2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Third Way Progressives, Screwing the Plebs [View all]bravenak
(34,648 posts)I can blame the candidate for the environment in their grassroots.
Look at the tea party!! Some of them were not racist!! Many were not racist!! But if we found one sign with an Obama witch doctor poster we labeled them as RACIST!! Because they let those folks run wild and created an environment that felt racist. Should I have ignored the racist supporters of the tea party and just cared about the candidates? No! And I won't give Bernie that consideration.
After all, he voted for the crime bill that incarcerated millions of BLACKS!! How can I ever trust him again after he threw us under the bus?? It's hard to get over somebody trading you off and selling you and your people, who were ALREADY OPPRESSED to the Prison Industrial Complex!!!!!!
My feelings for Sanders are directly related to his and his supporters third way stance on social and economic justice and the number of race baiters and race naggers and SS victims I and my friends have been called. The bombardment of aa with negative posts, the harassment of Goldie Taylor, the Angry Black Lady, Elon James White, Rep John Lewis, and thousands of black americans on the internet.
I think instead of people worrying about what I post and where, they should start weeding the imposters and bad actors out of their own ranks, and things will improve. But when we have a poster yesterday calling me a shit eater (self described sanders fan, none of his other fans said anything nor do they usually check their own members since they are so busy checking us and 'correcting' people on sanders record), I do not see tolerance ever coming from bernie sander's grassroots towards full social justice or embracing black americans and their ideas instead of paternalistically deciding they know what black people need, cause they have a black friend or kid or husband so they fully get the black experience better than we do.