2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Bernie Supporters - Please read my post [View all]bravenak
(34,648 posts)Every speech since netroots (by all the democratic candidates)speak to the issues of police violence and systemic racism.
I do think his S status is a problem and his delivery fails with certain groups who are not ALREADY pretty left on the spectrum or non minorities. I personally am pretty far left, BUT, when I speak to other Black people, they are remarkable very capitalist. Like my very own sister. With Obama leaving, most are feeling axious about the next election. Not excited. Not interested in a revolution, especially if it's an 'anti obama's policies' type of revolution.
You can have social justice without economic justice. Our poor should be just as safe as white poor folks. Our rich should too. We have been played so many times, left out of the New Deal, backburnered, nobody believes these promises of economic justice. It NEVER happens. There is always a way to leave black folks out even if they have to lock us all the fuck up or kill us to keep us out. And they do it. Still doing it. Nobody believes. It would be stupid to not demand social justice first.