You see, people who are scared of change are the ones who usually call other people names like commie. No logical defense other than name-calling and scare tactics. Sanders is proposing nothing more than what other countries are currently using and are performing better than America is doing. America needs to catch up. Don't believe me? Go try to take away those benefits from them and let's see how they act.
It's not only about being a part of a movement. But it sure feels nice to know that there are millions of Americans who think just like me. WE are stronger together! WE THE PEOPLE have the power when we work TOGETHER!
What a pleasure to listen to Barbara Smith. When I first saw her endorsement video, I was thrilled!!! I lived in Boston when she was there and she was in large part responsible for my consciousness raising during that time. It shaped my life, as it shaped many women's lives in Boston. It was great to hear someone who loves Bernie , because she really sees who he is. I speak with good people who have never had the life experience of heightened consciousness that Barbara represents, the environment in which I was immersed for decades in Boston, so they know nothing about what Bernie represents. Just last night I was explaining to a man (in Pennsylvania) who has every reason to welcome a Bernie presidency, who has avoided politics because "it divides people" and I did the best I could, but I couldn't tell what he thought. As I walked away, he said, "Religion!! THAT divides people, too." I told him about what Bernie has said about his experience of spirituality and about what he says to people about how we're all in this together and what makes us all more human. I'm going to watch this interview several times. Thank you so much.
This girl, Briahna J Gray, should be the press secretary once (hopefully) Bernie Sanders gets in office. She would absolutely make for the most professional and honest press secretary we've ever had.
Woman, not girl. Press Secretary is a propagandist, a vital role if they speak truth to power (to themselves). Brie would be great, but the real energy needs to be at the base, to organize pressure on Senators to vote to pass Bernie's legislation. Brie would be better at that, no? Bernie should create proper administrative positions for this work, it is a vital necessity to counter corporate lobbyists. If you want the legislation to pass, you must be patient and put maximum voter pressure during the first year before the next mid-terms, then spend all political capital you've got in the second mid-term. Invest now for the (political) profit next year. Then Bernie will then easily get a second term, and the sky's the limit to progressive reform/revolution after that.
Briahna is such a great journalist! Her TV appearances, the podcast, her interviewing skills. She is so eloquent, knows how to use time, has great arguments and the interview was both structured and natural, she found a way to make it a fluid conversation.
Thank you for THIS 🙏 I am forever sharing this video with those who desire a true understanding of the Bernie Sanders I know and love. Gratitudes to Barbara Smith and to Briahna for such poignant, powerful questions and responses ❤
Heyy Bernie, just got my california ballet in the mail, just know i got your back. I got most of my friends to vote for you too!! Trust me i got alot of friends :) IT feels good voting for the first time! your policies will help me find a home and crawl outta poverty. Good luck Americas Dad!
HighVoltage 🙌 I’m still working on my friends, neighbors, and family across the country. Got 1 definitely for Bernie and 2 that at least aren’t going to vote for Trump again. Haven’t tried to flip previous Trump supporters to Bernie, but getting them opposed to another vote for him this time feels like a win 💙🔥💙
This is such a needed, important and educational interview. Thank you Briahna for interviewing Barbara. And thank you Barbara for being such an amazing living ancestor. I just love how the Sanders campaign is pushing to the fore conversations like this about identity politics, the personal histories of civil rights, white people like Bernie standing up for BIPOC, and just plain solidarity of working people. I struggle in the US on many levels, so this campaign is such a hope and a joy.
Mass media does not report on people who challenge the status quo. She was an LGBT outreach organizer on Bernie's 2016 campaign, but since her work would take the moral high ground away from the liberals, she was erased from the narrative.
I think I’ve seen her before, but obviously mainstream media’s priorities and (objectives) has failed the American people and the strive for democracy, in keeping the limelight on those who matter most in the fight.
Racism, misogyny, homophobia, exploitation and division of the working class, all clearly explained from a socialist, humanitarian point of view and all in this brief interview. A hero indeed.
What an amazing interview. I could listen to Barbara Smith all day! Watching you learn from her as I was learning from her was very special. We must never lose these parts of our history or we will be doomed to repeat them. Briahna, thank you!
@@caseyfoster710 Trump is a doddering old fool who has nothing to go up against Senator Sanders with. He's on record saying he's afraid of Bernie. He'd be demolished in a debate with someone like #Bernie2020
@@mypetcrow9873 I don't think Trump is stupid enough to debate Bernie, but it's just my opin. I make mistakes with astounding regularity about just this sort of thing. And I'm personally committed to Bernie. He's going to forgive my substantial medical debt. For me that's a game changer. #aidsruinedmycreditscore
I am so impressed with Briahna! She is smart, articulate, motivated, engaged, and progressive! I understand why Bernie wants her on the team. I too am an old Jewish guy from Brooklyn who grew up in the 50s in a rent-controlled apartment living paycheck to paycheck in a neighborhood with refugees with numbers tattooed on their forearms. And I remember vividly the civil rights movement. To see the diverse team of such exceptional people proves there has been progress, but more, that progress is possible.
Aloha Briana, excellent interview. Ms. Smith deserves mad respect for all she has done, and continues to do. Must have been a bucket list item for you to sit down and talk with this remarkable person. Keep up the great work!
Article 182.2: The penalty for election fraud is two to ten years imprisonment for either increasing the vote share of the favored candidate Or depressing the vote share of the rival candidates.
