"Why African-American voters may doom Bernie Sanders’ candidacy"

[Empowerer]

52. I like and respect Nina Turner but I don't agree with her

She believes that Sanders "is the person who can best move this forward." That's great. She has a right to her opinion. But I don't share that opinion and the fact that she is a black woman, like me, does not mean that we should think alike.

One of the problems in this debate is the tendency of Sanders supporters to stick a black person in our faces and say "see? SHE supports Sanders" as if all black people should think alike and, if Nina Turner supports Sanders, why don't I? Interestingly, I don't see that being done on the flipside. Exponentially more black people support Hillary Clinton than support Bernie Sanders, but many Sanders supporters do not take OUR opinion seriously or assume that other blacks should support Hillary Clinton because we do. In fact, whenever we express anything beyond the purest admiration for Bernie Sanders, many Sanders supporters tell us we don't know what we're talking about.

All black folk do not think alike. Nina Turner supports Sanders and that's great. But that does not mean that all other black people should, any more than the fact that lots of white people support Hillary Clinton means that all white people should line up behind her.