Bernie Sanders
In reply to the discussion: So I guess we got the meme [View all]Erich Bloodaxe BSN
(14,733 posts)Read the excerpted interview in this diary
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/07/19/1403596/-About-the-blacklivesmatter-Protest-at-Netroots-Nation
But it can't just be words that change. He's also going to have to spend something even more precious on this - Time. He's got to take the time to meet on an ongoing basis with BLM and other leaders dealing with racial injustice.
We have to walk and chew gum at the same time. Bernie's message and actions on economic injustice are great, but he's got to be there on racial injustice as well. We had candidates who were trying to emphasize one over the other. Bernie can't just talk about it as a satellite to his message of economic injustice, a tacked on thing. It has to be coequal.
If he can do that, he'll blow Hillary out of the water. Because she can't do the reverse. She can't make the economic injustice message just as important, or she pisses off all of the big money behind her race.