I would even say Robert Byrd is a false comparison, although I have so much respect for him. From what it sounds like, Ellison was looking for a way to get involved in activism and stumbled onto this. It took him a bit of time (not as long as it took Byrd, who rose to grand dragon or silver wizard or whatever levels…

Except he did. “But I clearly didn’t go deep enough. I defended the organizer of the March in writing, but I glossed over the hurtful and divisive language he directed at other communities. In my effort to pursue justice for the African-American community, I neglected to scrutinize the words of those like Khalid…

He actually did the absolutely correct thing someone should do in these situations. Admitted he was involved, that he thought their interests (fighting for racial equality) would be aligned, found out they weren’t and separated himself from them and disavowed them. THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT YOU SHOULD DO. Keith Ellison…

If there are hundreds, name three.

None of your comments read as being supportive of Farrakhan but it sure seemed like most of the hive mind replying sure felt that way.

Given the attendance at the march poison your support of Obama? Like it or not a huge number of black politicians were there. I smell anti Muslim bigotry

“What’s the deal with the smear campaign...”

You don’t have to empathize with them. However, at some point, after losing close to 3/4 of state governorships to the GOP and losing the national Electoral College to a complete buffoon, the Democratic Party needs to do something for Middle America beyond more of the same. The fact is, we need this region’s votes…

Apparently that benefit of the doubt is only for white people. At least that’s the only logical conclusion one can come to when the people who are decrying Ellison won’t say the same about Robert Byrd.

No one is defending Farrakhan, slugger. I read her comment as criticizing the false equivalency the original poster is trying to establish and the mouth breathing troglodytes cosigning it.

The right loves nothing more than leftist parties full of saloon socialists who are leftist in name only. Have the Democrats taken a look at the leftist-liberal parties here in Europe? The Labour Party in Britain? The Socialists in France? The Social Democrats in Germany? They’ve all rendered themselves obsolete, by…

Still can’t watch the news, so I don’t know what’s going on here, but I just came to say that Rep. Ellison is beloved in MN. Even the people who hate his politics still respect the guy because of his absolute devotion to his district and his state. He has deeply held and very strong convictions, but he is not an…

That’s stupid, though. I don’t even like Farrakhan, but to say that he’s ever participated in activities against Jewish people that are comparable to activities the KKK has participated in against Black people and Jewish people and lots of other types of people is simply not factual. So once again, someone’s “views”…

Based on the recent dismal electoral results, we’re in a new era of smear-openness now, so let’s just say he’s black y’all, and he’s black y’all and he’s blacker than black and he’s black y’all, and he’s bliggity-bliggity-bliggity-bliggity black y’all.

I mean, that’s all well and good, but I read on Facebook that Keith Ellison’s favorite actor is Mel Gibson.

See, the right knows that if we are led by pro-labor hard-lefters we’ll be able to siphon away their base. They’re on the offensive, so we should be too.

Right? There is nothing more “skilled” about working an assembly line than working at McDonalds or in retail. It’s not like being a doctor, or welder, or mechanic. The only difference is that factory workers organized and fought for decent pay, benefits, the five day work-week, ect. And because so many of those jobs…

I like how people act as though $15 is far too much to pay a worker who is “unskilled” but nobody ever asks what that worker’s value to the company is.

People who want manufacturing jobs to return are not delusional. But people who think Trump will make it happen are.

To celebrate the economic policies of the incoming Administration, I was thinking of starting a kind of Uber/car delivery service that will bring discounted pencils and apples directly to your doorstep. Drivers to be paid in apple cores and pencil nubs.