I don’t even know what to say about this POLITICO piece: ‘It Was My Primal Scream,’
I’ve knocked 25K doors in my life for Democrats here in Indiana. Every time a door opens, my life is at risk. I am keenly aware of that, and have been threatened on myriad occasions.
As a S. Asian American who grew up before the Civil Rights Movement, I don’t even consider the election season to have begun, until I get my “N-Word prize.”
I am just astounded. So I will post two of my favorite YouTube videos. This is titled the “greatest speech ever” and I happen to agree that these are some fairly fine words (spoken right here in Indiana, which is — yes — not exactly a state with a tremendous amount of uplifting history when it comes to numerous issues related to discrimination):
While John Coltrane’s music is hardly as brilliant in many ways as the Classical composers whom I adore, it captures the suffering of people in a way that no other artist has ever conveyed to me. Here is A Love Supreme:
I am just utterly speechless.
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Not to go Godwin here, but … oh WTH:
After all the work we have done here in the red states, all the death threats, all the ethnic, sexist and orientation-based slurs against everyone, all the history of the 20th Century (and BEFORE) …. good grief!!
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I feel sorry for her. And for everyone else who will suffer under The Orange Menace.
I am trying hard to empathize. But I can’t. I can only sympathize, and not because I think I’m morally superior. I have previously blamed myself for not working hard enough, and I take personal responsibility for the horrific nature of this dreadful state.
I fear that many of you do not know who Pence truly is — not yet.
P.S.: Please read the POLITICO article before you comment on the cartoon. It’s on-topic.