REBOOT: Bernie DID need to readjust and improve his message. So do we Bernie supporters.

[madfloridian]

6. It takes two sides to stop being defensive, it takes 2 sides to start understanding.

I took a month off from DU recently and I will again if needed to keep my mouth shut.

I have never misused my skin color to be deserved to be said to be using "white privilege". I am not and never have been a "white supremacist". Ugly term that calls to mind Nazi Germany.

I think Bernie had just started his campaign, perhaps a little overwhelmed with the massive nature of the crowds, having to adjust everything so quickly. He is hit twice in a row by people screaming at him and grabbing him onstage....when he probably was at that time unaware of what was happening.

Fair is fair, and it is going to take both sides to come together...not just one side. I have done nothing as a Bernie supporter for which to apologize...so I won't.

Words count, they hurt no matter which side uses them.

If I need to leave for another month or so, I will do so rather than say hurtful things like were said to me over and over.

I went through some hard times like both sides did during Florida's years of school integration.

We learned to work together then and did so throughout my many years of teaching.

We can do that here, but it is never just one side that is always right....it takes both sides.

We were told that Bernie's past deeds through his life didn't matter because he was not using the exactly correct words...he probably at that time wasn't sure what they were. Of course his past actions and votes matter, his good intentions through the years matter.

And I want to say I was totally disgusted to find that this primary campaign was being used to paint Bernie Sanders as a racist. What a shameful thing to do.