Progressive House candidate responds to criticism over past comments about Black Dems

[WhiskeyGrinder]

108. I want to be clear that I'm not a fan of the Sunrise Movement. But the quotes that you're posting weren't just him

riffing on a podcast by himself. He was in conversation with Khury Petersen-Smith, a young Black activist who responded with the quote you've posted with this:

That said you’re raising a really sharp question, which is, there’s the role that a small, but very visible section of black America has found its niche within you’ve got like Eric Adams running New York City, which is wild for many reasons. But yeah, what does it mean when that’s the black mayor who is absolutely the vehicle for some of the most horrific expansion of policing and surveillance.

He is a conduit and a voice for a kind of democratic party version of the anti immigrant politics. It’s a disaster. So that’s a reality. And then there’s this, the question of the kind of traditional or legacy organizations of the Civil Rights movement, which and there has been, there’s less of a conversation about it now, but earlier in the Black Lives Matter experience, there was a conversation about tensions between the keep in mind or, let’s remember that Black Lives Matter emerged under Obama actually, right?

It's like, Trayvon Martin was murdered under Obama.

There are young/old and progressive/centrist splits in most movements and factions right now, and when it comes to the movements of people who have been dealing with different oppressions on top of straight Democratic politics, it's even more complicated. The debate about "respectability politics" in Black circles is a big one. That's what this discussion was about.