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Atlanta mayoral race shows risks of privileged progressives making perfect the enemy of good https://interc.pt/2BHo0z3  by @ShaunKing

With all due respect to you and Mr. King, this is a strong NOPE from me. I cannot read one more piece about this race and blaming progressives for not embracing Bottoms. We CAN'T realistically sit here and say what the Reed administration w/ Bottoms as his right hand, has done...

Hey Stacey. Did you read my piece? I'm not blaming progressives for the Atlanta race, but using the stuff "progressives" said to me directly to highlight an important problem. I hope you will check it out.

Wow, you actually replied. I did and still have a problem with this. The entire piece is presumed upon notion that there was an actual progressive to choose from (there wasn't) and that progressive owe Democrats their votes. They don't and not mutually exclusive to Dems.

I agree, it's a problem but made more so by insisting progressives and Democrats are somehow the same and tired of hearing establishment Dems coopt the nom du jour, "progressive." There needs to be a line of demarcation between the two.

There are many other policies I could name. But I think what we are saying is that neoliberal Democrats practice a racism that is as destructive to Black Lives as conservatives. It’s not what they say, it’s what they DO.

Black Democrats from our time at Morehouse (Franklin & Campbell) to now (Reed & Bottoms) have passed the policies that have so decimated Black Atlanta and gentrified north Atlanta that it is poised to become a Latte City.