Saroosh! My soulmate!

We’re in Helena quite a bit for our son’s soccer tournaments. Nice town :-) There’s a lovely Mediterranean restaurant near the courthouse that we always make a point to hit whenever we visit.

I couldn’t agree with you more about the community here. People just aren’t that hung up on color. There’s an independent spirit that seems to liberate them from a lot of political ideology and groupthink. Most folks are pretty religious, to be sure, but that’s had no bearing on how I’ve been treated as a black woman. If anything, I would say that any prejudice I’ve encountered has been due to my sexuality (not my race), and that’s happened only a very few times, and only in a subtle way.

You’re spot-on about the original rainbow coalition. I wrote about that in my MLK post in January. Black, white, red, yellow, and brown coming together is truly the greatest threat to this System, and that’s why I believe the Dem Establishment went to such great lengths to make Bernie the “enemy” of black people. If he had managed to bring them into his camp, the class war would have entered a new phase — one in which the elites would be overwhelmingly outnumbered.

Divide and conquer is how they have managed to maintain power as long as they have. Armed with a race-baiting media and black leadership that has completely sold out (I liken them to house slaves on a plantation), the elites have mastered this game.

But as bleak as it seems…I still have hope that we can turn things around. Do you?