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You’re seriously telling a black man whose people have always had to compromise their political goals and deal with small incremental changes for over multiple centuries that coalitions are necessary? You can’t be a serious person? Start by telling those upset about affirmative action that. SMH

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I disagree, but regardless of who they're trying to win, I wish them luck with the strategy.

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Either way he's not the first person to use Martin Luther King too further their political agenda irrespective of it aligning with King at all.

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King's proposal is considered a precursor to modern affirmative action policies, calling for special measures to correct systemic inequalities. Kahlenberg either didn't truly understand what King was actually calling for or he's misinterpreting purposely.

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I'm speaking of MLK's Bill of Rights for the Disadvantaged. I can't share the actual article because it's behind a paywall but the race conscious part was...

Just for historical reference The New Deal built the middle class, largely just for white people because it was highly discriminatory. I have no confidence that the same thing won’t happen again. Anytime there’s broadbase legislation somehow discrimination makes its way in.

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I dubious that a pure class struggle agenda addresses systemic inequities Black people face. Plus, Dems won't win back white voters lost to the Southern Strategy; 60 years of ingrained messaging is too deep in their psyche. But hey, I wish them luck without black voters. 🤷🏾‍♂️

You decided to share an article about what Martin Luther King wanted as a way to defend the author you tell me.

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I don’t know for sure, but it feels like Kahlenberg it would be one of the white moderates that King mentioned in the letter from a Birmingham jail.

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Nick Anderson - political cartoonist @andertoon.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

First, King’s proposal was to Be Class-Based but Race-Conscious. Nothing in the current article establishes a race conscious framework. Ultimately, I find it disingenuous for people to tell MLK when he was the most hated man, regardless of his political agenda, and ultimately died for it.

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Raising the Flag Follow my work and writing on Substack: nickanderson.substack.com

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Right, it's so tiring. While I'm not a huge fan of the party it seems that they also have to be everything to everyone while somehow bringing in voters that have been conditioned not to vote for them.

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He wrote this 6 years ago, it seems as though he’s changed his prospective in the current article.

Exactly, for many white voters politics is a zero sum game. Any help to Black people even in a broad policy is no go (e.g. Universal Healthcare). Couple that with Republicans having stellar messaging, hence why we’re here, Dems lose the black vote while not picking up the votes they courted.

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Please explain this and provide some actual data?

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Unfortunately, history has shown us that when the focus is purely socioeconomic. It does not in fact, benefit Black people.

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Bryant Seaton @bdot1276.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Every Dem autopsy concludes identity politics and the crumbs thrown to Black people, alienates white voters, leading them to jettison Black people. In this current environment, Black voters are primed to stay home. I wish the Dems luck courting a white base that already despises them.

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Are you not seeing the people in this country? A large proportion of the people you need to convince to vote for Dems see them as the “radical left.” Then you have people saying you need to lean more left. All the right has is we hate the left and that’s enough for them to vote.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

If you can’t sell your soybeans because of Trump’s tariffs after Argentina stepped in and took your customers, you can take solace that the guy you voted for also just gave $20 billion of your tax dollars to the country that is bankrupting you.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

there's a weird feedback loop where the media's reaction to kirk's death pushes you to speak more ill of the dead than you otherwise would because it's the only reasonable response to the simpering praise they're heaping on him

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Just thinking about how the right made up an entirely fictional left wing character that resulted in so many bomb threats and the like and nobody will face consequences. But people on the left who accurately clocked the victim’s life work lost jobs.

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Bryant Seaton @bdot1276.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Empathy for his family specifically because he called empathy a "made-up, New Age term that has done a lot of damage". This quote (and many others) highlight why this coverage is trash.

Bryant Seaton @bdot1276.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

I was little just saying this! Like we don’t have to make up a person to talk about this horrific incident.

Blocked hmm, odd conversation to block somebody for. 🤷🏾‍♂️ If you’re still here, let me point out why the metallica analogy is incorrect as well. It’s true. Metallica will still sell, but if they decided to put out a folk or country album that’s definitely a risk regardless of their established brand.

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So your original post is not logical because by your definition the corporate drone can’t take “any risks at all” anyway. bsky.app/profile/dirt...

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If I understand your twisted agreement correctly, Disney would have to spin up a new studio and new IP, secretly (so no one knows it’s Disney 🤣) to prove they have taken any risk in your mind? Have I got that right?

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The conversation is about established brands. 🤣 And, as you see some of the MCU and SW media did not sell no matter what. Disney has taken risks in their animated studio. We’ve had new material regularly. If your issue is big corps suck I agree but saying Disney is completely risk averse is silly.

No risks? James Gunn Rian Johnson Ryan Cooglar Garth Edwards The Eternals Andor Etc Would like a word.

🤣 you’re welcome! Let me know if you need any advice!

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I used to use Picassa as well. I use Synology photos now. It’s a software that comes along with the NAS I purchased.

No one would ever tell someone marching for the release of the hostages in Gaza that they need to stop waving the Israeli flag. Nor should they! The hypocrisy in this country is staggering!

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I also set up a service like Google photos to back up all the photos of the folks in my house. It has an app and facial recognition to categorize pictures just like Google photo. Google is looking to charge us more for backing up our own stuff.

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About a 1 1/2 years ago I set up a NAS (actually a few) and started the process of digitizing all my movies and shows from blu-ray/DVD, along with other stuff. I set up a streaming server so that I have access to all my stuff, in case the the licensing changed on streamers or blu-ray players died…