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Shaun King is a dangerous provocateur who peddles in racialist "false news."
He has blood on his hands and has done more to sow discord than probably any other recently, as his painfully myopic and false stories are CONSTANTLY showing up and being shared by people in my social media circles.
It's very alarming some of the stuff he posts. Not because of the actual content but how people just believe everything he posts without questioning anything.
It's very alarming some of the stuff he posts. Not because of the actual content but how people just believe everything he posts without questioning anything.
Shaun King is a dangerous provocateur who peddles in racialist "false news."
He has blood on his hands and has done more to sow discord than probably any other recently, as his painfully myopic and false stories are CONSTANTLY showing up and being shared by people in my social media circles.
thanks for reminding me why I have no social media circles.
Who the **** is Shuan King? I hope he's not taken too seriously though. This entirely article was entirely superficial. All about the skin color of party leadership and does nothing to address policy. It also shoots itself in the foot by pointing out it's own failing. King says that some 80% of black voters voted for Hillary. He's trying to create a narrative that black people feel the Democratic party isn't for them, but the numbers he gave don't actually reflect that.
If you want to criticize the Democratic party for something, I'd look to the fact that they had a fantastic, principled, and popular candidate whom they sidelined for the person they'd been planning on running since at least 2010. The Democrats were lucky Bernie chose to run. They were however unlucky that many millennials felt he was the first politician to truly resonate with them and when he was pushed aside by party leadership, they felt detached from the party entirely. Millennial turn out wasn't great. I think I saw somewhere that a lot of millennial males preferred Trump to Clinton. I think from that same demographic however, most millennials thought Clinton would do more for women's rights but the same age range of women thought Bernie would do more for women's rights. Bernie was struggling to keep the racial minority vote but this is because he didn't make everything about race and instead focused on class. Only a truly unobservant person could think his policy wouldn't be beneficial (well, beneficial as a manner of point of view; obviously conservatives don't agree) to racial minorities as well.
In short: the Democrats lost in this election entirely becasue they ran their best friend instead of running the most qualified.
The Democrats are losing at least in part because of a identity politics, and he wants to see more identity politics.
The country is not majority black, and never will be. As Hispanics become a bigger voting percentage, many will become more conservative and identify less with being LLLLLLLLLLLLLAtino and more with being American.
Being the party of blacks, hispanics, gays, and feminists is not going to be enough to win national elections.
The Democrats had an opportunity to capture the populist vote by moving more towards populist positions on economic issues, and instead they put a candidate with just as many ties to Wall St up as the answer.
I think its funny that some of you posters are saying you don't know who this guy is when he is one of the BLM "leaders" you are always talking about lol.
FWIW, I am black and I know for a fact that people question him. He recently posted something I saw on FB about the election and how "we" (meaning Democrats) should have "backed" HRC more, it was primarily black people calling him out on the fact that Shaun King himself was one of those urber Bernie supporters who were rallying the most liberal of the Democratic party away from voting for HRC and if Bernie was the nomination to not support her. People listened to him because they are naive. So he is a hypocrite and IMO on that and many people called that out to him. I didn't see him reply either, but writing controversial things is his job.
But, I don't view him all that negatively. He is similar to Cornell West to me. Writes a lot of nutty stuff but seems like a decent enough guy.
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