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Re: Demographic Blueshift
By: guest5 Date: January 12, 2021, 12:44 am
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[quote]Of course questions — and doubts — abound about such a
proposal. Questions like: Isn’t the proposal racist on its face?
No. The point here is not to impose a new racial hierarchy, but
to remove an existing one. Race, as we have come to understand
it, is a fiction; but, racism, as we have come to live it,
is a fact. After centuries of waiting for white majorities to
overturn white supremacy, it has fallen to Black people to do it
themselves.
...
White people outside the South are more likely to say the right
words, but many possess the same bigotry. Racism is everywhere.
And if that’s the case, wouldn’t you rather have some real
political power to address that racism?
...
“If you change the South, you change the entire nation.” This is
not surprising coming from Barber, whose own parents were
reverse migrants who moved back South to fight
racism.[/quote]
That was so well said it was refreshing to read. Much better
strategy than fleeing as well. A little ray of light in some
otherwise dark times.
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Re: Demographic Blueshift
By: 90sRetroFan Date: January 12, 2021, 2:16 am
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Yes. As I have said over and over again, the US has nukes. If
you flee from the US to a country without nukes in order to
escape racism, you are inviting the racists to nuke you.
The only correct response is to seize control of the nukes from
the racists. This requires Demographic Blueshift. And until
then, you need to stay close enough to the racists so that they
cannot nuke you without nuking themselves at the same time. It
is literally no different than grappling someone who is holding
a handgun. The worst response is to try to run away. You will
get shot if you do. Your best chance is to disarm the opponent
or at least keep the opponent unable to point the gun at you
while you call for additional help.
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Re: Demographic Blueshift
By: guest5 Date: January 16, 2021, 3:18 pm
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Let's talk about what North Carolina can teach the Democratic
party....
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BE6rIwYUuqo
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Re: Demographic Blueshift
By: 90sRetroFan Date: January 19, 2021, 10:45 pm
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HTML https://us.yahoo.com/finance/news/uncomfortable-truth-why-more-white-190000980.html
[quote]Tomorrow, Kamala Harris will make history as the first
woman, the first Black woman, and the first woman of Asian
descent to be inaugurated as Vice President. In her first speech
as Vice President–elect last November, Harris took to the stage
wearing suffragist white and declared that she stood on the
shoulders of generations of women who had paved her path.
And yet, the 2020 election and its aftermath revealed—once
again—some ugly truths about women voters, like the fact that a
majority of white women did not stand with her. White women’s
Republican support was even more pronounced in the Georgia
Senate elections, where a mere 31% of white women supported
Senators-elect Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff. And white women
were prominent participants in this month’s deadly Capitol
insurrection and other incidents of white supremacist mob
violence across the country.
...
we should stop being surprised by the fact that many white women
vote Republican. For years, many white progressives have assumed
that the GOP would be increasingly alienating to women, as a
result of their continual assaults on women’s health and
abortion, hostility to “caring economy” policies such as paid
leave and childcare, and open embrace of leaders facing
allegations of sexual harassment and assault. But while it’s
true that women of color are the base of the Democratic
Party—with Black women’s Democratic support, in particular,
routinely exceeding 90%—white women in fact have narrowly
favored the Republican presidential candidate for the better
part of 70 years. Their support for Trump in 2016 and 2020 was
not an aberration but the continuation of a long-standing
pattern.
We should also stop being shocked by the fact that white
supremacy and the politics of white grievance appeal to many
white women. Particularly in the Trump era, it’s been easy to
put a white male face on racism—loud guys screaming at MAGA
rallies—and to imagine that white women would be highly
motivated to fight against it.
But history tells a different story. Race, not gender, has
always been the primary driver of white women’s politics. White
suffragists worked alongside Black women and men for universal
suffrage, but the passage of the 15th Amendment split the
movement along racial lines. Elizabeth Cady Stanton referred to
Black men as “Sambos” and argued that the amendment “creates an
antagonism everywhere between educated, refined women and the
lower orders of men, especially in the South.” And once the 19th
Amendment passed and white women secured their right to
participate in American democracy, white suffragists like Alice
Paul turned a blind eye to the continued disenfranchisement of
Black women, calling it a civil rights, not a women’s rights,
issue.
