New poll shows that Black voters really aren’t ‘Feeling the Bern’

[Coolest Ranger]

30. No we aren't

and quite frankly we are getting tired at Sanders supporters telling us that hey you should vote for him because he marched with Dr. King. I usually respond that was 48 years ago, what has he done for my community since then? Then they go to, he marched with Dr. Lewis. I'm like okay but that still does not explain to me what he has done for my community.

Then they go to he going to get us all free stuff. Then I ask them how are you going to get it through a republican controlled congress. Dead silence, nothing but dead silence. Then they come back and say he's fighting for our issues.

To which I reply do you understand that as a black man, your issues that you are voting for is not the same as the issues that I am voting for. I try to explain to them that they never have to worry about cops profiling them. I try to tell them that they never have to worry about being stopped and then frisked like we are. I explain to them that they never have to live in a community where the water is poisoned. I also explain to them that no one is trying to suppress your vote. They always come back to the economic crap which I could not care less about right now.

They wonder why so many of us get frustrated at their constant lack of reason. I just don't even engage them any more. I know they go back and tell their fellow supporters what I say because moments later, I see new Bernie people come into my comments trying their little hearts out to convince me I'm on the wrong side. Sometimes they will get a young POC to make their argument. I go on that person's page and I see that it was just created in the last few months so most of the time I don't know if that POC is real or someone white pretending to be black.

I will be glad when the primaries are over and Hillary is our nominee.