I have friends that listen to hip hop and rap, the mainstream kind, in their Prius and feel "gangsta" or "hood". These are my friends that are hardcore on the Hillary band wagon. They are going to vote for her with out any analyzing how she is promoting the white capitalist system. She is all about LGBT politics as long as those queer people are white and at least working class. My friends don't care, but I do. On the one hand, I don't want to vote for her because she is going to perpetuate and strengthen the system that endangers Qpoc lives by passing and promoting laws that make it easier for cops and other system enforcers to commit acts of violence against Qpocs. However, she will benefit some queers. She will make it so that privileged queers, like my aforementioned friends, will be able to go to the bathroom and not be discriminated against in the work place. Which is good. But I hate looking at my gender non conforming, poor, or people of color queer family and telling them "not today", "not yet", "this is not for you", or "we'll come back for you" because we never come back for them. We leave them behind to fight their own separate battle after they helped with ours believing it was an inclusive movement. This is what makes me a separatist, because I should have a movement that actually benefits me and my people. But I am a privileged Qpoc 60% of the time and this movement does benefit me sometimes. And I am able to use some of the resources to help a few fellow Qpocs. I would rather reach some people than not be able to help anybody at all but it is attitudes like that that keep the separatist movement from succeeding. It needs to be all or nothing. But I am going to vote for Hillary even though I am very conflicted about it. I will offer analyst of what she is really saying when she days that gay marriage is an important issue.
Stay fierce yo
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