I guess you could say that women of color have reservations about working for the Elizabeth Warren campaign. Politico is reporting a mass exodus of minority women from Warren’s Nevada campaign team because of racism and a “toxic work environment.” You’d think with Warren being a Native American she could relate to other women of color but that’s not the case. Warren’s campaign is now only 1/1024 diverse and she’s tanking in the primaries.
With the terrible showing in Iowa, this Politico piece is the last thing Warren’s fading dreams of the presidency needed:
A half-dozen women of color have departed Elizabeth Warren’s Nevada campaign in the run-up to the state’s caucuses with complaints of a toxic work environment in which minorities felt tokenized and senior leadership was at loggerheads.
The six staffers have left the roughly 70-person Nevada team since November, during a critical stretch of the race. Three of them said they felt marginalized by the campaign, a situation they said didn’t change or worsened after they took their concerns to their superiors or to human resources staff.
Tokenized and marginalized? Those are liberal code words for racism. For shame, Liz.
“During the time I was employed with Nevada for Warren, there was definitely something wrong with the culture,” said Megan Lewis, a field organizer who joined the campaign in May and departed in December. “I filed a complaint with HR, but the follow-up I received left me feeling as though I needed to make myself smaller or change who I was to fit into the office culture.”
Another recently departed staffer, also a field organizer, granted anonymity because she feared reprisal, echoed that sentiment. “I felt like a problem — like I was there to literally bring color into the space but not the knowledge and voice that comes with it,” she said in an interview.
She added: “We all were routinely silenced and not given a meaningful chance on the campaign. Complaints, comments, advice, and grievances were met with an earnest shake of the head and progressive buzzwords but not much else.” A third former field organizer who was also granted anonymity said those descriptions matched her own experience.
And the weird thing is, Warren’s campaign is basically saying, “Yeah, we did that.”
Warren’s campaign did not dispute the women’s accounts but suggested they do not reflect a broader problem within her large, 31-state organization.
“We strive for an inclusive environment and work hard to learn and improve. We have an organization of more than a thousand people, and whenever we hear concerns, we take them seriously. It’s important that everyone who is part of our team has a voice and can be heard. That’s why we are proud that we have a unionized staff and clear processes for issues to be addressed,” said campaign spokesperson Kristen Orthman.
Orthman? That doesn’t sound like a very diverse last name.
This is a brilliant defense. They don’t deny the racism that forced these women of color out, but claim it’s an isolated incident and offer the unionization of the campaign as proof. How does that make any damn sense?
Here’s what I think the problem is: Elizabeth Warren naturally assumed all women of color are just like her; a white woman pretending to be a minority. When they hired some actual minority women, they had no idea how to deal with them. “What do you mean you’re black? Like black, black?”
This shouldn’t come as much of a shock. Democrats are all completely full of shit. They claim to be the party of diversity and inclusion, but they’re the most racist people in the country. All their major candidates are white and all their leadership positions are filled by white people. The entire history of the democratic party is one of racism and yet they accuse the Republicans of being the real racists.
Wanna have some fun? Try to find a picture of Elizabeth Warren with a black person because I couldn’t track one down for this article.
