Eastland was known as the “Voice of the White South.” He opposed the Civil Rights Act, complained of “mongrelization,” and spoke of black people as “an inferior race.” He may have liked you, @JoeBiden. He still voted to undermine our humanity. You just disproved your whole point.https://twitter.com/IsaacDovere/status/1141157838481498113 …
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Biden actually disproves the very point he aims to make. He seems to imply that his record of coddling racists prepares him well for working with today’s Republican. But folks like Eastland made Biden feel like part of the club of whiteness while still subjugating black people.
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Enlisting the white moderate’s help in suppression, whether through direct action or other forms of complicity, is an essential weapon of white supremacy. Eastland was trying to kill us, and Biden talks about him like he was his goddamned buddy. Well, because that is what he was.
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I could write for days about this, but I have to go feed and walk my puppy. I’ll just say again: please think more critically about these candidates. Now is when we should vet them, not later. We have plenty to choose from. Consider who is taking us, and this process, seriously.
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Eastland worked with the Mississippi Sovereignty Commission—which, per
@KWestSavali, aided and abetted in the assassinations of civil rights leaders. “Yet, he was apparently not only a model of civility for Biden,” she writes, “but a political accomplice.”https://www.essence.com/news/politics/joe-biden-james-o-eastland-mississippi/ …Show this thread
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I definitely feel like if you cornered him on the issue he'd say something like "Hey, I helped get Obama elected. You owe me one, right?".
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first y'all were saying the dnc is pushing Kamala, then Beto, then mayor pete now the dnc is pushing Biden? Y'all sound like trump voters. Biden is leading now cause dem voters want him.....for now a least.
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He seems more and more out of touch. Shockingly so but maybe I overestimated him
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This campaign is too much for me. He's growing more angry and erratic every day. I sincerely hope he drops out soon.
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Well, he look at the polls and he sees his numbers among black people, so....
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