@Azazello

is tired of identity politics.'

(A Boswell footnote.)

Identity Politics is the last refuge of a Neoliberal.

@Cassiodorus
"Hello Facebook, I need a list of at least 400 likely Biden AA supporters. That's right, old, don't know anything but what NBC tells them, scared of The Man, but has never been arrested or had a family member shot by the cops. $1 million? That's cheap. Do you take AmEx?"

He's given dreadful reviews every time he goes in public, and the billionaires are deserting him, but he's still scoring high poll numbers. So who are they?

@dystopian

Jimmy Carter builds homes for others. Obama has others build a temple for him on park land.

Funny how Obama is soooooo vain he still sees himself as some great coalition builder. When in reality he destroyed the Democratic Party. Lost a thousand seats under his mis-leadership, his queen of the DNC he chose had to resign in shame, and his chosen successor was told to F off. And he still needs some kind of sign. Meanwhile he waits in the shadows for the chance to pounce and beat any progressive movement like Bernie's back.

And they wonder why the next new Obama 2.0, 3.0, and 4.0 aren't taking off?????????? Obama screwed many away from the party for good. I hope he is satisfied with his con, bank, and houses, for he destroyed it for many, not the least of which is black candidates behind him. Especially if they sound like a neolib.

He woke a lot of people up to how easy it is for a con to bamboozle you. He is a pro con.

@edg "and Seminole Indian ancestors" Just wondering...do your ancestors know Liz Warren's people?

I'm holding out for a left-handed 6' 5" white male aged 63 who's descended from a combination of Polish, Finish, Irish, and Seminole Indian ancestors and whose favorite things to do are computer programming, playing rock music on bass guitar, reading escapist novels, and playing with his two long-hair Chihuahuas. Oh, and it wouldn't hurt if he felt exactly the way I do on every issue, was born in Detroit, and is an Army veteran. That's not much to ask for, now is it?

@mimi I don't ever think of her as "black", but I am nonplussed when she's describes as a "person of color". Her mother is white. Her father is "of Samoan, American, and European descent". Is this one of those "one drop and you's black" scenarios? In any case, I DON'T CARE.

And neither should anyone else.

Around 1982 (new arrival to the US) I got in a discussion with my 'black enough black husband' about a news anchor, who was 'too white a black man' for me and a 'black enough black man' for him (my husband). He asked me: "Can't you see he is a black man?" "No", I said, "I see him as white enough to be a white man". (We both started laughing at that point) I have forgotten what the political issue was the anchor had talked about.

When Obama came along to campaign for President, the question of a black person, whose analysis I always listen to carefully - Dr. Cornel West - got me in troubles.

Dr. West - back then - asked the question: "Is Obama black enough"? Oh my, how did Cornel West confused my guts with that question. I got mental diarrhea. Was Cornel West asking a racist question?

Can't be, I thought. Dr. West tried to help voters with their potential guts' feelings to hesitate to support Obama. Obama might a presidential candidate, who was too black for a white voter and not black enough for a black voter. After all this is a reasonable assumption. I concluded that Cornell's question was a a non-racist attempt to hint that a refusal of Obama's candidacy is not a racist feeling. Tricky, tricky, Dr. West. I still am not over that question, but I do love my "dear brother Cornell" for what he says. And I am lily white and blonde. Definitely too white for supporting a black enough intellectual like Dr. West.(forgive me folks, it is just too much fun to spew out shitty snark)

I found this article: Black public intellectuals: from du bois to the present. I am a weak, fainting, pale, pearl clutching woman and have not enough stamina to read through the article right now, but I assume and hope there is something in it for you, that helps you to cure any mental diarrhea you might have over the 'blackishness issues'. (Oops, apparently the article was disappeared through the last hour or so. Sigh).

(For that matter I always was somewhat glad to not be allowed to vote in the US as a legal permanent resident green card holder, because I hate making decisions between two not-evil enough, but still not too-good enough options).

What about this question?

"Why are not all women supporting their female candidates?"

It leads me back to remember my feelings towards Hillary Clinton.
Why didn't I trust HER? And since when did I have these guts' feelings about HER?

