2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Sanders was the only White guy who showed up [View all]EffieBlack
(14,249 posts)Since the mid-1960s, Sanders has done little besides saying the right thing and voting for other people's legislation to support POC. No one can point to much that he's done in the last 50 years to fight for civil rights for blacks.
Bernie's supporters keep repeating this "Bernie's been fighting for civil rights" myth ad nauseum, with no evidence to back it up, and when black DUers have asked for details about what he's done, they're alerted and hidden. I guess it's easier to shut down the question than to answer it.
and yes, we've seen that "list" which is mostly statements and votes, but nothing that comes even close to fighting for anything.
It's interesting that we're constantly being told about how fiercely Bernie has supposedly fought for blacks but when the people who would know best whether he actually had - you know, black people - say that he hasn't, we're told that we're uniformed or in the tank for Hillary. If Bernie had been such a crusader for black people, trust me, we would now it and wouldn't need to be lectured about it by a bunch of people who probably can count on one hand the number of black people they know well.