Comments | besquared: We shall overcome

besquared

We shall overcome

Nov 05, 2008 17:43

On Bacon's Rebellion, Proposition Eight, and the 2008 Presidential Election.Today I have noticed an alarming trend in the entries and comments on my friends lists. That, in the 2008 election, we have somehow exchanged one oppression for another. That this burden has been passed like a note or a cold virus from one person or group of persons to the ( Read more... )

feel it in my feet

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thelionforreal November 5 2008, 23:20:28 UTC

i place my blame solely on fundamentalist christians religious groups and voters that stayed home. and orange county. (heh.)

we are going to get there. we are moving forward. we will get there.

we just have to wait.

besquared November 5 2008, 23:37:25 UTC

haha!

yes. DEEP BREATH. that's what i keep telling myself.

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besquared November 6 2008, 03:22:26 UTC

oh yes, i agree with you. i didn't mean to imply that people should turn blind eye to the prejudice that lies in communities of color. my intention was to hilight the ways in which the ruling class has systemically implemented and enforced these divisions between minority communities.

we need to focus on uniting all the people that are getting screwed in order to help all of us.

yup! i think we're saying the same things with different words. we absolutely need to join together to heal differences and build relationships. which is what i meant by:

In the end, there is no one person or group of persons we can prosecute for this crime. It's counterintuitive and harmful to our larger struggle for universal liberty.

because i think we're all in this together. we must be hip to the insidious nature of oppression and challenge ourselves to examine the ways our own prejudice can manifest in our daily lives.

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besquared November 6 2008, 04:48:43 UTC

:DDD

oh, god. yeah. what blows is i'll probably be voting democratic for the next decade or so (until there's a shift in our two party system? maybe? am i being too hopeful here?) but by and large the democratic party can suck my gay dick. obama... i think he works within the constraints of the title "democrat." he's probably going to bump up against many of his fellow party members in the next four years, and i look forward to watching it all play out.