Why Bernie Sanders’ problems with black voters go much deeper than him just blaming the media

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115. How many times has this been discussed in the past couple months? A thousand?

Did you miss all that?

Brief sum up:

Bernie screwed up at the beginning of his campaign, subsuming race issues to economic issues. Most of his supporters deny this ever happened. You don't seem to see it, either. I heard him do it on NPR. Black people see racial issues as separate to economic issues, not as a sub-issue to economic issues. It was a graphic example of how out of touch Bernie was with black people's beliefs.

Bernie corrected himself, over time. Some of his supporters, not so much. They quote his life as a civil rights activist 50 years ago. That's a long time ago. Bernie has not been a civil rights activist since then, but has been a civil rights supporter in his votes. This makes him a good guy, but not a civil rights hero, or activist, except in a historical sense. Some of his supporters place him near to MLK.

Cornel West is poison in the black community. This was discussed endlessly, too, as to why. Mostly, Cornel's wild attacks on Obama for years and years, which reek of Cornel's personal jealousy. Bringing Cornel onto Bernie's campaign only hurts Bernie in the eyes of African Americans.