2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Third Way Progressives, Screwing the Plebs [View all]bravenak
(34,648 posts)Your idea of fighting for me is not my idea. I do not see it that way. I did not see him sticking out his neck in a controversial way at anytime during my life, my mom was born in 61 so she was a kid when he marched. Living memory is important to living humans.
People get more worked up over me than I do about them as evidenced by the letters of harassment sent to my home by a self described fan of Bernie's. That was not appreciated. At all. They also claimed to be a duer and to outnumber me. This is the toxicity I am worried about. Somebody felt that it was perfectly fine to do that because of the environment of racial insensitivity here. That envoronment is not a only here. I was recently yelled at at a meeting on campus of college democrats for not appreciating all bernie has done for me and told he has done more for me than any black person alive. That was not online. He had to be asked to leave and he was big and scary and told me white folks don't have to support you (bad word) anyway. That is a right wing attitude.
If people are getting so worked up over Bernie, that they treat black folks thus... I will do anything in my tiny broke ass black welfare power to stop him from being the leader. I think to have this happening in a way where so many black folks complian about nearly identical racist or nasty of just ugly incidents, then Bernie has to put up or shut up. If he for an end to racism, not paying lip service, he needs to clean up the incidents and possible jerks or racially insensitive folks in his own ranks. If he cannot make the environment comfortable for blacks in his own grass roots, he can do NOTHING with this nation on race.