Can someone with a email address for the campaign send them this information this data is still missing from the iowa vote and would put Sanders in the SDE lead alone. mobile.twitter.com/JennUWinn84/status/1225306453575131136
@@Ellie-jw3mr U.S. House of Representatives His 1990 victory was described by The Washington Post as being the “First Socialist Elected” to the United States House of Representatives in more than 40 years. Served in the House from 1991 until the time he became a Senator in 2007. Over a span of 16 years, he continuously won re-election by large margins, with the only exception being 1994. In his very first year in the House, he co-founded the Congressional Progressive Caucus. He led this group for its first eight years. Its primary devotion is to advance liberal causes and is currently the largest organization within the Democratic congressional caucus. He sided with the minority in voting against the use of force against Iraq in 1991 and 2002. He also opposed the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Voted against the Patriot Act despite the majority of Congress voting for it (357 to 66). He also sponsored several amendments trying to limit its effects, even getting a proposal passed through the House preventing the government from obtaining a record of the books people buy. Was an open critic of Federal Reserve Chair Alan Greenspan and took him head on insisting he only represented “large and wealthy corporations.” Greenspan later admitted to Congress that his economic ideology regarding risky mortgage loans was flawed. He passed more amendments than any other member during his time in the House. It earned him the nickname “The Amendment King.” He did this despite being a “socialist” and Congress being controlled by Republicans from 1994 to 2006, in one of the most partisan right-wing Houses ever. Passed an amendment to “require offenders who are convicted of fraud and other white collar crime to give appropriate notice to victims and other persons in cases where there are multiple victims eligible to receive restitution.” Passed an amendment that improved Postsecondary Education. It administered a competitive grant program to institutions of higher education seeking to reduce costs through the purchase of goods and services. This saved colleges and taxpayers both money. He amended the Treasury and General Government Appropriations Act of 2003, stopping the IRS from being able to use funds that “violate current pension age discrimination laws.” He expanded free health care and won a $100 million increase in funding by using his amendment powers. This added community health centers that gave out a variety of free health care services. Prevented child labor by passing an amendment to a general appropriations bill. This stated that the U.S. will not appropriate funds for the importation of goods made by the hands of minors. Won a $22 million increase for low-income home energy assistance and a related weatherization assistance program. This helped heat homes for the poor. Passed an amendment that formed a bipartisan coalition effectively prohibiting the Export-Import Bank from handing out loans for nuclear projects in China. U.S. Senate Defeated a wealthy businessman, Rich Tarrant, to win his U.S. Senate seat in 2006, in one of the most expensive campaigns in Vermont’s history. Received the distinction of being named the third-most popular senator in the country, according to Public Policy Polling in August 2011. Given a score of 100 percent by the NAACP and NHLA (National Hispanic Leadership Agenda) based on his record during his time in the Senate. Named one of the top 5 American Jews of the Forward 50 in 2015. Chairman of the United States Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs in 2013-2014. Became ranking minority member of the Senate Budget Committee in January 2015. Became ranking minority member of the Subcommittee on Primary Health and Aging. Passed an amendment making sure that solar water heaters provide at least 30 percent of hot water for new federal buildings. This is forcing us to use green energy. Made sure to it that bailout funds weren’t used to replace laid-off U.S. workers with exploited and poorly-paid foreign workers. Helped ensure that child care was being offered to parents in the Armed Forces by requiring the Comptroller General to provide accurate reporting on what was being done. Required a public database be made available showing the names of senior Department officials seeking employment with defense contractors. This helped crack down on corruption. Required that the TRICARE program provide treatment to veterans affected by certain types of autism. It wasn’t previously being done. Won a battle requiring the Government Accountability Office to conduct an audit of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (the part that doesn’t interfere with monetary policy). This revealed the names of the recipients of over 2,000,000,000,000 in taxpayer assistance. Was praised by John McCain(R-AZ) and Sen. Jack Reed(D-RI) for overhauling the Veterans Administration. Was said to have done such an excellent job of bringing all parties to a deal, that it wouldn’t have gotten done without Sanders’ work. But, most of all, what Bernie has done is inspire Americans. That’s what he’s doing in this election. His list of accomplishments doesn’t include all the times he’s stood on the Senate floor giving a passionate speech on why the “big banks need to be broken up.” No, you can’t quite quantify things like that.
Veterans Landmark legislation was passed in 2014 to help the Department of Veterans Affairs serve America’s aging population of veterans and to meet the needs of a new generation of men and women who served in Iraq and Afghanistan. As the Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee chairman, Sanders steered the bill through Congress. The legislation (H.R. 3230) passed the Senate 93-3 after passing the House 265-160 and was signed by President Obama on Aug. 7, 2014. The law included $5 billion for the VA to hire more doctors and other health care professionals. Sanders commitment to veterans has a long history. In 1998, he worked with Rep. Chris Shays to pass a bill to care for illnesses afflicting Gulf War veterans. The War in Iraq Sanders voted against the Bush-Cheney war in Iraq. The House on Oct. 11, 2002, voted 293-133 for the resolution (H.J. Res. 1149) authorizing military force. The war, which dragged on for nine years, was one of the worst foreign policy fiascoes in modern American history and fomented the Islamic State terrorist group that plagues the Middle East today. The War in Afghanistan Sanders was in the 420-1 House majority on Sept. 14, 2001, in voting for a resolution (H.J. RES 64) authorizing the use of force against the country which harbored those responsible for the 9/11 terrorist attacks. As the longest war in U.S. history dragged on, Sanders supported the withdrawal of U.S. troops, which finally ended combat operations in the country in 2014. The First Gulf War Sanders voted against the resolution (H.J. RES 77) authorizing U.S. military action in the Persian Gulf War when it passed the House by a vote of 250-183 on Jan. 12, 1991. The USA Patriot Act The post-9/11 law gave the National Security Agency broad new surveillance powers that the NSA abused to sweep up millions of email and telephone records without search warrants. “All of us want to protect the American people from terrorist attacks but in a way that does not undermine basic freedoms,” Sanders, a "no" vote, said on Oct. 24, 2001, when the surveillance law (H.R. 3162) first passed the House 357-66. He voted against renewing the law (S. 2271) on March 7, 2006, when reauthorization passed 280-138. In the Senate, he voted against extending the PATRIOT Act (S. 990) on May 26, 2011, when the extension passed 72-23. Wall Street Deregulation Less than a decade before the 2008 Wall Street financial crisis that caused the Great Recession, Sanders voted against a bill (S. 900) that undid decades of financial regulations enacted after the Great Depression. Over Sanders’ opposition, the House passed the deregulation bill 362-57 on Nov. 4, 1999. “This legislation,” he had predicted, “will lead to fewer banks and financial service providers, increased charges and fees for individual consumers and small businesses, diminished credit for rural America and taxpayer exposure to potential losses should a financial conglomerate fail. It will lead to more mega-mergers, a small number of corporations dominating the financial service industry and further concentration of power in our country.” Big Banks Sanders in 2013 proposed legislation to break up “too-big-to-fail” banks, which today have more assets and control more of the economy than before taxpayer bailed them out in 2008. Wall Street bankers have blocked the bill. The bankers lost a battle in 2009, however, when Sanders in 2009 reached across the aisle to work with Senator Charles Grassley to amend (S.A. 306) a bill to prevent banks that took taxpayer bailouts from replacing laid-off U.S. workers with lower-paid foreign workers. Read the bill to break up big banks Read the Sanders-Grassley amendment Free Credit Reports The House on November 2, 2003, passed legislation (H.R.2622) authored by Sanders (original bill) to provide all Americans with one free credit report per year. The bill became law (Public Law No: 108-159) on Dec. 4, 2003. Read the law Taxes Tax breaks for the wealthy and profitable corporations were passed by Congress, over Sanders’ opposition, during the administration of President George W. Bush. The loss of revenue was a major reason that Bush amassed big deficits after inheriting a big budget surplus. Sanders voted against the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act when the House passed it (H.R. 1836) by a vote of 230-197 in 2001. He voted no when the House passed the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003 (H.R. 2) by a vote of 222-203. When the tax breaks were set to expire in 2010, Sanders delivered an 8 ½ hour Senate floor speech against extending the tax cuts for the rich. The Senate, however, voted 81-19 (H.R. 4853) to keep the tax breaks in place. Finally, two years later, Sanders prevailed. On New Year’s Day, Jan. 1, 2013, he voted with the 90-8 Senate majority on (H.R. 8) to end the Bush tax breaks for the wealthiest 1 percent of American wage earners. Sanders has proposed a progressive tax package to close corporate loopholes and to help balance the budget by making the wealthy pay their fair share. Watch the filibuster Read the Sanders tax proposals The Fed A first-ever audit of the Federal Reserve revealed eye-popping details of how $16 trillion in near zero-interest loans went to banks and businesses in the U.S. and abroad in the aftermath of the 2008 financial collapse. The audit (GAO-11-696) was required by a Sanders amendment to the 2010 Wall Street reform bill. Read the law Read the audit Trade Policy As a result of a series of disastrous trade deals, nearly 60,000 American factories have been shuttered since 2001 and millions of good-paying jobs have shifted to low-wage nations overseas. The House voted 234-200 on Nov. 17, 1993, for the North American Free Trade Agreement (H.R. 3450). Sanders voted no. He later voted against the Central American Free Trade Agreement (H.R. 3045) when it was passed by the House on July 8, 2005, by a vote of 217-215. He also voted against establishing permanent normal trade relations with China when that resolution (H.R. 4444) was passed the House by a vote of 237-197 on May 24, 2000. He is now leading the fight against a 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement.
