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In reply to the discussion: WashPo: Warren just gave the speech that Black Lives Matter activists have been waiting for [View all]Number23
(24,544 posts)I have always understood why people would support him, but because of her high fiving and giggling with folks here that were Sanders supporters that could not have made it more obvious that they were hostile to black people. I said something to her about her "new friends" and we actually didn't talk for a few months. It was upsetting to me because I have always adored her but I couldn't understand what was happening.
She was genuine in her support for Sanders. But it was only when the attacks against #BLM began that she realized that what I was saying to her was true. That was when she made it her mission to try to explain how, as a black woman, when these guys accused black posters of "playing the race card" for daring to question Sanders and attacked #BLM it was INCREDIBLY upsetting to her. And well, we all saw how well that worked out for her.
She'll tell you. For a few months we were not friends at all. So it makes all of the "I never bought her schtick" from people here that did their hardest to minimize her when she was doing nothing but posting in good faith and having the unmitigated nerve to explain how the attacks on BLM looked to black Sanders supporters all the more disgusting. I think she still supports Sanders on a fundamental level but I don't think she will ever return to DU.