Is there anyone on this board that understands how the government works...
How do you have a serious agenda for reparations when you don't understand that 1. That a bill for reparations would need to pass Congress and 2. You would either need to make sure the President doesn't veto the bill or else you would need to have enough votes in Congress to override the Veto?
It is not the constituency's job to understand or figure out the logistics of getting shyt done. It is the constituency's job to say what they want and for the politicians to figure it out, that's what politicians get paid to do.
People really let politicians and supporters of politician pimp them out of what is right by trying to focus on how to get shyt done.
Nobody else in the world got this political culture of always trying to do the politicians job for them for nothing.
Why should anybody who is not a lobbyist or an activist or politician care about how things work? When you buy the newest cellphone, do you know how that works? Do you know the science behind touchscreen or the Android Assistant or the OS? No, you just want it to work.
People sat for 8 years listening to Obama's excuses for why he didn't do anything that he said he was gonna do in the Hope campaign and the main argument which wasn't an argument at all:
"You just don't understand how things work, you gotta understand and be patient."
That's not the job of the constituency. Our job as non-politicians is to put pressure on the government, not cape for politicians failure to get things done. Not to sit here and understand every intricate detail of how Congress works. That's not our job.
If you wanna behind over backwards and get fukked by politicians who are multi-millionaires and getting free healthcare and making connections across every industry so their kids can be wealthy and work on daytime TV, then be my guest, but for the rest of us, we gonna say what we want and say continue to say what we want and hand out consequences if we do not get it.