA, TSA, etc) not wanting to hear from the lowly ones who had less fear of slights when survival is at stake. I did it continually for a long while and even got some really creepy feedback.

Why is bringing DU back to traditional Democratic Party values, the ones Obama and the DNC expressed eloquently to the applause of Democrats, now beneath contempt?

They don't even give lipservice to it anymore. I've only seen any failures used to bash PBO, not any real passion for it. No posts, no Recs, unless they can bash Democrats or Obama.

And talk against Baron Greenwald is to be censored now, when we have ignoratti calling for Obama to be impeached for media generated non-scandals repeatedly?

Lord Snowden's ugly comments about the elderly, whistleblowers and immigrants going with exactly the same tact as the baggers, is now Democratic Party and DU dogma that must not be discussed?

The same cabal's connections with the Koches, the Oathkeepers, their disdain of all Democrats, and hate for Obama, that's the only good subject matter at DU now?



Why not create a Libertarian group to evangelize in one place instead of trying to run Democrats off?

[Number23]

54. I've noticed that it's the same folks over and over again, posting the same tired assed

hair on fire OP's where everything and everybody is going to die TOMORROW because of this president. It doesn't matter how foolish the criticism, there it is and oh, how the recs pile up. And we all know it's the recs that are the only thing these folks care about, particularly those that keep spouting that America should burn in order to be rebuilt.

Prosense (I think?) posted an OP about a week ago where Paul Krugman himself chastised "liberals" for being too hard and unreasonable with this president and not giving him the credit that he deserves. Got maybe 20 recs?? But it's not personal, it's not hatred, it's just "holding his feet to the fiyah."

[freshwest]

49. You said it all, just what I wanted to say:

That's a part of the privilege, don't you think? Minorities are so used to having to wait...and wait...and wait. But, when you're a part of a group that's used to the world revolving around you...any delay is unacceptable.
...It's about control, not principle...

That's the exact attitude, right there, very Paulite, unrelenting, and always on the attack. Their outrage at being denied total agreement is ruining this place. And yes, they want many to leave and are sharpening their knives. And to leave the Democratic Party which only helps the Libertarians.

[1StrongBlackMan]

51. Tell it ...

That's a part of the privilege, don't you think? Minorities are so used to having to wait...and wait...and wait. But, when you're a part of a group that's used to the world revolving around you...any delay is unacceptable.

It seems that the "minority experience" in this America is the best teacher of political realities.

[bravenak]

27. I like being told how I should feel about 'Black Stuff'.

It's so fun. I'm reading the soul food thread right now and it's a live one. I'm trying to pretend to myself that fried chicken isn't a stereotype, playing off of some racist bull from the past. Its not working.

Why should I care if some guy wrote a book fantasizing about how wonderful soul food is? He's trying to sell books, of course he's going make everything sound comfy and nice. The real history of black people and chicken is that we rarely got any. Lots of times when a slave ate fried chicken it was stolen since they weren't allowed to have any. We got salt pork, cornmeal, fatback, molasses, and tobacco. The rest we scavenged for, and grew from the plots we tended to at night if the massa allowed us to tend our own fields near our shacks. That ain't soul food to me. That's slave food and I don't want to embrace it.

Sorry for posting this here, but I had to get that out. Again. I'm leaving it alone now.

[M0rpheus]

28. As a bright note, fishwax just drank her milkshake.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024471031#post79

[bravenak]

29. Oh hells yes.

Somebody had to do it.
I bet there will be no response. There's nothing left to say.

[Number23]

34. Fishwax is a god(dess)

Bain'sBane sent me the link to that OP but I was too busy trying not to simultaneously laugh and vomit at "Kill Tarheel V2.0" to read it too closely.

[JustAnotherGen]

41. My answer to that stupidity

For the time being is going to be -

Oh Fiddle Dee!


Seriously! No harm, no foul. If they don't know who they sound like - then that's on them.

[sheshe2]

32. And how they hate the BOG, Number23.

Such nasty slander and ridicule of it's members and those that post there. We are stupid mindless cheerleaders that walk in lockstep.

The unremitting hate and vitriol that is tossed at this President, here at DU and by so many on the outside. They just can't stand a Black man as President, I see no other explanation. It damn well hurts. Yes those posts rocket to the top, with the usual crew piling on every single time. I see them all, I have only one poster on ignore. Yet not once, not ever do I ever see a positive thread about this President from them.

Nor do I see them fighting the fight for woman's issues, AA voting rights, LGBT rights, no not them. It's crickets.

It's bash Obama 24/7 here. I find that painfully sad.

[Blue_Tires]

52. I promise you they aren't getting rid of me

and they have been trying...

If and when I do make a decision to leave, it will be on my own accord...

[JustAnotherGen]

56. If they are going after you -

They are really grasping at straws. You aren't offensive, full of snark ( I plead the fifth) and generally come across as very level headed and optimistic.

I can see with my "Fiddle Dees" where I'm poking the bear - but you? You aren't bothering anyone!

[onpatrol98]

58. Okay...I saw this quote and had to share it...I know ya'll saw it...

"the African-Americans got a full month and everyone else only got a week"



It requires no link...not a call out



It's just one of those things that make you go...hmmmm.

It kind of reminds me of one of those t shirts. I went to Mars and all I got was (fill in the blank.)

Me personally...the government can keep February...but, jobs, healthcare, education, housing...I'm always for action in those areas.

[JustAnotherGen]

60. I didn't See it

What a jack ass!

[BainsBane]

62. When so-called Democrats sound like Fox News

We've got a serious problem.

[heaven05]

63. I'm still here!

and I'm not going anywhere. I believe in our space. We deserve it.