Ken Burch
2 min readOct 15, 2024

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Ahh, the Nineties- when the "Democratic" presidential nominee made a point of basing nearly all of his presidential campaign on his endorsement of the entire white backlash narrative- on his robotic acceptance of the canard that every major societal problem in this country- out of wedlock births, welfare fraud- a nearly nonexistent phenomenon in the US- drug use and crime- was due almost exclusively to the alleged moral slackness of the Black community- the community who, in the Clinton "moderate Democrat" telling, were the ONLY people who ever showed any moral or personal failings- never mind that more white people than people in any other group were guilty of those particular failings- and who compounded that by basing his crime policy, in very large measure, on a pledge to kill as many Black people as possible- since, of course, the only reason white people support the death penalty and “tough on crime” policing is to be allowed to legally kill as many Black people as possible.

All this from a man who, in his personal life, was morally inferior to everyone in the Black community he so relentlessly slandered, even while relentlessly demanding its support and loyalty, even when his moral inferiority was the reason he was impeached.

And when anyone in the party that had supported civil rights and human equality before this candidate took it over- and nearly destroyed it in electoral terms on every level below the presidency- was told to shut up and just accept all this because "it's enough that he's pro-choice!".

What a wonderfully "color blind" era that was.

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Ken Burch
Ken Burch

Written by Ken Burch

Retired Alaska ferryboat steward, grandparent, sometime poet. Radical yet independent of dogma. Likes nice days, playing banjo and not as yet dying of Covid.

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