I woke up early for this. #BlackHistoryMonthBreakfast and meeting Congressmember #SheilaJacksonLee. Good speech!

Also, she implored me and the guy who graciously took this photo (Jeremy Ackles) to consider supporting Hillary in the Dem primary over building on, rather than “ripping up”, the ACA. I didn’t get to mention to her that I support Bernie before she left, but I did introduce myself by telling her that I admire her work on Haiti and defending the Cherokee Freedmen community. But hearing this from an African-American congresswoman from Texas, this makes sense.

There is a fear among incumbent Dems, perhaps well-founded, that Bernie will campaign on starting over on healthcare reform, taking us back to the drawing board of 2009-2010. Convos with Dominick on the utter dearth of healthcare for isolated parts of South Georgia come to mind, especially for African-American rural residents.

Maybe I’m weighing between the heart and the head. Heart-driven progressives are concerned with taking on Wall Street, Big Pharma, Fossil Fuels, and other big profit-driven or security-driven institutions. Head-driven liberals, especially those concerned with maximizing the social contract for their historically-disadvantaged communities, are concerned with making the best (and better) of the here-and-now. My heart and head are at play. Revolution or chess match? Immediate uprising or long-term reform?

I have no doubt that Clinton would be able to lead needed reforms or that Sanders would be the voice of conscience as head of state, even though Republicans have the downticket advantage. But which approach can we afford, the moral appeals of Sanders or the effective pragmatism of Clinton? It feels like the most dichotomous party primary in history.