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Old White Man Given Credit for Black Woman’s Work
The Vermont lawmaker did nothing, but was hailed as a hero for not using the n-word that one time.
This is a spoof/satire of a truly naïve article with just about all of the erasure of minority voices from MSN and thereby borrows heavily from it.
An impassioned plea by California Senator and Vice President Elect Kamala Harris to increase direct payments for Americans to $2,000 has been co-opted by Vermont Senator and two time sore-loser Bernie Sanders.
During his speech in one of the few Senate appearances the oft absentee Senator has made Sanders ignored countless hours of work by Democratic women including Nancy Pelosi, Kamala Harris, and others to instead use his own tweet as a visual aid to bolster his push for Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) to put in a good word for him to Russia and help get him more of that sweet sweet KGB cash.
Sanders said McConnell “might want to get on the phone and start talking to working families in Kentucky” about getting the $2,000 check, pointing out the state demographics are 87% white and that means a lot of poor white folks.
Sanders — in a rare acknowledgement of how both democracy and simple arithmetic work — said it would be tough to get the…
