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Rev. Sharpton nails 'offensive and elitist' Dem lawmakers for ignoring Black Biden votershttps://t.co/7U3Konm7DK

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 The late John Kenneth Galbraith told a story of his experience in (IIRC) the FDR Administration. It started as a story of ants rolling a ball of shit back to the ant bed. As they roll downhill the ball gains momentum and the ants frantically signal to each other, via antennae (just go with it): “Stop this shit!”

Galbraith used his first two fingers to imitate the frantic antennae messaging, wiggling them back and forth. He said it became a secret code when they were meeting with people seeking favors from the Administration. They’d waggle two fingers at each other: “Stop this shit.”

I was in Milwaukee yesterday doing a eulogy for a Black man killed by some hotel guards," he recalled. "People in an uproar about that are saying to me, you cannot win Wisconsin without Milwaukee and Black turnout. And they were saying to me, well, we have questions about Biden's age, but where do we go? Are they going to try to undermine Kamala Harris?" 

"So, I think that if we're talking a coalition, you've got to remember the basic roots of that coalition: Blacks, Latinos, and labor," he continued. "You can't just take for granted, we're going to go where some people just want to go and abandon someone who has been with us." 

"I looked at the press conference last night and said, where are the Black reporters?" he told the MSNBC host. "I mean, we're looking at all whites questioning Biden, and Black voters are supposed to get in line? I think that a lot of the people that are stepping out there taking things for granted. You notice that maybe only one member of the Congressional Black Caucus has said Biden ought to step aside."  

"Congressman Jim Clyburn (D-SC) will be on [MSNBC's] 'Politics Nation' with me tomorrow night. I'll be guided a lot by what he has to say," he remarked. " Don't forget, it was the stone wall of the Black voter and then the Latino vote that put Biden in nomination. And for us to be left out of these discussions I think is offensive and elitist."

Take a lesson from the ants.