Bernie Sanders and Martin O'Malley Failed Their #BlackLivesMatter Test

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39. Having been fooled before don't let your fear

and inability to actually listen to what he has said, to what he has proposed, and to what he has and is doing cause you to be foolish and choose the candidate that will most certainly fool you again.

After all, the Clintons and other New Dems have a long history of campaign lies & rhetoric followed up by broken promises and disastrous governance.

His rally in Phoenix was hugely diverse, and yet that is ignored. That's your first mistake assuming it is just mostly white aspiring middle-class supporters that are attending these.

Your second mistake is divorcing Wall Street, the TPP, from the minimum wage from immigration, equal education, women's equity, etc. Sanders does not and has not separated those out like you are doing. He does not equate economic and social justice BUT he does say that we can and must work on both at the same time. We can not legislate racism, bigotry, or sexism away. But we can change how we police our cities. We can reduce black youth unemployment and incarceration levels. We can pass a Federal non-discrimination bill that will protect LGBT workers. We can give our young an affordable if not free education like all other nations strive to do.

He speaks to all of the things you list from full support for the Dream Act (remember Clinton wanted to deport the children!), pay equity for women and men, tuition free education for ALL, family rights (yup big LGBT marriage supporter before it became popular!), and reforming our police departments.

Your third and final mistake is the assumption that lots of Americans don't care about the things you listed. In fact, African Americans considered them in the top 5 for the 2014 election.

http://www.blackenterprise.com/news/top-5-political-fights-2014-america-obama-congress/

Education, job creation, and the minimum wage were 3, 4, and 5 respectively. Sanders has supported all of those and continues to do so.

So sorry to burst your bubble but no, social justice was not in the top five. Immigration reform is as much an economic issues as it is a social issue, and Obamacare is about health care.

It is not an either/or but we the people get it that we can do both together at the same time. We also get that since the 1980's for sure, economic equality and security have been ignored so that a very small percentage of Americans have while the rest either have not or struggle to have the basics at all.