Ah, you know, like always, there are the little nuggets of outbreaks of the candidate's feelings that might have the most impact on voters to make up their mind. Young Hillary Clinton sitting aside from her 'igitt=ugh', but highly talented, white enough, but wanna-be a little blackisher, husband'. She told the world that she won't sit back silently and bake cookies. I couldn't help thinking, but that's exactly what you do, sitting aside him, and try to profit from him. Who cares about the damn cookies anyway? Damned I was.I know, you know the video clip by heart by now. So, do I need to post it? I hope not.

(OT. BTW, It reminded me, that I was the one, who always made the coffee for my too black husband, and it took me some time to realize that actually he could make the coffee for me too, some day, right? Equal justice for the working woman, seufz. So... at least my coffee was blacker and more tasty than what he could ever have cooked up...)

So, now we have three (oops I forgot one, no even two, sorry) women to choose from. All good things are three (oops four, oops five, sorry Amy and Marianne)

Warren, Harris, Gabbard.. So little time to think, but enough time to have guts's feelings for a too white voter like me.

Warren: For me she is too fuzzy running around being too white, and then black enough and not having a clear home base to work from. She is nice, but still not convincing or trust-worthy enough to really stand up for me, a 'white stockholme syndrome afflicted female black folks supporter'. (damn be my English)

Harris: She wants to signal that her melanine makes her black enough, but not black enough to be considered a traitor for the white voter? Then she needs to hide her smirky smiles and inner arrogance. Harris is a too white a candidate in black clothing. My guts' feeling just give me another mental diarrhea. I need some medication, doctor. Help me, I don't want to be a racially-challenged voter. And I don't want to be mean, either.

Gabbard: Ha, people say she is a woman of color (but not that other color which is just too much of a color) and that's the reason they would vote for her. I rubbed my eyes again. Is Tulsi black or is she white? I ask that in all seriousness of a silly person. "None of the above", folks say, she has something like Asian or some sort of watery-colored slightly beige-brown anchestors.

Who cares about Tulsi's melanine? My guts are tellng me she has a fighting spirit. And I like that. It's kind of a relief that people never know, if folks with a mish-mash asian-indian melanine level are too black or too white or may be too 'non-transparent' colorwise. Grey is my favorite 'non-colored and non-transparent' color now.

(You remember the story of too evil to be a black enough do gooder, Idi Amin? How he used the not white enough and not black enough people of India? I mean those people in Uganda, who were from India and Indians with portuguese descent. He played and sold them out against white folks and the black folks of African peasants, you know those farming in 'shithole countries'. Yeah, he managed to oppress, kill, threaten and upset them all. End of story. Never look back, it's something you wouldn't be happy to have witnessed in person).

Now, I have to admit, as I said above already, I like the grey people, like me. I trust the Old White Haired man, because he was consistant in his fights for social justice during his life-time. Like Tulsi, he is a fighter. He has white enough hair and she has black enough hair, but her strain of grey is just too graciously delicate to not be mentioned. So all my colored desires are met within the two of them. 'Black lives matter'? Of course, who didn't know that? Was it necessary to point that out to the old man? I never felt it would have been necessary. But you know, may be being safe than better sorry is the motto.

Say something.

I got grey hair too by now, and the only question lingering in my mind writing this comment is:

Was I racist enough to please you? If not, consider me a not good-enough German.

Nothing for Ungood.
Peace.

I have to cook me a coffee now. My lazy butt husband is dead and he wouldn't have cooked me one anyhow. That's life.

Do you love life like I do?

Love this place for letting me talk my mind. Thanks to JtC and Joe, no matter how much the C99p-ers may dislike my 'not-being-nice enough'.

This wanted to come out.

@MinuteMan

Until the 5th of Never. We've got two parties of identity politics. Repubs play on anxiety and fear of the other color (no brothers from another mother in that party). And Dems play on inclusiveness and compassion for the downtrodden rainbow-hued peoples of the world (so long as they vote early and often for Democrats).

Maybe it's of those privilege things I keep hearing about but I was never under the illusion that electing someone who looked like me was going to make things better for people like me because of their looks. It's no doubt true for the greedheads and their symbiotes but for the ready of us not so much. How long do you think it'll be before the media symbiotes stop peddling such nonsense?