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"...when they go low we go high." In the streets, that advice does not work very well. Like "just say no," it sounds good, but in practice 'fighting fire with fire' is often the optimal strategy

@Mzuri Well, well, well. Where ya been, girlfriend? Obviously spending a lot time reading the fake news, which has made a living off of skewering Hillary with out-right lies and half truths. She was never charged with any of the things she was accused off in regard to Benghazi and the E-mails servers because the hearings that were held, absolved her of these partisan accusations. Admittedly she was no saint but your ad hominen attack is a bit over the top and I'm disappointed that you would use a different standard to judge a woman candidate for president who did, indeed, advocate a progressive liberal agenda that represented the Democratic Party, than the standard that you would apply to all of the corrupt, lying, womanizing, wishy-washy, male scoundrels who seek office. And I really can't believe that an intelligent woman like you would superficially characterize Hillary as looking like Howdy Doody, considering how ridiculous the bloated, mop head, orange-skinned clown she was running against looks, the egocentric loose cannon lecher and dishonest swindler who has surrounded himself with white nationalists, religious zealots, incompetent campaign contributors and suck-up former rivals, the petulant Russian lover who you'd rather take a chance on. C'mon. Admit it. Your hate of Hillary is irrational as is your embrace of a Twitter-happy case of arrested development who is at the helm of a country that will be delivered into the hands of rich, self-serving, white males by a bunch of deplorable xenophobic, misogynistic, homophobic racists who voted against their own self interest because Trump made it acceptable for them to be bigots, and conned into thinking he will make this jive-assed country "great" again. Puleeze.

As I have previously mentioned, I attended the U. of IL. with Frances Cress Welsing's sister, Lorne, and met Frances once when she came down to this campus for a homecoming weekend. As I recall she was, at that time, a rather shy person who smiled a lot, somewhat overshadowed by her older sister. Well, obviously time brings change. Anyway, I have to admit that I just now watched this video by Welsing, having not done so before because I just kept putting it off, suspecting that I wouldn't hear anything new. And I didn't. What struck me about Welsing's lecture was that, to me, she was preaching to the choir. I think a suspicion of white folks is in the DNA of slave descendants, and they've always understood that the white race feels threatened by the dark ones, which is why it is so determined to maintain control because it doesn't want people of color to obliterate and devalue whiteness or, back in the day, to stage a slave revolt or later on to integrate with them. In other words, what she is pontificating about is not a great revelation! (Not to mention that everybody knows that the human species originated in Africa!) The late Frances Cress Welsing was a couple of years younger than me, and i wonder how long it took her reach these obvious conclusions.Of course maybe younger people need to be educated to the situation just in case they've been lucky enough or in denial enough to have not noticed or experienced racial prejudice at the hands of the dominate white society. In the present, how black people cope with racism takes many forms but presenting a united front against their oppressors never gets very far because it was also in the DNA of slaves with guile to devise ways to "trick da massa", an endeavor that in its modern reincarnation consists of slave descendants circumventing racism by acting in their own personal interests and figuring out individual ways to infiltrate The System. I also happen to think that in the distant future, white skin will eventually disappear and numerous subtle shades of non-whiteness will come about. This will be when class alone determines who will rule and oppress, and the multi-hued upper class will be who does so. Hummm. Sounds like a plot for a sci-fi movie. Just some thoughts, however, of an old black woman disillusioned by a resurgence of white nationalism.

The bottom line is that Hillary lost because she sucks as a human being, a woman, and a politician. She never had a substantive message except what she stole from Sanders/Warren and rehashed from Obama. She told one whopper of a stupid lie after another as if ppl were too dumb to know that she was lying, Wikileaks exposed her and her cronies' plotting, scheming and corruptness, she belittled ALL voters when she called the electorate "deplorables" (ain't that the pot calling the kettle) and all the other missteps that were the mark of an amateur - not the seasoned politician her befuddled, deluded mind thought she was. That entire email server fiasco might have been fine if she used it for her personal business (raising money for her presidential campaign while SOS) and used the State Dept server for official govt business like all other govt employees are required to do. One of her excuses for the illegal email setup was that the State Dept's email system was antiquated. If that was really the case, wouldn't that have been her responsibility to correct as the HMFIC? She was unable think on her feet since she required debate/interview questions in advance and placed plants in the crowd during audience question events, and she needed to debate prep for several days to practice her lame zingers. The woman can't even run her own husband but she's going to preside over the rest of us? WTF? And then there was Bengazi, Whitewater, Goldwater and on and on. Have y'all seen all of the negative books that have been written about her? I guess she thought that by employing Lebron, Beyonce and J-Lo we Black ppl were all going to fall in line. I think that after she got beatdown by Obama in 2008 she should have sat her flat behind down then instead of wasting everybody's time. I'm so relieved that I won't have to see her howdy-doody looking face anymore. I'd rather deal with a crazy unpredictable President Trump any day.

I truly believe the profit-seeking, corporate-controlled, emotion-driven, social media-fueled "news" we consume is the problem. Social media distorts the truth in such a way that we have no clue what our problems are or what the solutions could be; which is why 1/2 the country believes Donald Trump is the answer to ur prayers.