By request...some comments from Bernie Sanders 2014 NPR Interview

[Number23]

7. This is the impetus behind the desperate waving around of any brown person that even so much

as glances in Bernie Sanders direction. There are still people to this day that think that him bringing Cornell on board will make dramatic inroads with black people. The vast majority of them are white but just as you can find a smattering of black folks at every Tea Party rally, there will be a smattering of black folks that subscribe to this line of thinking. And they would be every bit as wrong as their white friends.

Someone recently posted a cartoon of Hillary, Trump, Sanders and Bush. Sanders has a sign that says "Love" and thousands of followers. Trump has a sign that says "Hate" with about a dozen or so followers. Clinton and Bush are in the lead but have no followers and both look pretty sad.

The cartoon is trying to make a point but it's kind of stupid. If neither Clinton or Bush had no followers, how in the world would they be in the lead??? But the idea that Trump, who is unquestionably running on a platform of hate, has less followers than Sanders is just wrong. Hate has always appealed to more voters than love.

voting for a person of color doesn't prove someone isn't racist. Bobby Jindahl would have no political career if racist people never voted for people of color.

You couldn't be more right about this. And we see evidence of this every single day and have for the last eight years.