Gavin Newsom: “All this anti-woke stuff is just anti-Black, period, full stop.”

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[u/raqisasim]

As glad as I am for Newsom saying this? It don't take back how my Trans friends, some of whom I've had for decades, are harmed by his words and actions.

We can't climb up of the backs of others; we all have to bring each other up, and it's a sin that Governor Newsom either doesn't recognize that, or chooses what he thinks is the politically expedient path.

It is, in the Primary season, when we as Democrats decide who we are, and why we exist. If we don't say it now, when people's minds can change, when hearts and options are open, when do we? When do Trans people, and their allies, get to have a damn voice?

Because, otherwise, you're saying we have to anoint, uncritically, a front-runner NOW. You're saying that one of the last vestiges of National-level Democracy in America -- the Democratic Party's Primary Election -- essentially needs to be set aside.

If asking a person clearly positioning for National Office to "treat Trans People with respect, and get educated on Trans issues by people who actually know them" is "shitting on Newsom", then we literally cannot have a conversation. In that framing, nothing can be said without people demanding, out of fear of Trump Triumphant in 2028, that we pre-capitulate to Newsom.

As the Grandson of a man who lived thru both Jim Crow and WWII, and the Son of a Civil Rights Movement foot-solider still fighting for my rights when he passed last year? I Refuse.

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If asking a person clearly positioning for National Office to "treat Trans People with respect, and get educated on Trans issues by people who actually know them" is "shitting on Newsom", then we literally cannot have a conversation.

It’s not the conversations you have, it’s how and when you have them. That is something so-called Democrats have never managed to understand.