“While the app was recording data accurately, it was reporting out only partial data. We have determined that this was due to a coding issue in the reporting system." - said the Democratic Party in a statement. (Oh come on! Obvious rigging)
Lets get real here! They DESIGNED that App, to STEAL VOTES! Primarily, Bernie's and Tulsi's votes! They had so many that the APP Busted itself, in trying to STEAL to ALLOCATE their votes!!!!
There were numbers on the cards they gave us to write whom we were voting for . So a person had an extra card and well they just left it on the table thinking nothing of it so . That is one problem that happened . One other thing that we had we had was the older guy that was the leader of the whole thing didn`t do it as he was suppose to . Meaning order so it is sometimes hard to change old guys just saying
@@Ricky911_ But you're both Brits! Hey, that's great! I don't feel like this is my country anymore, so citizens of the world! If you're for Bernie like me, then I'm sorry if you were for Jeremy and now worry about Maggie 2.0!
you have all my love & support From Israel, even here we have universal health care, thank to the social democrates that preceded the shamefull right wing netaniaou gov
Bless you for this endorsement and interview and these ideas. Incredible to have an original member of the Combahee River Collective given length to speak in a presidential campaign.
[This is not a criticism of this nice lady personally but a general note]. Identity politics is fostered by the ruling class to divide political opposition, divide the working class and keep us focussed on the culture war and never resisting them in the economic war they focus on. This is a favourite idea the wealthy elites, comfortable with the economic norms uses to co-opt opposition to the establishment so class consciousness never arises.
You forgot to add, they do this to keep us distracted while they take advantage of the profit stream through the war, medical, education, and prison system.
@@KadaspalaThe ones who foster are the ones who benefit the most. They lobby politicians to make the laws easier for this corrupt system to flourish. I believe this began as a race issue but today it's transitioned into the have and have-nots. Race still plays a small part in it but sell-outs exist in all systems anyway.
Sure. If you're using the term in the way the media is using it and if you ignore everything that she's said here, then yeah. Stubbornly only running with politicians who look or otherwise are like you is a huge issue, and it keeps us divided and unable to band together and get things done. But if you actually listen to what she's saying, this is not at all what she means when she uses the term. Listen.
@@Jeevanm71 i was born with a penis, and never removed it. i also am sexually attracted only to women. and i'm a brown person who doesnt buy into the sjw bullshit, they consider me worse than a traitor....like the kkk would do with one of the MANY milllions of non-racist white folks....
It's important to talk about identity politics in a general sense, but it becomes problematic when used as an attack against individuals. We've seen this used against Bernie with the sexist Bernie Bros narrative. Division and tribalism is our enemy, unity is our only hope.
@Wolfkiller Unity can not come at the price of appeasement. Too many times throughout history the exploited have been encouraged to put aside their particular concerns for the sake of unity. It is the time for whites to acknowledge the generational harm done onto brown and black people to their generational benefit. An apology would be a start to reconciliation.
Great episode as always! Barbara Smith is right on with everything she said. Briahna always does a fantastic job! So glad they are both with Bernie 2020 :)
Very inspiring interview. I was hoping she would talk about how identity politics are cynically deployed, but it’s also good she keeps it positive. I was surprised she didn’t touch upon Bernie’s work in the LGBTQ movement, bc he was ahead of his in this respect too, but she does mention being chair of the LGBTQIA committee in Sanders’s 2016 campaign. Barbara Smith makes me want to earn even more her endorsement.
Before we get into this episode, my guess or for additional info on ID politics vs. what’s really at issue: What’s the Matter with Kansas by Thomas Frank. Explains how the red state Midwest used to be radically for the people, calling this day’s “billionaire” class “Robber Barons” back then. Then used Public Relations (mindf*ck) to polarize the people against the coastal cities “degenerate culture”. I hear he’s got a good new book, som’n about small d’eifying the democratic party. Great Thanks to Barbara & Joy here for standing up for US
I know this is going to be an unpopular opinion but I think it needs to be said. My issue with Identity Politics is that it is being used to justify the type of behavior that it complains about. In my opinion, if something is fair, it is fair for everyone. Making special rules for special groups of people is, generally speaking, just as bad as the original special rules that existed. I think it is perfectly fine to identify Identity Discrimination but the solution is to have politics that lifts all people and removes the original special rules that people previously abused.
Identity politics is simply acknowledging the fact that different groups of people have different relations to oppression. If I need to cross an ocean but you need to cross a mountain should we both try and do it the same way? Would it be a special rule for you to use a plane or for me to use a boat? Oppression and struggle are not a competition, there are no rules to to ending it.
This is what people mean when we say that there is a good identity politics and a bad one. It is a sad thing the way a term for inclusiveness has been used for people who want to try to divide people on narrow grounds.
I'm proud to say that my white grandfather openly supported the Civil Rights Movement and was fired from his job as a minister in Little Rock, AR because of it. Bernie2020
Technically speaking, id/entity politics is right wing linguistic eugenics that appeals to the id/ego... We may continue if you like... Signed, a survivor of MKU
I wonder if it would be possible for you to speak to Angela Davis? Because that would be one amazing interview! Not sure if she’s willing to, but it would be awesome if that happened.
I remember in the 90s there was a buzz in the gay rights community that OUR rights would be easier to achieve if we clipped those odd trans people off the end and just pushed for LGB rights. To those people I always proudly said, F-You. There is no equality until we are all equal.
Interesting that one of the originators of intersectionality fully understands where Sanders is coming from, but tonnes of contemporary activists dismiss him, or worse, outright despise him, for being "a class reductionist". Very interesting indeed.
All of the addendums about identity politics do NOT help this video. Yes, a nuanced & thorough discussion of systemic discrimination & understanding how identity can effect circumstance CAN be enlightening, but the stone cold FACT of the matter is successive advocates for intersectionality have made mockery of the core concepts. Any leftist interested in solidarity should first and foremost clarify what that solidarity means. Corporate Democrats believe it means that leftists need to fall in line and allow them to dictate public policy and even rig primaries. The woke "identity politics" crowd often seem to believe it means anyone outside of specific protected classes should STFU and kiss the ring. In reality, it is about UNDERSTANDING what might divide us (experience, culture, temperament) and placing emphasis instead on what UNITES us (universal human rights, economic justice and a wish for social welfare, in its basic meaning. Even DEEP conservatives often believe in these very things, they just ALSO believe in a very different perspective of what they might mean and how to achieve them) Identity politics has been used as a weapon for at LEAST 50 years, slowly becoming more and more cynical and less and less *meaningful* or based in reality. It's time to either ditch it or start cleaning house. To those celebrating "heightened consciousness" or such things, please leave the echochamber. Speaking like this loses elections. I for one hope the unhelpful communication doesn't turn people off to the powerful and righteous message, but unfortunately, it often does. Folks are fed up of bourgie liberals lecturing them about their privilege while they're experiencing poverty (because while "privilege" might aptly describe certain aspects, it is RARELY discussed with academic rigour and typically a thin veil for racism and contempt for the working class, especially if they're white. Sad but true) My warnings on this get me labelled a "bernie bro" but if the REPEATED ass kickings the neoliberals "on the left" have taken cynically pushing "intersectionality" as an ALTERNATIVE to economic justice isn't evidence enough, we are TRULY fucked.
