Bernie's crowd in Portland, ME ...

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253. The OP is snarky as hell...

It sure isn't nuanced, it sure isn't saying "look, I'm black, and I'm uncomfortable with Bernie's base being very white", maybe because that's too honest?

No, it's saying Bernie doesn't care about black people because of the very white crowds he is drawing in very white places. Which seems to be terrible reasoning based on some pretty ugly underlying assumptions.

It seems to ignore quite a lot, such as our stupid primary system, that places huge importance on two overwhelmingly white states right off the bat, or Sanders being a virtual unknown outside of the very white upper New England and progressive left, working in an election system that gives every advantage to political dynasties and insiders and makes it really hard to break out as a virtual unknown.

If someone has trepidation at Bernie's white base, it seems a rather ignorant fear, at best, and simple bigotry at worst. Not something I want to indulge a person in. Obama's crowds were overwhelmingly white as well in all the same places, but the same trepidation wasn't had. It shows that the fear being shown here is a pretty ugly one.

There is nothing that can be done about Bernie's white base except for him to try and expand it, and given our election system, he may never do it, and not because he doesn't care about blacks, but because he's not a mainstream candidate. The progressive left is very white, and not for any reason Bernie can control. If he can't expand beyond the progressive left, his base will remain very white. And in our election system, the odds are against him.