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I'm specifically talking about you, and speaking even more broadly to white leftists. I'm keenly aware that there are Black leftists. You chose not to engage in my critique, and pivoted to the equivalent of "I have Black friends too", instead of responding to a valid critique of things that arose during the Sanders' campaign.
You were just talking about how the left is a distinct and separate entity from black people. It was useful to point out that the left and black people aren't mutually exclusive. But I do suppose I have black comrades and it’s great, actually.
A lot of those black comrades have ideas of how to give black Americans human and civil rights, which they have surely been denied, as well as extending those same rights to all poor people and people in the global South and to America's millions of human beings held under carceral control and we got to protect the millions s of people being starved to death as a result of American imperial foreign policy.
You say listen to black voices but I know that you want pro capitalist black voices to be heard and black leftists to be ignored or dismissed as props used by white leftists. You’re cynically playing off groups of marginalized people against each other because your liberalism draws a narrower line of demarcation between who is and is not fully human. That line of demarcation includes far more than the conservative line but it excludes a multitude of people and the only defense of that is to make bad faith attacks on those who want all people to be considered human as a matter of state policy.
If you don’t feel abject terror knowing that Biden-Harris is the absolute best America can do in the face of fascism and climate collapse, I don’t what more to tell you.