I think its a distraction from eccconomic oppression. Too many people think they get more oppression points for being a social minority when in reality we are in the same boat here. Rich vs poor.
She just spent 15 minutes talking about slave history 200 years ago. Can we talk about mortgages, university, calculus, finance, business, rocket engine engineering, Japanese language, Mandarin in the business communities, making a car factory more efficient, cutting costs in a fudge factory, ....anything, everything that is in front of us.
everyone talk to your parents and grandparents!let them know it yours and your children's future on the line this time and ask them if they will vote for you and the planet . bernie is the only one who wants to do enough. money is great but as a chief said planet . people. profit. in that order. one can never be without the previous . i hope greed is not the death of it all. lets see how much they love us and give it a try.
Briahna is awesome, but folks, please do not push her to become Press Secretary. Press Secretary is a propagandist, a vital role if they speak truth to power (to themselves). Bri would be great, but the real energy needs to be at the base, to organize pressure on Senators to vote to pass Bernie's legislation. Bri would be better at that, no? Bernie should create proper administrative positions for this work, it is a vital necessity to counter corporate lobbyists. If you want the legislation to pass, you must be patient and put maximum voter pressure during the first year before the next mid-terms, then spend all political capital you've got in the second mid-term. Invest now for the (political) profit next year. Then Bernie will then easily get a second term, and the sky's the limit to progressive reform/revolution after that. Be relentlessly strategic. The planet depends upon us.
I respectfully disagree about identity politics. Instead of rising to a more enlightened way of thinking about all people, we need to stop this ignorant dividing and conquering based on, in the grand scheme of things, petty differences like ethnicity, gender, sexuality, politics, et al. While those elements to one’s identity is entirely unique, fulfilling, and empowering to you, it may not be the same for others you may disagree with. And that’s fine. What isn’t is espousing ignorance and supremacy of ideology. And while I disagree with Barbara Smith on this issue, I respect her as a person and will read Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around to get more of her viewpoints. Nobody should be bullied into believing what’s correct or moral and I believe Barbara Smith would respect my viewpoint. I really believe Bernie’s coalition of all people will not only win the nomination but will become the 46th President.
I think you may have missed the original distinction. We all face the same forces but they affect different groups differently. When you attack these problems you need to be cognizant of these differences so you know you are address it for all people. Now it is used to refer to the cynical politicians who use it to pander and for political gain. Let's not let them distract us from the original valid point being made. I do care about race and gender and sexual orientation etc. I want policies to be crafted in ways that leave no one behind.
I agreed with you until I read Bernie's book where he filibustered One of the Wall Street bailouts on December 10th 2010. One of the people that joined his filibuster was a Senator from Louisiana. Ironically it was her statements that caused the light to come on. In that same filibuster, Senator Sanders could not understand why policies that continue to take money from the middle class and cause them to decline, while making millionaires and billionaires a storehouse of money, continues to be promoted by the Republican party. Then it hit me. Republicans are using and weaponizing the supply side economics argument, not because they believe that supply side economics works. They have been seeking to to cause deficit spending so that they can "Starve the beast" , which means cutting social programs like social security and Medicare.
A lot of people here would, no doubt, claim that traditional Christianity is homophobic. Well, OK, I'll just be a proud homophobe. And...vote for Bernie while not agreeing with everything he stands for. If you want to apply purity tests, then you'll get a roomful of voters. Anyway, I voted for Trump while not agreeing with his insane tearing up of the Iran deal, or with his climate change denial.
She’s talking about a fundamental Marxist concept - dialectal materialism. Everything is connected to every else. It doesn’t matter what we do, everything that’s related to revolution has to come to terms, in some way, with Marxist theory, just updated and related to concrete historical conditions.
But it’s really difficult for American politicians or activists to mention the “M” word. So they talk around it, explain it, without using the name. Because as soon as “Marx” comes out of their mouths, people will call them dirty commies and switch off. Which is very sad, because Marx contributed a lot.
SENATOR, WE NEED YOU, THE COUNTRY NEEDS YOU, THE WORLD NEEDS YOU!!!!!!! STAY STRONG!!!!! ALL OUR LOVE AND SUPPORT!!!!!!
You see, people who are scared of change are the ones who usually call other people names like commie. No logical defense other than name-calling and scare tactics. Sanders is proposing nothing more than what other countries are currently using and are performing better than America is doing. America needs to catch up. Don't believe me? Go try to take away those benefits from them and let's see how they act.
Sanders has zero chance~~~The world knows he isnt even a Snack for TRUMP!
He will be EATEN ALIVE!
@Mr. Casey Foster Billionaires don't need more sniveling tea baggers or do they? Weak, greedy. perverse parasites are disgusting and vile.
MR. CASEY FOSTER That’s factually inaccurate. Bernie demolishes Drumpf in all polls, but your amnesia is welcome.
💒His pride cometh before his fall.
It's not only about being a part of a movement. But it sure feels nice to know that there are millions of Americans who think just like me. WE are stronger together! WE THE PEOPLE have the power when we work TOGETHER!
What a pleasure to listen to Barbara Smith. When I first saw her endorsement video, I was thrilled!!! I lived in Boston when she was there and she was in large part responsible for my consciousness raising during that time. It shaped my life, as it shaped many women's lives in Boston. It was great to hear someone who loves Bernie , because she really sees who he is. I speak with good people who have never had the life experience of heightened consciousness that Barbara represents, the environment in which I was immersed for decades in Boston, so they know nothing about what Bernie represents. Just last night I was explaining to a man (in Pennsylvania) who has every reason to welcome a Bernie presidency, who has avoided politics because "it divides people" and I did the best I could, but I couldn't tell what he thought. As I walked away, he said, "Religion!! THAT divides people, too." I told him about what Bernie has said about his experience of spirituality and about what he says to people about how we're all in this together and what makes us all more human. I'm going to watch this interview several times. Thank you so much.
Hello 👋
This girl, Briahna J Gray, should be the press secretary once (hopefully) Bernie Sanders gets in office. She would absolutely make for the most professional and honest press secretary we've ever had.
seconded...All in favor say "aye".
Or maybe Secretary of State.
He's got a monopoly on awesome, honest men and women supporting him!
Feel the Bern!
I like Brie a lot but David Sirota has gotta be the press secretary. He'll set the mainstream media straight
Woman, not girl. Press Secretary is a propagandist, a vital role if they speak truth to power (to themselves). Brie would be great, but the real energy needs to be at the base, to organize pressure on Senators to vote to pass Bernie's legislation. Brie would be better at that, no? Bernie should create proper administrative positions for this work, it is a vital necessity to counter corporate lobbyists. If you want the legislation to pass, you must be patient and put maximum voter pressure during the first year before the next mid-terms, then spend all political capital you've got in the second mid-term. Invest now for the (political) profit next year. Then Bernie will then easily get a second term, and the sky's the limit to progressive reform/revolution after that.
