A Black woman has just been appointed to something. You know the drill:
GOP:
Why appoint based on race?! Just appoint the best person for the job, which is never a Black woman!
Dems:
Black women will save us! Can I call you auntie? (No). I love Black women! Just... NTBW (Not That Black Woman).
@mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io rinse and repeat, ad nauseam. We need a new script
@mekkaokereke one thing i wonder why americans keep calling the republican fascist party "grand old". That party doesn't resemble the party it once was in my world.
@mekkaokereke clown show for sure
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Unless the Clarence Thomas strategy is being employed, in which a reactionary black person is being put forward:
GOP:
You have to vote for her! Aren’t you always going on about the importance of representation?
Conservative Dems:
I know she advocates policies that will hurt ordinary people (and black people and women especially), but I have to vote for a black woman in this role.
(See Michigan AG candidate Karamo, Portland and Philly police chief Outlaw, … etc)
@mekkaokereke I haven't heard anything negative from Dems about Laphonza Butler. Sure, you can always nutpick in a nation of 333 million, but I think she sounds great.
@mekkaokereke shouldn't put those two statements together; it makes it appear as if they are equal. They are not. And while you can probably find a dem somewhere with that attitude, it's an order of magnitude lower than what you'll find on the other side...
Now if you state your first condition twenty times... and then your second condition once, maybe it'd be more representative...
You shouldn't tell me what to do.
I did put them together. Specifically under the heading: Garbage that Black people have to hear whenever a highly qualified Black woman is appointed to anything.
You're free to not put them together on your timeline. On my timeline? They're together.
I don't care about how many more fashy people have truly awful takes. "Hey, at least we're better than open fascists!" is not the bar.
I want non-fashy people to be aware of their NTBW.
@mekkaokereke As someone who was enthusiastic about the choice because the appointee was an African American LGBT woman, what kind of response from us would you like to see?
For the record, I wouldn't ask a US senator or VPOTUS if I can call them auntie.
As of 2016, There had been 9 Black men (3 during Reconstruction) and 1 Black woman elected to the Senate. One of the men was not seated.
At this time, there had been 1917 men seated as senators and 46 women. I could only find three US Senators that were not seated at all.
As of 2016, 0.47% of all men elected to the US Senate had been Black. 2.17% of all women elected to the US Senate had been Black. 33.3% of all US Senators not seated at all after election have been Black.
Choosing to address two historically underrepresented classes of Americans in this selection is unquestionably good.
Do you want to talk about other classes of Americans that are underrepresented in the halls of American leadership? Let's fucking go, but not at the expense of another group's success.
This nomination isn't the end goal, it's just a demonstration that progress, even if it's small, is possible. Celebrate it or demonstrate that progress isn't your goal.
@liminoid_space @mekkaokereke
I mean, professional Putin lapdog and Q-Anon fan boy Ron Johnson won over Manela Barnes in WI, in the same election Tony Evers, a Dem, won as governor.
@mekkaokereke I can confirm that your depiction of Dems is spot-on, I can even hear it in the appropriate college-educated Mid-Atlantic accent.
I want to curse you for making me hear it, but I can't be mad at a man when he's right.
@mekkaokereke Some of us are old enough to remember Dr Joycelyn Elders. She was hung out to dry once the hate brigade started :(
Bill Clinton you dirty motherfucker