Because that makes racists feel better? If Newsom looked at his list of qualified candidates and saw that his top 3 candidate finalists were all Black women, he can pre-announce that the finalist will be a Black woman.
Similarly, the US is very comfortable with less than 1% of all VC funding going to Black women. We all just pretend that racist exclusion isn't happening. But the minute 1 tiny fund says that it's going to give < .01% to Black women? Lawsuits! Claims of unfairness!🤡
And I haven't read Newsom say anywhere that only Black women were eligible. I've read him say that the appointee will be a Black woman.
There's a significant difference between those two statements.
There is no phrasing that will make racists happy. It's a fool's errand to try.
Martin Luther King couldn't find it. "Nonviolent protest" and "civil disobedience" were hated terms in their time.
"Black Lives Matter" is apparently a bad term. "Hands up, don't shoot" is also bad. "Defund the police" is terrible.
When you find a framing that works for racists, let me know. Might win you a Nobel peace prize! Because even the peace prize winners couldn't figure it out.🤷🏿♂️
Newsom never committed to appointing a Black woman *before he had the final list of candidates*.
Joy Reid asked him if he would commit to appointing a Black woman if Feinstein steps down and he said, verbatim:
“I have multiple names in mind. We have multiple names in mind — and the answer is yes.”
So this is:
My top candidates are all Black women.👍🏿
Not:
I am setting being a Black woman as my primary eligibility criteria. I am don't have any candidates in mind yet. 👎🏿
But it didn't make it harder? It's already hard for the appointee. Because racism.
Look at the difference in experience and capabilities between Laphonza Butler and JD Vance. The fact that we're even having this conversation has nothing to do with Newsom announcing that his short list had Black women near the top, and everything to do with racism.
There is no phrasing that makes the racism go away, but it is exhausting for Black folk to have to parse their words trying.
@mekkaokereke @FeralRobots @breiter The only thing that will make racists happy is nominating a white person.
Why is it that whenever a white guy gets the job, nobody says "Oh, he's clearly just getting that job because of his race and gender"?
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I belive the framing they are looking for is "Everything is fine as it is and nothing needs to change."
Anything short of that is going to be unacceptable.
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Most of the right is operating in bad faith 99% of the time. You're correct that they will never be satisfied. This Sartre exerpt about anti-semitism also applies to racism it seems.
@unikitty @mekkaokereke @FeralRobots @breiter 2/2 ..reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.
Jean-Paul Sartre
@unikitty @mekkaokereke @FeralRobots @breiter 80% of my experience with the altright the moment they realize theyve lost the epistemic game.
probably much more.
I do put "Yes to ACAB and BLM" in my dating profile, if it makes people run away, so much the better. I don't want to date them anyway.
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