Briahna is such a great journalist! Her TV appearances, the podcast, her interviewing skills. She is so eloquent, knows how to use time, has great arguments and the interview was both structured and natural, she found a way to make it a fluid conversation.
Thank you for THIS 🙏 I am forever sharing this video with those who desire a true understanding of the Bernie Sanders I know and love. Gratitudes to Barbara Smith and to Briahna for such poignant, powerful questions and responses ❤
Heyy Bernie, just got my california ballet in the mail, just know i got your back. I got most of my friends to vote for you too!! Trust me i got alot of friends :) IT feels good voting for the first time! your policies will help me find a home and crawl outta poverty. Good luck Americas Dad!
HighVoltage 🙌 I’m still working on my friends, neighbors, and family across the country. Got 1 definitely for Bernie and 2 that at least aren’t going to vote for Trump again. Haven’t tried to flip previous Trump supporters to Bernie, but getting them opposed to another vote for him this time feels like a win 💙🔥💙
This is such a needed, important and educational interview. Thank you Briahna for interviewing Barbara. And thank you Barbara for being such an amazing living ancestor. I just love how the Sanders campaign is pushing to the fore conversations like this about identity politics, the personal histories of civil rights, white people like Bernie standing up for BIPOC, and just plain solidarity of working people. I struggle in the US on many levels, so this campaign is such a hope and a joy.
Barbara Smith is a hero.
How am I only just finding out about her now?
Mass media does not report on people who challenge the status quo. She was an LGBT outreach organizer on Bernie's 2016 campaign, but since her work would take the moral high ground away from the liberals, she was erased from the narrative.
I think I’ve seen her before, but obviously mainstream media’s priorities and (objectives) has failed the American people and the strive for democracy, in keeping the limelight on those who matter most in the fight.
Racism, misogyny, homophobia, exploitation and division of the working class, all clearly explained from a socialist, humanitarian point of view and all in this brief interview. A hero indeed.
I"m obsessed with Ms. Smith's apartment!!
What an amazing interview. I could listen to Barbara Smith all day! Watching you learn from her as I was learning from her was very special. We must never lose these parts of our history or we will be doomed to repeat them. Briahna, thank you!
Bernie Sanders is going to mop up the floor with Trump's combover durning the debates. Thank you for your support.
There is no way you really think that.
@@caseyfoster710 Trump is a doddering old fool who has nothing to go up against Senator Sanders with. He's on record saying he's afraid of Bernie. He'd be demolished in a debate with someone like #Bernie2020
Bernie will eat his lunch.
What makes you think The Thing will even agree to debate Bernie?
@@mypetcrow9873 I don't think Trump is stupid enough to debate Bernie, but it's just my opin. I make mistakes with astounding regularity about just this sort of thing. And I'm personally committed to Bernie. He's going to forgive my substantial medical debt. For me that's a game changer. #aidsruinedmycreditscore
I am so impressed with Briahna! She is smart, articulate, motivated, engaged, and progressive! I understand why Bernie wants her on the team. I too am an old Jewish guy from Brooklyn who grew up in the 50s in a rent-controlled apartment living paycheck to paycheck in a neighborhood with refugees with numbers tattooed on their forearms. And I remember vividly the civil rights movement. To see the diverse team of such exceptional people proves there has been progress, but more, that progress is possible.
The working peoples last chance, the planets last chance.
Yes he did, he's always been fighting for equality his whole life. See:
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernie_Sanders
@Thank you for helping the channels algorithm billionaire boot licker.😀
Bernie, Bernie, Bernie, !!2020!!
Briahna Gray, we love u , you are beautiful. feel our full support in all this struggle. Thank you for all your work.
I love her, but I prefer her hair long like it used to be.
Feel the Bern!
Briahna is an angel, her voice is so reassuring and exudes positivity.
Aloha Briana, excellent interview. Ms. Smith deserves mad respect for all she has done, and continues to do. Must have been a bucket list item for you to sit down and talk with this remarkable person. Keep up the great work!
Article 182.2: The penalty for election fraud is two to ten years imprisonment for either increasing the vote share of the favored candidate Or depressing the vote share of the rival candidates.
Can someone with a email address for the campaign send them this information this data is still missing from the iowa vote and would put Sanders in the SDE lead alone.
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Well its not an election, its an internal vote, so legally its like in any organizations internal vote for chairs.
Lock them up!
@@Ellie-jw3mr U.S. House of Representatives
His 1990 victory was described by The Washington Post as being the “First Socialist Elected” to the United States House of Representatives in more than 40 years.
Served in the House from 1991 until the time he became a Senator in 2007. Over a span of 16 years, he continuously won re-election by large margins, with the only exception being 1994.
In his very first year in the House, he co-founded the Congressional Progressive Caucus. He led this group for its first eight years. Its primary devotion is to advance liberal causes and is currently the largest organization within the Democratic congressional caucus.
He sided with the minority in voting against the use of force against Iraq in 1991 and 2002. He also opposed the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
Voted against the Patriot Act despite the majority of Congress voting for it (357 to 66). He also sponsored several amendments trying to limit its effects, even getting a proposal passed through the House preventing the government from obtaining a record of the books people buy.
Was an open critic of Federal Reserve Chair Alan Greenspan and took him head on insisting he only represented “large and wealthy corporations.” Greenspan later admitted to Congress that his economic ideology regarding risky mortgage loans was flawed.
He passed more amendments than any other member during his time in the House. It earned him the nickname “The Amendment King.” He did this despite being a “socialist” and Congress being controlled by Republicans from 1994 to 2006, in one of the most partisan right-wing Houses ever.
Passed an amendment to “require offenders who are convicted of fraud and other white collar crime to give appropriate notice to victims and other persons in cases where there are multiple victims eligible to receive restitution.”
Passed an amendment that improved Postsecondary Education. It administered a competitive grant program to institutions of higher education seeking to reduce costs through the purchase of goods and services. This saved colleges and taxpayers both money.
He amended the Treasury and General Government Appropriations Act of 2003, stopping the IRS from being able to use funds that “violate current pension age discrimination laws.”
He expanded free health care and won a $100 million increase in funding by using his amendment powers. This added community health centers that gave out a variety of free health care services.
Prevented child labor by passing an amendment to a general appropriations bill. This stated that the U.S. will not appropriate funds for the importation of goods made by the hands of minors.
Won a $22 million increase for low-income home energy assistance and a related weatherization assistance program. This helped heat homes for the poor.
Passed an amendment that formed a bipartisan coalition effectively prohibiting the Export-Import Bank from handing out loans for nuclear projects in China.
U.S. Senate
Defeated a wealthy businessman, Rich Tarrant, to win his U.S. Senate seat in 2006, in one of the most expensive campaigns in Vermont’s history.
Received the distinction of being named the third-most popular senator in the country, according to Public Policy Polling in August 2011.
