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5. The shortcoming of that candidate is precisely the point.
Sat Aug 6, 2016, 12:55 PM
Aug 2016

You claim to understand the histories of oppression that shape us, I'll add you and the nation. You cannot keep saying "you," "you," "you," as if to remove yourself from the oppression. And fail to understand that this has been a huge contributing factor to the downfall within the movement time and time again, that that candidate surprisingly manifested all these years later.

I suggest that you start by studying as far back as the abolitionists to that candidate, and you'll figure out how we've been left out in the cold. Early threads in this forum starting last summer on that candidate and the whole movement is a good place to start.

I think you've answered your own questions in the OP but, for some reason, reasoning stops when it comes to POC though all the answers are there.

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