I told you a while back about how Bob “Crooksy” Brooks had posted some racist stuff, particularly his support for a racist flag “because Colin Kaepernick doesn’t like this flag.” Look, Kaepernick has his faults, but it’s racist as hell to post a flag actual racists use it and a Black guy hates it, but I’ll chalk that up to Crooksy being ignorant. I mean, I know exactly what he was signaling to his buddies on the internet, but whatever. I also knew there was more. It’s no shock that the guy Bernard Sanders endorsed, the guy who stiffed his mother-in-law out of $55,000 (that she still hasn’t collected a dime of), the guy who is a religious fanatic, said racist shit. You just knew there would be more fun stuff to talk about.

Well, there is plenty, and we’ll start with another example of his attitudes about prominent Black people- this time, President Barack Obama. It turns out, “Crooksy” said “unfortunately he sucks” about the 44th President of the United States. On September 5th, 2012, right as President Obama was in the thick of his competitive re-election against Mitt Romney, “Crooksy” weighed in with that opinion. Today, “Crooksy” and his team would have you know that he would defend President Obama’s signature achievements (like Obamacare), which I don’t believe, but he swears so. If Obama’s actual policy achievements are worth running for Congress to defend, what exactly made President Obama “suck?” Was it that “Crooksy” actually didn’t like President Obama’s policies and won’t defend things like the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau that was created under Dodd-Frank, that he didn’t support Obamacare, President Obama’s rejuvenation of the COPS Bill to hire new cops on the street, or maybe Obama’s immigration policies? Maybe “Crooksy” was actually a MAGA Trumper until he pulled a coup to become a union leader? Or let’s be honest, could it have just been as simple as to say that “Crooksy” thought President Barack Obama “sucks” because he was a famous black guy like Colin Kaepernick? Look, I have no idea, but “Crooksy” would have you believe now he’s going to Washington as some sort of defender of President Obama’s achievements, but back then he wanted his buddies he tended bar with or whatever that he knew that President Obama “sucks.”

When a candidate runs for office, they tell you what you want to hear, because they want to win. When they were posting things 14 years before that totally contradict what they say now, but do tend to jive with the other really racist, crazy shit they were saying all the way up until they became a public figure, that is exactly who they are. A lot of Democrats won’t call out that this guy is either not a Democrat, or is a straight up return to Dixiecrat roots, because they’re afraid of angering people they want to support them. Look, whatever, I don’t really expect most of these people to have some sort of “profile in courage” moment. I get it, they need the Governor to give them that grant, they need that union to endorse them, they want the party to come campaign for them. That’s fine, like I said, most of these guys are terrified of their own shadow. Let’s call it like it is though- some of us worked for President Obama, some of us worked for the Democratic Party at that time to elect him and people who agreed with him. For some of us, that belief in the President’s values would literally come back to save our life. You can bury your head in the sand as much as you want- nominating someone who shares so few of your values that he embraces MAGA-style soft racism is total capitulation. If you’re fine with that, fine, go ahead. I’m not. I’m not going to be. I was enthusiastic about 2012 Barack Obama. Were you?