feeling rebloggy
In one corner, you have people who are absolutely enthused by the fact that a black woman is throwing her hat into the biggest ring possible, Shirley Chisholm-style. The fact that she’s a graduate of Howard University and a member of a Divine Nine organization (Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.) gives folks like me an extra feeling of kinship. She’s been in the same type of spaces I’ve been in, which enables me to be willing to hear her out on stances she’s taken that are absolutely problematic.
In the opposite corner are people who couldn’t care less about where she’s from or who she did what with. Her record in California—especially as a prosecutor (as my boy Jason says, “her job was specifically to put black men in jail”)—rightly conjures the notion that your skinfolks ain’t your kinfolks (absolutely true, more on this at another time). For that reason, niggas are out and trying to get other folks out on her.
Then you have motherfuckers tossing birtherism into the fold. Good god.
On a personal level, as I’ve said, I’m willing to give her the space to address any and all concerns folks may have about her political past. I’ve read more than enough to know I don’t agree with many of her stances on criminal justice, but I can’t imagine she doesn’t know this either. I will assume she’s smart enough to have considered how to address those issues, either positively or negatively, in a fashion to mobilize whomever she deems her base. Maybe it isn’t me, but I don’t know that yet...
~VerySmartBrothas
Read More: https://verysmartbrothas.theroot.com/i-dont-know-how-were-going-to-make-it-through-this-camp-1831965272?
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