DC Statehood Greens: The Green Party in a nutshell

Three Tweets will tell you where I'm coming from:

First this:

Sooo ... the DC Statehood Green Party can't get anybody to run for Congress https://t.co/pPSlZaPjYq .... but DOES have two (cheesy) https://t.co/5JFj8k7nxM different (official?) https://t.co/HRhMLAigKC websites? Sounds about right for a Green Party affiliate 1/x

— TheRealSocraticGadfly (@real_gadfly) July 14, 2022

Then this:

I'll add that both the Twitter account and Facebook page listed for DC Statehood Greens by the Green Party are defunct. Meanwhile, its Facebook group? 2/ .@GreenPartyUS https://t.co/L9KjGAcgYr

— TheRealSocraticGadfly (@real_gadfly) July 14, 2022

Then this:

DC Statehood Greens' Facebook group is a hot mess, with the leading poster engaged in reverse racism not just against Whites, but anybody non-Black. (Rico sounds like a Black Ed Abbey on immigration, for example.) 3/

— TheRealSocraticGadfly (@real_gadfly) July 14, 2022

And now I'll expand.

First is simple fact. And, given that the Facebook group that's still active boasts of pushing DC Republicans into third-party status back in 2006, is a sign of a party in decline — or, like many state Green parties, a shell that's run by a person who's a perma-chairperson rather than a permanent candidate.

Third? Rico Martin claims that immigration both legal and illegal harms Blacks in America above all and apparently wants to put a stop to it. (Does that include the new African diaspora? Black Caribbeans?) Along with that, he salutes the Supreme Court on Roe v. Wade, insinuates that abortion has been part of eugenics against Blacks. (I'm aware of Margaret Sanger, but I'm also aware of Black women having free will and agency to elect an abortion on their own, and therefore say he's wrong, as well as his claim that nobody in Black America wants it. 

Related to the above? He uses "Freedmen" a lot. Not sure how he fits the new African diaspora into that. And, he used the DC Greens' official Facebook Group to push a South Carolina, not DC, Congressional candidate who was pushing the immigration narrative and more. (For the record, Marcel Dixon got smoked, getting less than 5 percent in a three-way primary that included incumbent and senior House Democrat James Clyburn.)

As for the immigration? I watched the first 7-8 minutes of the video and found it full of crap. On illegal immigrants, one person repeated the White wingnut claim that they use "other government programs." As in, they're "welfare reynas," to riff on Reagan. Untrue, of course. Another claims that going back as far as Frederick Douglass, many Black leaders have been against immigration period. Funny, I read a great Douglass bio, new, just a couple of years ago, and that's not mentioned about him. What IS mentioned, among many good things about him, is also that he incorporated White biases about American Indians and claimed they'd never been victims of racism. No, really.

On his personal Facebook page (he posts to public, so it's all fair game) he's also anti-LGBQT (and the pre-trans gay angle on that, too). That includes hoping that SCOTUS overturns gay marriage like Roe.

He also claims Black Lives Matters was about "trans" Blacks only. Funny, I thought it was about Black capitalists only.

For "good measure," he's also an antivaxxer.