Questions for Bernie supporters: NPR interview 'You shouldn't base your politics on your skin color'

[okasha]

198. He mrant what he said, and what he said was bullshit.

How am I not supposed to take skin color into political.consideration when thousands of people who share my skin color still live in what amount to concentration camps? When white men go onto reservations to rape Native women in epidemic numbers because the tribal courts can't prosecute them, and the state courts won't? When our young people who have fled into cities are killing themselves with drugs and alcohol, in part because most of us lack the genetic mechanisms that allow the body to process alcohol properly?

Don't 'splain to me again how that's a "special interest group" issue. Don't tell me about the rising tide that lifts all boats, because all that does is smear lipstick on the trickle-down pig. And do not spew platitudes to me about how you're sympathetic to the "plight" of First Nations peoples. We don't have a plight, we have problems.

Tell me what Sanders is going to do to address them. Start with the broken treaties that open up reservation lands to white exploitation. Tell me what he will do about schools on the rez. Tell me about jobs and job training.

Go on. Tell me.