I only get into trouble on DU when I try to get to what's real.

[bravenak]

234. I've told your group 150,000 times how to help Bernie with black people.

For my trouble I was called 'race nagger', told that I lack the mental acuity to understand, told how 'MUCH HE'S DONE FOR YOU PEOPLE', told that if I kept talking that white progressuves would 'pull support' from black issues, alerted until I have three hides in three days, annoyed, harassed, called a Lee Atwater plant, told to kiss Hillary's ass, told to get out of the democratic party (not welcome), that money would fix racism, etc. best thing for Bernie would be for his supporters to stfu for a while and listen to what black folks are saying if they want to increase his support.

First of all, those rallys are TOO WHITE to draw black folks to them in large numbers. If we are over thirty percent of the party, the rally should have a GOOD mix of races, not just have us playing 'Where's Waldo' looking for black faces. Second, he has so few blacks on his staff, he has no idea what we think. Third, his supporters call blacks animals and tell them to 'go back to Baltimore' at Netroots and you all wonder why we feel uncomfortable with supporting him? This is why. His message speaks to white progressives and they think his message is supoosed to speak to us. Marches from 50 years ago ain't saving our children! We want to know how he will address racism, but how can we trust a man with such racist supporters? We cannot.