With six words, Michelle Obama rewires America's conversation on race gift article from WaPo

[irisblue]

https://wapo.st/4fSIrNo

subtitle-"Most of us, Michelle Obama said, “will never benefit from the affirmative action of generational wealth.”


snip-"Harris “understands that most of us will never be afforded the grace of failing forward,” Obama said. “We will never benefit from the affirmative action of generational wealth. If we bankrupt a business or choke in a crisis, we don’t get a second, third or fourth chance. If things don’t go our way, we don’t have the luxury of whining or cheating others to get further ahead. No."


snip-"It’s concise, centered on two familiar concepts. The first is “affirmative action,” the term used to describe programs generally focused on ensuring that non-White Americans have access to resources and institutions they might not otherwise have. And the second is “generational wealth,” the transition of economic (and social) power through families and, at times, communities."


snip-"The linchpin of Obama’s phrase, though, is its shortest word: “of.” She isn’t contrasting affirmative action and generational wealth as conduits to power and success, she’s overlapping them. She’s noting that generational wealth is a form of affirmative action, here in the person of Trump but certainly beyond that."


snip-"One of the central debates over race in recent years has centered on existence or extent of racism embedded in American social and legal systems. The rise of the Black Lives Matter movement, focused on systemic racism in law enforcement, increased the number of White Americans — specifically, White Democrats — who indicated that they thought discrimination was a central cause for the lower incomes and worse housing many Black Americans experience."



I only get to cite 4 paragraphs. Much much more there.

[blm]

1. Electoral College is the first DEI program set up for white southern men to

Increase their role in the nation’s governance that they could never earn for themselves at the ballot box. Heritage Foundation, are you OK with ending this program?

[Ninga]

3. May I quote you?

[blm]

5. Absolutely.

[Ninga]

9. Thank you!

[irisblue]

6. We, in this forum at least, do recognize that the Electoral College was to help white southern slave holders

Keep voting power in the new country

--The Electoral College’s Racist Origins
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/electoral-colleges-racist-origins

--The history of the Electoral College and our national conversation about race
https://www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty-research/policy-topics/democracy-governance/history-electoral-college-and-our-national

⬆️⬆️3 minutes of google time there⬆️⬆️

Let alone the overlapping issue of the 3/5 compromise.

[dickthegrouch]

11. There was another fascinating article on that Harvard page

About the alignment between SCROTUS decisions and actual public sentiment. (Written in 2020). https://www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty-research/policy-topics/democracy-governance/us-supreme-court-v-american-public-opinion

Does anyone know how to find the subsequent year’s survey results?
I would think they must show a significant divergence from public opinion since then. I’d like to find support for that notion.

[irisblue]

12. I'd write to Professor Sen, you'd be going right to the source.

[dickthegrouch]

13. Thank you

[cilla4progress]

2. It was perfect.

Why is she the only one able to put it this way?

I revere her!

[irisblue]

4. She has been saying similar, in summer 2016, she spoke about how slaves helped build the White House

Bill O'Reilly freaked out..
https://www.vox.com/2016/7/26/12292322/bill-oreilly-michelle-obama-slaves-white-house

[Cirsium]

8. Perfect, yes

You are asking the right question. Why is she the only one able to put it this way?

It was like a rare, refreshing, restorative and revitalizing rain after a long drought. (Rep Crockett says that alliteration is back in style.)

[cilla4progress]

10. Huzzah

[FirstLight]

7. That remark was FIRE and I think jabs straight at their DEI bullshit!

I was hootin' & hollerin' while watching it online with my wife. We were like "...did he just...?" "She said it! " and "Helll yeah"