#BernieSoBlack creator explains why he's so frustrated with Sanders's supporters

[JaneyVee]

By Sunday, the rift between Sanders supporters and critics had gotten contentious. Roderick Morrow, a 36-year-old podcaster and comedian in Charlotte, North Carolina, pulled up a tried-and-true coping mechanism: the joke hashtag. #BernieSoBlack ended up trending nationally and fed a continuing controversy about whether Sanders and white progressives are taking racial inequality seriously enough.

Vox spoke to Morrow on Sunday evening about why he wasn't impressed with Sanders or his online fans, and whether he thinks the campaign and the progressive movement is responding to the demands of black progressives.

Link: http://www.vox.com/2015/7/20/9005855/black-twitter-bernie-sanders

[Scootaloo]

1. As I said when 1SBM posted it, it's a good read.

[JaneyVee]

2. Sorry, is it a duplicate?

[Scootaloo]

6. he posted it in the AA group, so no n/t

[HassleCat]

3. Yeah, he can do better

What he needs to do is sit down with some people from BLM and say, "Bring me up date, here. What am I missing?"

[HooptieWagon]

4. He scheduled a meeting with them just for that reason.

They rudely ambushed him prior to the meeting. I guess they were more interested in shouting and face time on camera than productive dialog.

[Agschmid]

18. Yah well they seemed to have perfectly normal meeting with O'Malley.

[HooptieWagon]

20. O'Malley didn't have a rally scheduled later.

Sanders pulled 12,000 diverse crowd into a rally early that evening.

[RobertEarl]

5. Where was Hillary?

She was at a big money party that carries the name of two old style slave owners: Jefferson Jackson.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251463620

The old democratic party needs to be done away with like we are doing to the confederate flag. It is time.

[JaneyVee]

7. Someones gotta raise money for the Democratic party.

It won't be productive with a 75-25 wingnut Senate.

[Agschmid]

19. Whaaaat a stretch.

[WorseBeforeBetter]

8. Guess Roderick missed the nearly thousand Moral Monday protesters arrested...

the majority of whom were white progressives. How could he have missed that? It took place in his own state, FFS.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_Mondays

Perhaps Roderick needs to spend less time online and pay attention to what's going in the real world. And while he's at it, a history lesson. And not get so bent out of shape over folks on Twitter. It would be like me attacking or not voting for Obama because the BOG is obnoxious.

[sufrommich]

9. You're comparing white progressives who were arrested,

ordered to do community service and pay a $180.00 fine to black people getting killed without the benefit of ever getting to the courthouse.This is why you have a problem.

[Kalidurga]

10. comparing...

is a stretch so far it whispers a lie.

[sufrommich]

11. Why was it brought up then? nt

[Kalidurga]

12. I don't care why.

I am not a mind reader. I can read text perfectly fine though. My reading comprehension is 98%. You are mischaracterizing what was written and now you are demanding an explanation from a second party? That is in very poor form.

[sufrommich]

13. You accused me of stretching the post into a lie.

I can read too. If a poster posts a "what about these white people who were arrested" in a thread that has absolutely nothing to do with white people getting arrested for protesting,I think it's safe to assume it was posted to show that the police arrest white people too. A tone deaf comparison if ever there was one.

[Kalidurga]

15. They were arrested for protesting liberal causes.

And you are in attacky mode because it's just not as bad as being oppressed for being darker skinned. Black people getting murdered is genocide that is bad. Arresting people for protesting over this treatment is bad. So is attacking someone for bringing the issue up. Try to be nicer.

[WorseBeforeBetter]

14. NO... I am not making that comparison.

But this "white progressives don't get it" bullshit is just that -- bullshit. White progressives are not the enemy. Republicans don't give a shit about blacks. Sensible Centrists aren't getting banged up at Occupy, or arrested at Moral Mondays. It's white progressives, along with minorities at MMs, who protested and were arrested. Topics ranged from voting rights, economic justice, social justice, womens' rights, labor rights, etc. Sorry, I'm not impressed with divisive Twitter loudmouths. Especially one who is bent out of shape over a politician's online fans. It's too fucking stupid for words.

[Skwmom]

16. Just because someone says they are a supporter of Sanders does not make it so. n/t

[Cha]

17. "Sort of. The thing about the Bernie Sanders fans is while they're very obtuse and they don't listen

..they are more polite than the people who just call you the n-word or a racial slur or something. It's more like that passive-aggressive "We're on the same side, man!" where clearly they don't want you to talk about anything that their candidate can do better, but they do want you to just vote for him."

Thanks for the link, Janey

Imani Gandy ?@AngryBlackLady
let me know how this "harass Black people into supporting Bernie Sanders" campaign is working out for y'all.
#BidenMeteor2016
8:28 AM - 20 Jul 2015 87 87 Retweets
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Imani Gandy ?@AngryBlackLady
👉🏾 RT @rodimusprime: If these Bernie Standers knew how many black voters they are losing with these tone deaf Twitter attacks...

7:29 AM - 20 Jul 2015 29 29 Retweets
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MOre Tweets http://theobamadiary.com/2015/07/20/a-tweet-or-two-302/

Must be bad on twitterverse

[LWolf]

21. Thanks for this.

It's worth reading.

It's clear that the issue is, not as much Sanders or his campaign, but those supporters of his campaign who aren't "getting" the message.

This Sanders supporter is making an effort to do just that.

[Luminous Animal]

22. There are a lot of us who are listening.