Spin Off: I don't understand why folks question dedication to the Clinton's

[Uponthegears]

21. And this is why I'm here

Like I explained in another post, I left home in Texas after I graduated from high school, and moved to San Francisco to join with the BPP. I had my dad's blessing on that, for a little while. After Oakland, my dad made me come back home and go to college. He wasn't someone to argue with. We had some money for that and my dad was just fed up with the racism in Texas of the late 60's/early 70's, so I ended up overseas for college. I came back, went to law school and spent the next 30+ years doing capital cases and prisoner civil rights litigation.

I wanted to say that I didn't owe anyone that explanation, but in my case, I think I do. I'm not a long-time group member. I can't point to my history at DU. I never do OPs. I don't do real names. I have s*** to lose. I have a pretty hard time when anyone tells me what candidate A or candidate B will do for me when the institutions they want to lead are still waging war on us. Accordingly, I have a pretty short fuse (and as I was taught the other day, sometimes a pretty unfair fuse) when I think that is what is happening.

I support Sanders because of his lean toward socialism, not because I think he speaks for, or even to, people like me. If I didn't, I wouldn't be voting in the primary either. And, no shocker here, like you, where I am, no one would miss one old Black man sitting that one out. Come time for the GE, I would vote for Satan if he had a (D) behind his name.

There, that's me, done . . .