White women have also been complicit in the weaponization of our
identities in service of racial terrorism, from lynchings of
Black men that white men committed in defense of white women’s
supposed “virtue” to today’s Amy Coopers and “Permit Pattys”
calling police on Black men who threaten their privilege. As
historian Elizabeth Gillespie McRae told me on the podcast,
white segregationist women shaped racist historical narratives
for millions of public school students through their roles on
textbook selection committees in the Jim Crow South, and led
fights for school segregation in the North, masked in the
color-blind language of “choice” and “neighborhood schools.”
Second, progressives also need to acknowledge the power of the
traditional nuclear family in shaping white women’s perceived
political interests. Conservatives have spent decades
positioning the white, nuclear family as an ideal deserving of
reverence and protection. There’s a reason for this: It pays off
for them in the voting booth. Married white women favor
Republican candidates at higher rates than their unmarried
counterparts. Trump’s evocation of that family ideal through his
appeals to “suburban housewives” may well have strengthened his
appeals to his base.
Third, white women’s perception of their political interests
have been shaped by a vast right-wing organizing machine.
Beginning in the 1970s, Phyllis Schlafly successfully channeled
angst over eroding postwar economic stability for the white
middle class into a mass political movement of highly religious
white women. Paul Weyrich and Jerry Falwell Sr. solidified that
support by making opposition to abortion the centerpiece of that
movement and building a vast network of right-wing evangelical
churches that remain a powerful political force to this day. And
through vehicles like the Koch family–funded Independent Women’s
Forum (IWF), the movement has deployed softer rhetoric to engage
independent white women voters. According to Lisa Graves of the
True North research group, this included mobilizing more than
200,000 voters for Trump in Wisconsin in 2016, a number vastly
exceeding his narrow 22,000 vote margin of victory in that
state.[/quote]
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Re: Demographic Blueshift
By: 90sRetroFan Date: January 25, 2021, 11:04 pm
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HTML https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/white-people-least-likely-to-wear-masks-consistently-study-finds-231848231.html
[quote]White people, the researchers found, were the least
likely of any race to wear a mask consistently, with just 46
percent reporting that they wear one while in close contact with
people they do not live with. That was compared with 67 percent
of Black people, 63 percent of Latinos and 65 percent of people
from other races.
Dr. Uché Blackstock, founder and CEO of Advancing Health Equity
and a Yahoo Life medical contributor, says the statistics aren’t
unexpected. “It’s not terribly surprising,” Blackstock says.
“The videos that we've seen on social media and television of
people refusing to wear a mask or demonstrating against it have
been predominantly white.”[/quote]
This agrees with my own anecdotal observations also.
If Demographic Blueshift had proceeded faster in previous
decades, the pandemic would have been less damaging. It is that
simple.
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Re: Demographic Blueshift
By: 90sRetroFan Date: February 10, 2021, 11:33 pm
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Credit where credit is due:
HTML https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/02/03/how-grassroots-efforts-by-georgias-latinos-helped-tip-senate-races/
[quote]Selena Herrera’s political awakening began last summer
when, horrified by the police killing of George Floyd, she
organized a protest for racial justice in Tifton, Ga.
“It was a big thing for a lot of people to know that even here
in the Deep South that we hear everyone and they know that they
have somebody there that can support them,” Herrera said, adding
that the need to be seen and heard was especially important for
the Black and Latino communities in her rural hometown of
16,000, about 180 miles south of Atlanta.
Herrera, 22, became more attuned to injustices around her and
wanted to fight for the rights of LGBTQ individuals and
undocumented immigrants, some of whom are in her own family. She
started knocking on doors as a paid community organizer to get
out the vote during last year’s general election season as part
of a grass-roots effort by the Georgia Latino Alliance for Human
Rights (GLAHR), a nonprofit that supports immigrant rights.
...
“My reaction was just like, ‘We’ve got to get on it, we’ve got
to move,’ ” said Herrera, who said she led a team of 21 young
Latino and Black canvassers during the runoffs. “I felt like it
gave us a chance to do what we had to do for change.”