Given a score of 100 percent by the NAACP and NHLA (National Hispanic Leadership Agenda) based on his record during his time in the Senate.
Named one of the top 5 American Jews of the Forward 50 in 2015.
Chairman of the United States Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs in 2013-2014.
Became ranking minority member of the Senate Budget Committee in January 2015.
Became ranking minority member of the Subcommittee on Primary Health and Aging.
Passed an amendment making sure that solar water heaters provide at least 30 percent of hot water for new federal buildings. This is forcing us to use green energy.
Made sure to it that bailout funds weren’t used to replace laid-off U.S. workers with exploited and poorly-paid foreign workers.
Helped ensure that child care was being offered to parents in the Armed Forces by requiring the Comptroller General to provide accurate reporting on what was being done.
Required a public database be made available showing the names of senior Department officials seeking employment with defense contractors. This helped crack down on corruption.
Required that the TRICARE program provide treatment to veterans affected by certain types of autism. It wasn’t previously being done.
Won a battle requiring the Government Accountability Office to conduct an audit of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (the part that doesn’t interfere with monetary policy). This revealed the names of the recipients of over 2,000,000,000,000 in taxpayer assistance.
Was praised by John McCain(R-AZ) and Sen. Jack Reed(D-RI) for overhauling the Veterans Administration. Was said to have done such an excellent job of bringing all parties to a deal, that it wouldn’t have gotten done without Sanders’ work.
But, most of all, what Bernie has done is inspire Americans. That’s what he’s doing in this election. His list of accomplishments doesn’t include all the times he’s stood on the Senate floor giving a passionate speech on why the “big banks need to be broken up.” No, you can’t quite quantify things like that.
Veterans
Landmark legislation was passed in 2014 to help the Department of Veterans Affairs serve America’s aging population of veterans and to meet the needs of a new generation of men and women who served in Iraq and Afghanistan. As the Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee chairman, Sanders steered the bill through Congress. The legislation (H.R. 3230) passed the Senate 93-3 after passing the House 265-160 and was signed by President Obama on Aug. 7, 2014. The law included $5 billion for the VA to hire more doctors and other health care professionals. Sanders commitment to veterans has a long history. In 1998, he worked with Rep. Chris Shays to pass a bill to care for illnesses afflicting Gulf War veterans.
The War in Iraq
Sanders voted against the Bush-Cheney war in Iraq. The House on Oct. 11, 2002, voted 293-133 for the resolution (H.J. Res. 1149) authorizing military force. The war, which dragged on for nine years, was one of the worst foreign policy fiascoes in modern American history and fomented the Islamic State terrorist group that plagues the Middle East today.
The War in Afghanistan
Sanders was in the 420-1 House majority on Sept. 14, 2001, in voting for a resolution (H.J. RES 64) authorizing the use of force against the country which harbored those responsible for the 9/11 terrorist attacks. As the longest war in U.S. history dragged on, Sanders supported the withdrawal of U.S. troops, which finally ended combat operations in the country in 2014.
The First Gulf War
Sanders voted against the resolution (H.J. RES 77) authorizing U.S. military action in the Persian Gulf War when it passed the House by a vote of 250-183 on Jan. 12, 1991.
The USA Patriot Act
The post-9/11 law gave the National Security Agency broad new surveillance powers that the NSA abused to sweep up millions of email and telephone records without search warrants. “All of us want to protect the American people from terrorist attacks but in a way that does not undermine basic freedoms,” Sanders, a "no" vote, said on Oct. 24, 2001, when the surveillance law (H.R. 3162) first passed the House 357-66. He voted against renewing the law (S. 2271) on March 7, 2006, when reauthorization passed 280-138. In the Senate, he voted against extending the PATRIOT Act (S. 990) on May 26, 2011, when the extension passed 72-23.
Wall Street Deregulation
Less than a decade before the 2008 Wall Street financial crisis that caused the Great Recession, Sanders voted against a bill (S. 900) that undid decades of financial regulations enacted after the Great Depression. Over Sanders’ opposition, the House passed the deregulation bill 362-57 on Nov. 4, 1999. “This legislation,” he had predicted, “will lead to fewer banks and financial service providers, increased charges and fees for individual consumers and small businesses, diminished credit for rural America and taxpayer exposure to potential losses should a financial conglomerate fail. It will lead to more mega-mergers, a small number of corporations dominating the financial service industry and further concentration of power in our country.”
Big Banks
Sanders in 2013 proposed legislation to break up “too-big-to-fail” banks, which today have more assets and control more of the economy than before taxpayer bailed them out in 2008. Wall Street bankers have blocked the bill. The bankers lost a battle in 2009, however, when Sanders in 2009 reached across the aisle to work with Senator Charles Grassley to amend (S.A. 306) a bill to prevent banks that took taxpayer bailouts from replacing laid-off U.S. workers with lower-paid foreign workers.
Read the bill to break up big banks
Read the Sanders-Grassley amendment
Free Credit Reports
The House on November 2, 2003, passed legislation (H.R.2622) authored by Sanders (original bill) to provide all Americans with one free credit report per year. The bill became law (Public Law No: 108-159) on Dec. 4, 2003.
Read the law
Taxes
Tax breaks for the wealthy and profitable corporations were passed by Congress, over Sanders’ opposition, during the administration of President George W. Bush. The loss of revenue was a major reason that Bush amassed big deficits after inheriting a big budget surplus. Sanders voted against the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act when the House passed it (H.R. 1836) by a vote of 230-197 in 2001. He voted no when the House passed the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003 (H.R. 2) by a vote of 222-203. When the tax breaks were set to expire in 2010, Sanders delivered an 8 ½ hour Senate floor speech against extending the tax cuts for the rich. The Senate, however, voted 81-19 (H.R. 4853) to keep the tax breaks in place. Finally, two years later, Sanders prevailed. On New Year’s Day, Jan. 1, 2013, he voted with the 90-8 Senate majority on (H.R. 8) to end the Bush tax breaks for the wealthiest 1 percent of American wage earners. Sanders has proposed a progressive tax package to close corporate loopholes and to help balance the budget by making the wealthy pay their fair share.
Watch the filibuster
Read the Sanders tax proposals
The Fed
A first-ever audit of the Federal Reserve revealed eye-popping details of how $16 trillion in near zero-interest loans went to banks and businesses in the U.S. and abroad in the aftermath of the 2008 financial collapse. The audit (GAO-11-696) was required by a Sanders amendment to the 2010 Wall Street reform bill.
Read the law
Read the audit
Trade Policy
As a result of a series of disastrous trade deals, nearly 60,000 American factories have been shuttered since 2001 and millions of good-paying jobs have shifted to low-wage nations overseas. The House voted 234-200 on Nov. 17, 1993, for the North American Free Trade Agreement (H.R. 3450). Sanders voted no. He later voted against the Central American Free Trade Agreement (H.R. 3045) when it was passed by the House on July 8, 2005, by a vote of 217-215. He also voted against establishing permanent normal trade relations with China when that resolution (H.R. 4444) was passed the House by a vote of 237-197 on May 24, 2000. He is now leading the fight against a 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement.
“While the app was recording data accurately, it was reporting out only partial data. We have determined that this was due to a coding issue in the reporting system."
- said the Democratic Party in a statement.
