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In reply to the discussion: Not Good Enough, Bernie [View all]jwirr
(39,215 posts)of collapsing and that does not exempt anyone. What effects one also effects the rest of us. Believe me we are all involved.
Many of us have been involved in discussions regarding things like Ferguson MO and were totally behind the protesters and have been fighting to get the police brutality stopped right along side of you but some how that is not important now. Racism is and has always been a very big part of the problems in the USA. Back in the 60s when there were discussions regarding economic problems there was a saying, "The New Deal never reached the ghetto" and it still hasn't. (By the way the discussion was actually about economic conditions on the reservation.) The economic revolution is a civil rights issue because the economic revolution never has reached the poc.
I am one of those horrible white folks who support Bernie so I must not care about poc. That does not hold up. And it does not hold up against Bernie either. In my case - I am the old white grandmother in a family the includes 31 black/Native American members. When MLK led the march to DC every race and color were there. His revolution involved all of us. So does Bernie's.
I hear your anger but I don't think Bernie deserves it.