Sen. Bernie Sanders On How Democrats Lost White Voters

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88. One AA President in the history of this country

and they vote based on race? Like us white people have been voting based on race our whole lives by voting for white guys. Do you not get how dismissive that comment is? AAs voted for Obama in close to the same proportion they have voted for other Democratic presidential candidates in recent years.

You can blame the messenger all day long, but the fact is Bill learned of this interview because it is getting coverage in the African American media. Now it's obvious people here not only don't give a shit about comments like this but you go so far as to affirm them. However, I can tell you many African Americans don't looks so favorably on them and unlike people here, they don't believe Sanders' career is more important than how politicians speak about how they exercise their democratic rights.

That voting based on race comment is straight from the GOP. It's shameful that he said it and even worse that some think it acceptable to affirm it. One black president out of 250 years of this country. AAs have been voting for white people their entire lives, as long as they can vote. The rest of us, on the other hand, have been voting exclusively for presidents of our own race.

You ought to be worried about how African Americans vote. They vote for Democrats, and there is no sign that is going to change. Comments like this certainly aren't going to help that.