(Oh come on! Obvious rigging)
I think the code should be made public and examined. It might explain how errors never seem to benefit Bernie.
Lets get real here! They DESIGNED that App, to STEAL VOTES! Primarily, Bernie's and Tulsi's votes! They had so many that the APP Busted itself, in trying to STEAL to ALLOCATE their votes!!!!
There were numbers on the cards they gave us to write whom we were voting for . So a person had an extra card and well they just left it on the table thinking nothing of it so . That is one problem that happened . One other thing that we had we had was the older guy that was the leader of the whole thing didn`t do it as he was suppose to . Meaning order so it is sometimes hard to change old guys just saying
Thank you so much #BarbaraSmith
Look at the amazing people Bernie attracts.
#Bernie2020- from the UK
#Bernie2020. I'm from London but currently in Rome sooo from the UK I guess?
@@Ricky911_ But you're both Brits! Hey, that's great! I don't feel like this is my country anymore, so citizens of the world! If you're for Bernie like me, then I'm sorry if you were for Jeremy and now worry about Maggie 2.0!
you have all my love & support From Israel, even here we have universal health care, thank to the social democrates that preceded the shamefull right wing netaniaou gov
Great interview. So thought provoking. Thank you Barbara Smith!
Bless you for this endorsement and interview and these ideas. Incredible to have an original member of the Combahee River Collective given length to speak in a presidential campaign.
[This is not a criticism of this nice lady personally but a general note]. Identity politics is fostered by the ruling class to divide political opposition, divide the working class and keep us focussed on the culture war and never resisting them in the economic war they focus on. This is a favourite idea the wealthy elites, comfortable with the economic norms uses to co-opt opposition to the establishment so class consciousness never arises.
You forgot to add, they do this to keep us distracted while they take advantage of the profit stream through the war, medical, education, and prison system.
I agree. I think they do this because it is easier for them to organize and manipulate people than to actually try understand the complaints.
It's not fostered by them, its co-opted by them
@@KadaspalaThe ones who foster are the ones who benefit the most. They lobby politicians to make the laws easier for this corrupt system to flourish. I believe this began as a race issue but today it's transitioned into the have and have-nots. Race still plays a small part in it but sell-outs exist in all systems anyway.
Sure. If you're using the term in the way the media is using it and if you ignore everything that she's said here, then yeah. Stubbornly only running with politicians who look or otherwise are like you is a huge issue, and it keeps us divided and unable to band together and get things done. But if you actually listen to what she's saying, this is not at all what she means when she uses the term. Listen.
Beautiful, inspiring, thought provoking. Thank you both!
I love Bernie's attitude. Let's go forward as a people of all races and creeds to make all our lives better.
This woman is so eloquent!
When black women are free, we are all free. Wish Joy Ann Reid thought this
Joy Ann Reid is all about Joy Ann Reid.
not really.
when black women are free, black women are free.
people like me are still despised by the sjw.
@@sabin97 what kind of person are you and why does the sjws hate you?
Pretty narcissistic view if you ask me. And what even are the parameters around "free "?
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i was born with a penis, and never removed it. i also am sexually attracted only to women.
and i'm a brown person who doesnt buy into the sjw bullshit, they consider me worse than a traitor....like the kkk would do with one of the MANY milllions of non-racist white folks....
It's important to talk about identity politics in a general sense, but it becomes problematic when used as an attack against individuals. We've seen this used against Bernie with the sexist Bernie Bros narrative. Division and tribalism is our enemy, unity is our only hope.
@Wolfkiller Unity can not come at the price of appeasement. Too many times throughout history the exploited have been encouraged to put aside their particular concerns for the sake of unity. It is the time for whites to acknowledge the generational harm done onto brown and black people to their generational benefit. An apology would be a start to reconciliation.
Totally agree! It’s an important tool but people are using it as a weapon too often : (
Great interview and conversation, THANK YOU!
Thank you for teaching me about this wonderful woman
Brianna is pretty no matter what 🥰 with any hairstyle she has 👏👏👏👏👍🇺🇸❤️
We the people want Bernie!
I love listening to this channel. So much good going on here:D
Great episode as always! Barbara Smith is right on with everything she said. Briahna always does a fantastic job! So glad they are both with Bernie 2020 :)
Very inspiring interview. I was hoping she would talk about how identity politics are cynically deployed, but it’s also good she keeps it positive. I was surprised she didn’t touch upon Bernie’s work in the LGBTQ movement, bc he was ahead of his in this respect too, but she does mention being chair of the LGBTQIA committee in Sanders’s 2016 campaign. Barbara Smith makes me want to earn even more her endorsement.
The world needs you, President Bernie Sanders.
Inspirational and empowering... We need more teachers like Barbara.
BrillIant and affirming! Bernie2020
Great interview ! Would be better not canned .. interaction is good to have ..
BERNIE 💖 SANDERS 2020 ! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Before we get into this episode, my guess or for additional info on ID politics vs. what’s really at issue: What’s the Matter with Kansas by Thomas Frank. Explains how the red state Midwest used to be radically for the people, calling this day’s “billionaire” class “Robber Barons” back then. Then used Public Relations (mindf*ck) to polarize the people against the coastal cities “degenerate culture”. I hear he’s got a good new book, som’n about small d’eifying the democratic party.
Great Thanks to Barbara & Joy here for standing up for US
Yes!! Thank you for supporting newsprint!
A legend
I know this is going to be an unpopular opinion but I think it needs to be said. My issue with Identity Politics is that it is being used to justify the type of behavior that it complains about. In my opinion, if something is fair, it is fair for everyone. Making special rules for special groups of people is, generally speaking, just as bad as the original special rules that existed. I think it is perfectly fine to identify Identity Discrimination but the solution is to have politics that lifts all people and removes the original special rules that people previously abused.
This
Identity politics is simply acknowledging the fact that different groups of people have different relations to oppression. If I need to cross an ocean but you need to cross a mountain should we both try and do it the same way? Would it be a special rule for you to use a plane or for me to use a boat? Oppression and struggle are not a competition, there are no rules to to ending it.
American Hero .
What we need is an "identity politics" debate showdown:
Barbara Smith vs Zerlina Maxwell
This is what people mean when we say that there is a good identity politics and a bad one. It is a sad thing the way a term for inclusiveness has been used for people who want to try to divide people on narrow grounds.
I'm proud to say that my white grandfather openly supported the Civil Rights Movement and was fired from his job as a minister in Little Rock, AR because of it. Bernie2020
Please USA elect Bernie. Our world needs him.
Technically speaking, id/entity politics is right wing linguistic eugenics that appeals to the id/ego...
We may continue if you like...
Signed, a survivor of MKU
I wonder if it would be possible for you to speak to Angela Davis? Because that would be one amazing interview! Not sure if she’s willing to, but it would be awesome if that happened.
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We had to wait and wait and fight to get the "T" added to the LGB family.
I remember in the 90s there was a buzz in the gay rights community that OUR rights would be easier to achieve if we clipped those odd trans people off the end and just pushed for LGB rights. To those people I always proudly said, F-You. There is no equality until we are all equal.
@@garygil-schor1593 Yah. And the HRC and Barney Frank were the biggest proponents of that exclusion. Thanks for your support.
