Giving You the Best that Biden's Got . . .

For Black Radicals When Colored Girls on the Presidential Ticket Are Not Enough

I want something that we are not going to get. I want inspiration from the candidates for president & vice president. After a long campaign road last year, and a puzzling and bumbling journey this year, one thing is clear about the Democrat Party and where we stand in national politics.

This is the best that we are going to get.

Is it good? Eh.

Is it radical? Certainly not.

Is it strategic? Debatable. It depends on whose strategy you might be thinking of.

Biden is woefully disappointing. Harris brings no new voters that Biden would not have gotten on his own. Both have painful political histories that have wreaked havoc on black communities.

Still, I see no viable progressive alternatives available to us in the 12 weeks between now and the general election of 2020. Like so many other things coming out of 2020, this blunder of wonder twins is so out of step with where the country is trying to go. It is a reminder of that which we need to let go. It is a reminder that we need better, I want better, and still I am radically honest about what is real. This is the best that we are going to get.

We have to pave a road that leads to life after this election, because while this ain’t it, it is what we have. And I’m using the best tools that I have.

I’m just trying to survive the moment so that we have a fighting chance to make it to the other side. Sometimes, that is the best you can do in the moment before creating the conditions for a better moment.

Keep creating the moments that lead to liberation.