Time: How Ted Cruz, Bernie Sanders and Other Men Play the Gender Card

[Ken Burch]

92. This is more about you having a grudge with Dr. West and Bigga.

Does Bernie have to ditch them before you'll stop with this?

Was every AA person obligated to never say anything publicly critical of Obama?

What good would that have done?

Dr. West was right that Obama, while well-meaning, gave up on progressive change far too easily...and that there was no excuse for the Obama movement being told to go away once the election was over. If he had encouraged them to mobilize, they could have built pressure for things like the public option and a tougher policy towards the banks. And keeping the Obama movement continually mobilized rather than ordering it to essentially disband would have brought a lot more people to the polls in 2010.

Pointing out that HRC is weak on racial justice issues does not equal saying "she sucks". There is no disrespect in critique on the issues.

And we have addressed the issues AA people cared about.

Bernie speaks about institutional racism MORE than HRC.

He has fought for economic justice as much because it disproportionately affects POC as anything else.

And he never dismissed BLM like the conservative candidate you defend did in that meeting. Bernie fully backs everything BLM wants and even though he didn't say so in the stump speech for the first couple of months, his whole record has effectively been in support of everything BLM supports from the get-go. If he wasn't passionately anti-racism, he wouldn't have endorsed Jesse Jackson.
He wouldn't have been a committed opponent of apartheid.

Bernie is now saying everything you want said, and with greater passion than HRC.

He went to Baltimore to stand with police violence victims, and no other candidate did.




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