So now it's all-out war against BLM for Sanders supporters?

[Ken Burch]

68. I wasn't saying it was "their fault"...I don't use rhetoric like that and you know it.

HRC is in the discussion because, as it happens, she gets most of the AA support at the moment. She's done nothing that I can see to deserve it(she never fought for AA issues as First Lady and has always been a "tough on crime"-why do three or four little speeches about racism since January make up for years of indifference?) but currently gets it. Fine. I accept that. It doesn't prove Bernie's campaign is illegitimate and shouldn't be happening, and it doesn't prove Bernie deservs AA hostility.

What a lot of us have reacted to is that Bernie has been the victim of an orchestrated smear on race(even over the racial composition of the crowd at his campaign kickoff, something that was totally irrelevant and happenstance)...he has never had a single blemish on his record of fighting bigotry, has always opposed police violence and all forms of institutional racism, and never done anything to deserve being singled out for attack and pressure on racial issues.

And we are also reacting to what looks like an undeserved blm vendetta against Bernie...and what looks like a belief on their part that the success of the anti-racist agenda depends somehow on Bernie being driven out of the race-never mind that a Democratic presidential race without Bernie would only be something that rich white men could benefit from.

It's not as if AA interests are ever actually served by the less-progressive candidate beating the more progressive one in the Democratic primary.