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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Second Democratic Debate Proves Why Sanders Is BETTER Than Clinton [View all]bravenak
(34,648 posts)68. Black people are the real fighters in word and deed. We fight it everyday all day, no vacations.
Everyone else that supports our cause are appreciated but they are NOT more of fighters of racism than our children who fight it daily, in school, and in society. It's almost like more credit is given to whites who fight than the blacks who started the movement, fought for years and generations, live though racial violence, like John Lewis, and can never leave their skin and go off to a nice white place to live for forty years as a white person. All they have to do to get more credit than the people who fought daily for years, at extreme personal risk,is to have a good naacp score and a photo of them marching or signing up voters down south.
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He has no foreign policy and has Peter Principled out of this race with his inept handling in
bravenak
Nov 2015
#1
The candidate is silent. If he wanted to do something, a Sistah Soldjah moment would have been it.
bravenak
Nov 2015
#55
She had to get rid of Ferraro in 08 and distance herself. It barely helped but we remember her
bravenak
Nov 2015
#63
It is his Foreign Policies that drew me to him in the first place. HE has the BEST FP for this
sabrina 1
Nov 2015
#67
Social justice issues and hostility towards black folks from certain groups is why I vote HILLARY.
bravenak
Nov 2015
#16
Bernie is not hostile towards blacks, and he is much better than Hillary on social justice issues.
Martin Eden
Nov 2015
#20
Quite a few who say they support him are very hostile. It reflects back on him when he says NOTHING.
bravenak
Nov 2015
#22
The only thing Hillary is better at in that regard is political calculation
Martin Eden
Nov 2015
#26
They expressed hostility for months. They still call us uninformed voters and express outrage at our
bravenak
Nov 2015
#34
None of which has anything to do with the actual candidates and their policies ...
Martin Eden
Nov 2015
#43
It shows how responsive the candidate is to the concerns of actual black people.
bravenak
Nov 2015
#48
Bernie Sanders is a real fighter for racial justice, in both word and deed.
Martin Eden
Nov 2015
#64
Black people are the real fighters in word and deed. We fight it everyday all day, no vacations.
bravenak
Nov 2015
#68
Everybody decides who is best, in their own way. Each of us has that right.
Martin Eden
Nov 2015
#79
Sanders has voted more times for military action than Hillary, ergo he is more of a hawk than
Thinkingabout
Nov 2015
#24
If Clinton is a hawk for voting for IWR, Sanders has voted more times for military action, then the
Thinkingabout
Nov 2015
#32
Maybe further review of his voting record will reveal other times he has voted for military action.
Thinkingabout
Nov 2015
#42
I'll take his anti-Iraq War vote as evidence of Bernie being very smart and informed on
Todays_Illusion
Nov 2015
#49
I'll take his vote FOR MASS INCARCERATION as an example of his not understanding
bravenak
Nov 2015
#50
I responded to your comment about foreign policy. I'll take a pass on the topic move.
Todays_Illusion
Nov 2015
#51
I know you will. Everyone has nothing to say about it as they tell me he is awesome for black folks.
bravenak
Nov 2015
#59
He displayed a lack of knowledge of foreign affairs, it showed in the debate, since we live in a
Thinkingabout
Nov 2015
#2
25 years voting & paying for foreign policy as Senator and Representative. VERY knowledgeable.
senz
Nov 2015
#6
Maybe because he's actually still doing his job in the Senate, while running for
winter is coming
Nov 2015
#27