I'm not feeling the Bern. I'm feeling the Butti!
I won't let you hurt my planet. I won't let you hurt my friends.
Feel the Bern!
Bernie beats Trump!
Brianna becomes Secretary of State.
Bernie/Nina 2020!
Fun fact: you can increase the speed of a youtube video in the settings on the bottom right of the frame.
PLEASE LIKE & SHARE(ASK OTHERS TO ALSO) THESE VIDEOS TO FIGHT THE BLACKOUT & BIAS ON BERNIE
Why can't people have BOTH sidewalks & tree trimming ? Just asking .. 🖐️🤠
Interesting that one of the originators of intersectionality fully understands where Sanders is coming from, but tonnes of contemporary activists dismiss him, or worse, outright despise him, for being "a class reductionist". Very interesting indeed.
Nobody in the comment section listened to how she uses the term "identity politics"?
Reaganomics can be reversed but, only if we unite.
Read Dark Money by Jane Mayer.
All of the addendums about identity politics do NOT help this video.
Yes, a nuanced & thorough discussion of systemic discrimination & understanding how identity can effect circumstance CAN be enlightening, but the stone cold FACT of the matter is successive advocates for intersectionality have made mockery of the core concepts.
Any leftist interested in solidarity should first and foremost clarify what that solidarity means. Corporate Democrats believe it means that leftists need to fall in line and allow them to dictate public policy and even rig primaries. The woke "identity politics" crowd often seem to believe it means anyone outside of specific protected classes should STFU and kiss the ring.
In reality, it is about UNDERSTANDING what might divide us (experience, culture, temperament) and placing emphasis instead on what UNITES us (universal human rights, economic justice and a wish for social welfare, in its basic meaning. Even DEEP conservatives often believe in these very things, they just ALSO believe in a very different perspective of what they might mean and how to achieve them)
Identity politics has been used as a weapon for at LEAST 50 years, slowly becoming more and more cynical and less and less *meaningful* or based in reality. It's time to either ditch it or start cleaning house.
To those celebrating "heightened consciousness" or such things, please leave the echochamber. Speaking like this loses elections. I for one hope the unhelpful communication doesn't turn people off to the powerful and righteous message, but unfortunately, it often does. Folks are fed up of bourgie liberals lecturing them about their privilege while they're experiencing poverty (because while "privilege" might aptly describe certain aspects, it is RARELY discussed with academic rigour and typically a thin veil for racism and contempt for the working class, especially if they're white. Sad but true)
My warnings on this get me labelled a "bernie bro" but if the REPEATED ass kickings the neoliberals "on the left" have taken cynically pushing "intersectionality" as an ALTERNATIVE to economic justice isn't evidence enough, we are TRULY fucked.
#StopIDL
I think its a distraction from eccconomic oppression. Too many people think they get more oppression points for being a social minority when in reality we are in the same boat here. Rich vs poor.
24 people are sad they got booed.
bri the beauty!
Barbara Smith seems like such a sweet lady!
She just spent 15 minutes talking about slave history 200 years ago. Can we talk about mortgages, university, calculus, finance, business, rocket engine engineering, Japanese language, Mandarin in the business communities, making a car factory more efficient, cutting costs in a fudge factory, ....anything, everything that is in front of us.
everyone talk to your parents and grandparents!let them know it yours and your children's future on the line this time and ask them if they will vote for you and the planet . bernie is the only one who wants to do enough. money is great but as a chief said planet . people. profit. in that order. one can never be without the previous . i hope greed is not the death of it all. lets see how much they love us and give it a try.
Briahna is awesome, but folks, please do not push her to become Press Secretary. Press Secretary is a propagandist, a vital role if they speak truth to power (to themselves). Bri would be great, but the real energy needs to be at the base, to organize pressure on Senators to vote to pass Bernie's legislation. Bri would be better at that, no? Bernie should create proper administrative positions for this work, it is a vital necessity to counter corporate lobbyists. If you want the legislation to pass, you must be patient and put maximum voter pressure during the first year before the next mid-terms, then spend all political capital you've got in the second mid-term. Invest now for the (political)
profit next year. Then Bernie will then easily get a second term, and the sky's the limit to progressive reform/revolution after that. Be relentlessly strategic. The planet depends upon us.
Hope Bernie wins this Presidential Election. USA and World will then have a President alike F.D.R..
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SANDERS 46TH PRESIDENT!
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Not trying to be inappropriate but I think Briahna is beautiful. Had to say it...lol
I respectfully disagree about identity politics. Instead of rising to a more enlightened way of thinking about all people, we need to stop this ignorant dividing and conquering based on, in the grand scheme of things, petty differences like ethnicity, gender, sexuality, politics, et al. While those elements to one’s identity is entirely unique, fulfilling, and empowering to you, it may not be the same for others you may disagree with. And that’s fine. What isn’t is espousing ignorance and supremacy of ideology. And while I disagree with Barbara Smith on this issue, I respect her as a person and will read Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around to get more of her viewpoints. Nobody should be bullied into believing what’s correct or moral and I believe Barbara Smith would respect my viewpoint. I really believe Bernie’s coalition of all people will not only win the nomination but will become the 46th President.
I think you may have missed the original distinction. We all face the same forces but they affect different groups differently. When you attack these problems you need to be cognizant of these differences so you know you are address it for all people. Now it is used to refer to the cynical politicians who use it to pander and for political gain. Let's not let them distract us from the original valid point being made. I do care about race and gender and sexual orientation etc. I want policies to be crafted in ways that leave no one behind.
I agreed with you until I read Bernie's book where he filibustered One of the Wall Street bailouts on December 10th 2010. One of the people that joined his filibuster was a Senator from Louisiana. Ironically it was her statements that caused the light to come on. In that same filibuster, Senator Sanders could not understand why policies that continue to take money from the middle class and cause them to decline, while making millionaires and billionaires a storehouse of money, continues to be promoted by the Republican party. Then it hit me. Republicans are using and weaponizing the supply side economics argument, not because they believe that supply side economics works. They have been seeking to to cause deficit spending so that they can "Starve the beast" , which means cutting social programs like social security and Medicare.
A lot of people here would, no doubt, claim that traditional Christianity is homophobic. Well, OK, I'll just be a proud homophobe. And...vote for Bernie while not agreeing with everything he stands for. If you want to apply purity tests, then you'll get a roomful of voters.
Anyway, I voted for Trump while not agreeing with his insane tearing up of the Iran deal, or with his climate change denial.
BRIAHNA NO! WHAT DID YOU DO TO YOUR BEAUTIFUL HAIR?!?
She tied it back.
Chill.
@@antediluvianatheist5262 WHEW! Thanks for calming me down! And thanks for designing to actually respond to me just once!
She’s talking about a fundamental Marxist concept - dialectal materialism. Everything is connected to every else. It doesn’t matter what we do, everything that’s related to revolution has to come to terms, in some way, with Marxist theory, just updated and related to concrete historical conditions.
But it’s really difficult for American politicians or activists to mention the “M” word. So they talk around it, explain it, without using the name. Because as soon as “Marx” comes out of their mouths, people will call them dirty commies and switch off.
Which is very sad, because Marx contributed a lot.
Trump 2020