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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]Number23
(24,544 posts)If you want to act as though this one or two events that he did FIFTY YEARS AGO is the totality of all things great and small, please do. No one gives the first damn and certainly not the black folks that Sanders has been failing miserably with as per the results of every single primary and caucus held so far. You can keep squatting in the 60s, the rest of us are asking 'what have you done lately?" and the answer is "not much of a damn thing."
So you got two white people running, one of them has the support of DOZENS of black organizations and civil rights icons, ones that were actually beaten, arrested and marched REPEATEDLY not one or two times, not to mention the support of women's groups, Jewish groups, gay rights' groups, etc. etc. etc. You know, the true Democratic base. And to try to counter this -- and believe me, I truly get why people would feel the need to counter this, mainly because it is simply GOT to be beyond mortifying and embarrassing that the "liberaliest liberally liberal" is getting creamed by the more mainstream candidate even among liberal groups -- his supporters keep trying to portray him as some Civil Rights Lion because of one event that happened FIFTY YEARS AGO. And these same folks just for the life of them cannot understand why most folks can barely muster up the energy to care and actually find their efforts either stupid, patronizing or both. It's pretty freaking hilarious.