2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Bernie Supporters - Please read my post [View all]bravenak
(34,648 posts)I can be rich, black, and still face institutional racism. I can be poor and white and not fce institutional racism. That is the problem with trying yo say they can't go one without the other. Because that is the EXACT reality we live in.
The activist do no care what people think. Smell a rat or don't. Whoever wins them wins their support, so being extra suspicious and ideological doesn't help. I'll go their way. Most will.
Hillary is trying to reach out to them and include them in her campaign. She is wise. She gets them on her side, especially with how they were basically rejected by the Supporters of Sanders and embraced by the supporters of Clinton, and she wins.
She is doing everything in her power to prevent getting heckeled, being PROACTIVE. Listening.
Being defensive in this situation is a losing prospect. And attacking Obama and saying he did nothing is stupid. What did white liberals do to end racism? Nothing. They did absolutely nothing but attack Obama constantly while the right attacked him racially. We noticed. We notice that the biggest Obama haters on the left are the biggest Bernie supporters. It's getting worse BECAUSE Obama is Black. We LOVE him. Attacking him gets you attacked. Blaming this exploding racism on a Black man makes one look stupid AND racist.