And who have I hired so far?
A PoC single mother.
A minority LGBT man, who will be my 2nd in command.
A white male over 55 with a chronic illness and out of work for over a year.
A white woman.
All the jobs are full time, with benefits, paid leave, and base salaries at least $65k/yr, two at 6 figures, all bonus out over 6 figures. All will work from home (for now), excepting the travel required (and paid for of course by my company). All will be equipped with really nice laptops (Lenova Yoga 900 convertibles, nice!) and other tech. All will be empowered and treated with respect. We will have fun as a team and the work we’ll be doing will change lives in rural America (as I’ve done my whole career).
Do I want brownie points? I love chocolate, but I most want to send a clear message to all the Daily Kos sexist!! and racist!! label-tossing gang tacklers here, that you just may be the real bigots in this joint, and you need to check yourselves. You’ve no fucking clue about the people you slander here. What have YOU done today to lift people up? I fucking hired good people into great jobs; you found more innocent people to slander on the Internet.
I suggest you instead look deep within and try to heal the wounds that make you lash out with drive-by slandering. I am sorry for the pain inflicted upon you, but we are not the ones who hurt you. You need to understand that your slandering is nothing more than bullying — you have become what you claim to fight. I can’t even begin to count the times your ilk have implied (always the passive aggressive ones) I’m sexist or racist. But, while you make me angry, I damned sure won’t hold good people of diversity responsible for assholes hiding under their own diversity who pretend to be righteous.
So how has this come to pass? I’ve accepted a gig as president of a new company coming into the U.S. I get to build a team of my own choosing, so I chose the best in my view for what I need. Their demographic characteristics just happened to be as they are, and I think that’s how things should work. We will all be very busy, and my more leisurely days of hanging out on the DKos corner are over.
But, beyond that, given the move by the DNC today to open the floodgates to unlimited corporate cash in an effort to crush Sanders, I refuse to associate myself with this party. I’m all in on Bernie’s efforts to remake the party, but clearly now wonder if his sense of honor to work within the system was a mistake. If he loses fairly, no foul, but the efforts of the Party show it has a vulgar disdain for a people-powered movement. When they could be celebrating this massive grass roots awakening and chosen to operate with objectivity, it instead has made the calculation that corporate power must be maintained at all costs.
I won’t support that.
There are many of you with whom I disagree, many strongly, but I respect some of you greatly. You know who you are because I’ve told you so. You’ve earned respect because you don’t play the double standards game. Real character is found among the intellectually honest. Real cowards and the enablers of mass slaughter are those who excuse “their side” any infraction. Whether you be a “good cop” or a political partisan, people who don’t hold their friends to account are ultimately the most dangerous people on the planet because you make it all possible for the monsters to do their work unmolested.
Have a nice day. Maybe we’ll see each other in the comment threads. And Bernie, this non-religious person wishes you Godspeed, may you inspire a generation who build enough power to finally rid the planet of neo everything. I apologize for not holding to you $27 average, because I’m maxing out for you in the primary and the general.