Bernie just equated working voters with white voters, again.

[gollygee]

17. Not very many working people are in unions anymore

And unions have a pretty bad history with racism.

I think there is great potential for unions but they haven't been perfect as practiced in our country. But I am the daughter of union members and I do think that unions are one way to protect workers. Unfortunately, in the US, they have often been a way to protect specifically white workers, and sometimes to protect them from competition from people of color.

This is the problem with just working on economics without specifically addressing racism at the same time. There is racism in every layer of every system in the US. Money doesn't trickle through those layers evenly because of the racism in the layers. So we need to protect and strengthen unions IMO, but we also need to do some kind of work to make sure that union membership is equally available to people of color, that people of color don't face discrimination within their unions, and that unions work just as hard for people of color.