...
“No doubt the Latino vote could have made the difference,
potentially the difference between winning and losing,” said
Adelina Nicholls, the executive director for GLAHR, which
partnered with Mijente, a national organization that advocates
for Latinos.
The number of eligible Hispanic voters in the Atlanta metro area
is expanding. There were 60 percent more Hispanic registered
voters in 2020 compared with 2016, up from 106,000 to 170,000,
according to the Pew Research Center.
Organizers are tapping into demographic changes that are
transforming the state. The median age of Latinos in Georgia is
27, according to census data, with many of them born in the
United States to parents who are undocumented.
While foreign-born Latinos first immigrated to the Atlanta metro
in the 1980s in search of work in construction and other
industries, most of the new growth in the Latino population in
the city in the past 15 years has been driven by U.S.-born
Latinos, according to a report from the Atlanta Regional
Commission. Atlanta projects its Latino population will grow
from about 12 percent in 2015 to 21 percent by 2050.
...
GLAHR helped elect Keybo Taylor as the first Black sheriff of
Gwinnett County in November. In one of his first acts as
sheriff, Taylor fulfilled his campaign promise to eliminate the
287(g) immigration program, which allowed the county jail to
collaborate with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
...
“So many of these kids all these years have been witnesses to
ICE outside of their door, or they have been witnesses of the
arrest of their parents, or they have been stopped by the police
several times,” Nicholls said. And that “has had deep
repercussions in our communities, very, very, very deep.”
Voto Latino, a national organization that focuses on voter
registration, tapped into the 18- to 39-year-old demographic and
partnered with Stacey Abrams’s Fair Fight Action initiative.
Ahead of the general election, Voto Latino registered 36,000
voters over the course of the year, said María Teresa Kumar,
Voto Latino’s founding president. They registered 11,528
more between Nov. 30 and Dec. 7 for the Senate runoffs.
“You are seeing a shift in young people of color aging into the
population, and engaging them in the process early is critical,”
Kumar said. “You can say that that was the reason why Arizona
flipped this year as well. … That was why Virginia flipped four
years ago, that was why Nevada flipped, and Georgia is part of
that trend.”
“When we started Voto Latino [in 2014], 30,000 Latinos were
turning 18 every single year. A Latino turns 18 every 30 seconds
now, and that will be the case for the next 10 years,” Kumar
said.
Herrera, from Tifton, says that she is hopeful young voters of
color like herself will stay engaged and become more influential
in upcoming elections.
“Now we know why it’s so important, and we’ll have a big impact
on future elections,” Herrera said. “Black and Brown solidarity
is huge, and I think our young generation knows that.”[/quote]
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Re: Demographic Blueshift
By: 90sRetroFan Date: February 16, 2021, 9:19 pm
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Let's add the Virgin Islands to candidates for statehood along
with Puerto Rico and DC!
HTML https://www.850wftl.com/puerto-ricos-governor-make-us-a-state/
[quote]Governor Pedro Pierluisi told Axios on HBO he expects
statehood legislation to be proposed in the House by mid-March.
“What I anticipate is that there will be considerable support
for a statehood bill in this Congress,” Pierluisi said.
...
Pierluisi, who was elected governor in the November election and
sworn in last month, ran on a promise to gain statehood for the
territory, the Associated Press reported.
US Virgin Islands Delegate Stacey Plaskett is also pushing the
idea of statehood: “It wasn’t until the territories … had
predominantly brown people that the United States decided that
we would remain territories in perpetuity.”[/quote]
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Re: Demographic Blueshift
By: 90sRetroFan Date: February 19, 2021, 12:39 am
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjAfOi8piMk
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Re: Demographic Blueshift
By: guest5 Date: February 22, 2021, 9:11 pm
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Texans Sent A Mariachi Band To Ted Cruz's House
[quote]Texans punked Senator Ted Cruz after he punked
Texas.[/quote]
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RO4JGGEulSc
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Re: Demographic Blueshift
By: 90sRetroFan Date: February 28, 2021, 12:20 am
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1NmFlXNu4o
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