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In reply to the discussion: Ellison no lock for DNC chair [View all]BainsBane
(53,032 posts)Yet you don't consider Harrison for a second because he didn't endorse Bernie. Let's not pretend there is some sudden concern for AA voters. We weren't in a coma during the primary. And that you so contemptuously dismiss the TN Democratic Party with its large percentage of African Americans is all too reminiscent of the attitude toward black voters--demeaned as the "confederacy" -- during the primary. Bernie is after all the candidate who insisted that allowing states with large black populations to vote relatively early in the primary distorted "Reality."
If you're going to exclude states controlled by Republicans from having a say in the DNC chair, that excludes the majority of them. It's also ironic considering you all insisted Clinton was derelict for failing to focus on white male voters in GOP controlled states. The arguments shift so rapidly according to convenience that it becomes impossible to see any concern other than Bernie. In fact, it's obvious that Nothing matters but Bernie.
Ellison happens to be a solid progressive, but if he were a pro-life, Islamophobe, and opponent of the Iran peace deal, the crowd who makes decisions entirely based on who endorsed Bernie in the primary would still support him, as we have seen with one congressional candidate after another.
I think it unfortunate that some party members are rejecting Ellison because he is Sanders choice. I would hope he could make the argument that he is not beholden to Sanders and would not carry out the divisive attacks on Democrats that Sanders makes his hallmark. I've never known Ellison to be divisive, but that his chief proponent regularly directs his ire at the party makes Ellison's task more difficult.