Want to lift this up because it’s a demonstration of how bleak it is for anyone who claims to care about Black people right now. - ThreadSky

chadstanton.bsky.social • 4 days ago

Want to lift this up because it’s a demonstration of how bleak it is for anyone who claims to care about Black people right now.

Reposted from Zack Pizzaz

Rahm Emanuel creeping back onto the national scene after conducting a cover up after the murder of a child in the name of beating down “identity politics” is beyond parody.

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feemus.bsky.social•4 days ago

How are Rahm Emmanuel and Andrew Cuomo making a comeback in this environment? I live in Buffalo and have not met anyone so wants to re-elect Cuomo.

ireidani.bsky.social•3 days ago

Are they actually making a comeback or are the Trump-neutered media simply trying to make it happen?

feemus.bsky.social•3 days ago

I hope you are right!. I read this from MSN—maybe not a reliable source? https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/socialist-lawmakers-neck-and-neck-in-nyc-race-for-mayor-but-still-lag-behind-cuomo-in-latest-poll/ar-AA1A11n3

callielowenstein.bsky.social•4 days ago

They know a bunch of rich people. It’s really just that.

judalicious.bsky.social•4 days ago

They’re also cisgender, heterosexual, fully-abled white men, so they have all of those earned assets to trade in on.

callielowenstein.bsky.social•4 days ago

Yep for sure. For these guys the only way to fail is upward.

feemus.bsky.social•4 days ago

“These guys” is right. I am an academic, and I have seen many brilliant and hardworking women and minorities succeed and be kicked downward.

judalicious.bsky.social•4 days ago

Me too. My husband was literally driven from his math department at Williams College because he refused to sit silently while his nearly all-white, cisgender male department plotted and executed the sabotage of the careers of the women of color in his department.

feemus.bsky.social•4 days ago

You must be right. There is such a visceral hatred for Cuomo, though. I thought I was unshockable, but after the
Covid rollercoaster, I thought he was too toxic to make a comeback.

chadstanton.bsky.social•4 days ago

And yeah naming him an ambassador absolutely helped to facilitate his rehabilitation.

aaronblackshear.bsky.social•4 days ago

This is the dude who said he didn't give a shit about judges, and somehow he's been held up as this master strategist

tinclock.bsky.social•4 days ago

it makes me furious

chadstanton.bsky.social•4 days ago

It’s like lifting up the mayor of Ferguson as a leading voice people need to follow.

chadstanton.bsky.social•4 days ago

And it should be an absolute indictment against the political leaders and media heads who’ve decided that Rahm was either unfairly maligned or has somehow redeemed himself after, again, leading a cover up on a kid’s murder.

doixuan.bsky.social•4 days ago

Identity politics is White politics. Always was.
It is also the only identity politics allowed.

maggiekat.bsky.social•4 days ago

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