This poster has it nailed perfectly.
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@NikkiBarnesHere’s the issue that parts of white America have with Black people. And I’m speaking specifically about the openly racist elements of the Republican Party and the DSA activists trying to reshape the Democratic Party.
Black Americans are a smaller percentage of the population, but we wield enormous electoral power because of where we are geographically concentrated, particularly throughout the South. The reality is that many Democratic candidates cannot win office without overwhelming support from Black voters. That’s the math, and that’s the source of the frustration.
The DSA is approaching politics primarily through the lens of class. Black America has always had to navigate both race and class. For generations, we’ve fought to gain access to economic opportunity, not because capitalism has always worked for us, but because we’ve historically been excluded from wealth. That’s why our families have encouraged paths that can create generational stability, whether through entrepreneurship, higher education, skilled trades, or athletics. We don’t apologize for wanting economic security after centuries of being denied it.
The same misunderstanding shows up in the attacks on the Jewish community. Jewish institutions have long invested in building community through philanthropy, education, entrepreneurship, and mutual support. Those traditions have helped create resilient institutions and opportunities that benefit countless people beyond their own community.
When Black and Jewish communities work together, you see two groups that understand what it means to survive discrimination while also believing in building institutions, creating opportunity, and investing in future generations. That coalition has accomplished real change, and that’s exactly why some people find it threatening.
Instead of confronting the economic and political failures within their own movements or families, some activists try to convince Black voters that our priorities should be subordinated to their ideological project. We’re not interested in that. Our communities have spent generations organizing, building, voting, and creating institutions that uplift people. We won’t abandon that work to satisfy someone else’s political theory.
The Black and Jewish coalition remains strong. We intend to continue building power, expanding opportunity, and defeating efforts to divide us. Move accordingly.
1:13 AM · Jul 26, 2026
https://x.com/NikkiBarnes/status/2081186149733703834
The question is why we don’t have national healthcare. The response is brutal and honest, and a slice of American history that the ‘ class not race’ people want to ignore.
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@freepeeper
Ignore the questioner. Pay attention to Thom Hartmann’s comprehensive and accurate response.
https://x.com/freepeeper/status/2081353913370857641
Heather Cox Richardson reviewed the enactment of Medicare (60 years ago today) in her Letters To An American. This was my comment in response to her post:
Kathleen
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I was in the debate club my freshman year in high school (1963-1964). The national debate question was about Medicare. I chose to represent the affirmative position and did the research needed to present my case why Medicare should become law. Fast forward to the debate about ACA decades later, during which I noted all of the objections to Medicare were recycled almost word for word in the objections to the ACA. Side note – I just saw a brief clip in which Tom Hartman pointed out that the opposition to national health care going back to FDR was that Black people would also benefit, which has remained the not so sub texty reason it’s been so difficult to achieve.
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Good morning. Great post.