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In reply to the discussion: Why did Sanders wait until we have a black president to cast blame and start his "revolution"? [View all]zalinda
(5,621 posts)Before that he was a Congressman from Vermont and before that a mayor from a city in Vermont. Vermont is mainly white, not by choice, it just happened like that. What I'm saying is that he had a job to do, representing Vermont. He did speak out on things related to people of color, but to actively spend some of his time to create a coalition would have been short changing the people of Vermont. As a representative of his state he has always done his job, even now. He is still participating in Senate business even while running for President. When he becomes President, he will fight for equality for all people and make sure people of color and women are not left out.
Obama ran a campaign on Hope and Change, it didn't happen, not for us lesser people. When Hillary started her 'new' campaign, he noticed that there wasn't a huge field of Democrats to choose from. He asked some people if he should run, and then started a campaign to give voice to us lesser people. No one thought that he would rise this high and go this far. No one thought that Bernie's message would resonate, that's because we have been invisible to the Democratic Party. The dems thought that we were a pesky minority who had no where else to go. Bernie has given us voice.
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