2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Kos: A Black Man's take on NN/BLM dustup: "Black Folks No on Bernie? Really?" [View all]staggerleem
(469 posts)When anyone who currently holds a political office starts a campaign for a higher office, they'll generally start with the staff that they already have (that may sound a bit Rumsfeld-y, but it's the truth.) Hiring new staff takes MONEY, and would you care to guess who is running the LEAST well-funded campaign in this election, because he won't accept PAC money? Bernie's staff WILL diversify, but it will take time.
Let me ask you this, 1SBM - who among the candidates running in this election were members of both SNCC and CORE? Who marched with Dr. King? Who was arrested as a subversive for putting up equal rights posters while in college? Who came out of the University of Chicago without drinking the Freedman Free-Trade Kool Aid?
Speaking as one who grew up in the environment of white privilege, it's hard for me to figure out whether this nation's race war is a subset of its class war, or vice-versa. But I do know that an advance on EITHER front usually forwards BOTH agendas. Given that, is little color-blindness that big of a sin?
And, speaking of "more diverse regions", shall we discuss the diversity of the first 2 Caucus/Primary states? Nah, didn't think so ...