87% of African Americans view Hillary Clinton favorably

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318. No, that is not what I am saying

I am saying African Americans know their own interests better than self-entitled white folk who treat them as less. I'm saying people who continually show they think they and not African Americans are fit to decide what is good for them piss off many African Americans, which you would know if you ever read the posts in that group. But then few here do because they simply do not care what anyone but themselves thinks or experiences. The issue isn't Clinton vs. Sanders. That is merely the pretext for the efforts to exclude the majority from the party and the body politic.

I guess the influence would be if you all go out in to communities and act like you do here, and if his other supporters behave similarly. Regardless, one has to wonder why people who purport to support a candidate would devote themselves to treating other Democrats, particularly the most reliable Democratic voters, with contempt.

I know that the vitriol and vapid attacks on Clinton here on DU have convinced me to consider her, something I never did in 2008. I also know that you all appear to be working day and night to turn people off voting for Sanders. When someone asks about plans or his legislative accomplishments, they are met with ridicule. One would think they are deliberately seeking to undermine his candidacy, but I think ultimately their political values are so wedded to their own privilege, they can't imagine that anyone but their own select group has any concerns or views that could possibly matter.

Ultimately, I think the entire notion of vesting so much in a single individual is a profoundly conservative and vapid approach to social and economic change. You for example, rail against Clinton and blame her for violence and death but bend over backward to justify Japanese human rights abuses in WWII. Your response to the death of a dictator is to threaten to hit a woman. We are told that isn't real violence, even though it's the kind of violence that touches and takes more lives than war. Others claim to oppose war while promoting the internal war of gun violence in the US that has claimed over 1.4 million lives since 1968. Many here claim to resent corporations but spend all their time attacking ordinary Democrats, often less privileged than themselves. I see a huge chasm between stated values and actions.