Women respond to Gloria Steinem's apology:

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195. First off, I wasn't constructing a comparison

between the civil rights legacies of John Lewis vs. Bernie Sanders. I give Mr. Lewis his props for the good he did on behalf of Black Americans during his times of marching, and the fact that he (and many others) literally put their lives on the lines to fight for rights that they shouldn't have had to fight for. Mr. Lewis' past works, however, aren't enough for me to overlook the fact that now, after having been in Congress for quite a while, he has now only made himself useful to the mainstream narrators of our existence who dutifully call upon people like Mr. Lewis to make a comment on today's battles for civil rights, whether he likes the Black Lives Matter movement or not, etc.

Bernie Sanders wasn't on the front lines of the civil rights movement and he has never claimed to be, but from the views he's expressed consistently from then until now, I feel pretty damn confident that his heart and opinions on the matter have always been in the right place. The same can't be sad of Hillary Clinton, who started as a Republican (supporting a racist one at that) and has expressed anti-Black opinions on various occasions over the years - your comparison should have been between Bernie and Hillary. The Clinton's have always presented themselves as sympathetic to the concerns of Black people, but once in power, they've consistently worked to do harm and to show how conservative they could be. The Clintons have always used their right hand to shake Black America's, but they've always kept a sharp knife in their left hand to use as soon as we turned around. Lewis endorsing Hillary, in plain view of this fact, shows that he and his endorsement are not relevant.

I'm not sure why you chose to attack me personally, that you assume I'm suffering from a "lack of knowledge" (trust me, I'm not) and that any confidence I display is "bizarre", but I assure you that I've done my homework and I don't post on this site holding the belief that any potential readers are too ignorant to understand what I'm saying.