"White People are Not as Important as Bernie Sanders Thinks"

[Squinch]

102. I'm not saying he did dog whistle that he only wanted white voters, and I don't actually think

he wanted to find himself the candidate for the angry white man.

BUT he has only one message. That message is of pursuing economic justice while ignoring social justice and assuming that economic justice would take care of social justice issues. That simply doesn't work for women and people of color. We've heard that song before and it simply isn't good enough to address the issues we need addressed. It addresses the primary needs of white men, but not other groups.

Way before this became a problem for him, people of color were warning him that he had to address their needs for social justice support. He simply ignored that until what should have been an obvious Democratic position became a point of departure for women and people of color from Sanders. And he never did anything after that to get us back.

I don't think he realized what he was doing. I don't think it was intentional. But that in itself is a problem. People were in his face telling him he was losing women and people of color, and he could not adjust to that fact. He could not do anything but repeat his speech, which did not address this issue.

I think he's still confused about why he lost those demographics, even though he was told over and over why it was happening as it was happening.