The Bernie Sanders race argument is a cheap shot.

[BrotherIvan]

77. I am a person of color

And I think white people on DU counting the number of dark people in the audience and extrapolating that out to mean that a candidate somehow is ignoring issues of race in a way to prop up your chosen candidate is off the charts disgusting. Yeah, he didn't bus people in to make Vermont look less white. His optics don''t suit you. Let's all ignore the issues and argue about how Bernie Sanders condones the history of American racism because he didn't effect his best southern preacher voice. Too bad, he could have been a contender.

I will tell you that in my neighborhood, they don't make this wholly fictional distinction between social justice and economic justice that has been planted on DU by upper middle class people stumping for an agenda. They are working class people who will tell you they WANT good jobs, education for their children, healthcare and a social safety net. Those things effect them just as much as whites when they are drowning in economic hardship and their kids don't have much of a future. Surprise! All of you social justice warriors are saying they don't deserve that and that you are looking out for their best interests by policing optics? It is agenda driven and transparent as hell. So glad there is only a handful of people who are pushing it here.