Bernie Sanders
In reply to the discussion: So I guess we got the meme [View all]Erich Bloodaxe BSN
(14,733 posts)is giving direct candidate access to people who have to live in black America. Get as many viewpoints in on creating the messaging as possible. Listen to them, spend the time to understand them, to understand WHY they care about the things they do, not just use the fact that they do. Black Lives Matter is pretty straightforward. As a country, we're still unable to abandon the past. It might not be legal to buy and sell black people as livestock any more, but our 'legal and justice' systems still act like their purpose is to protect white people from black people, to treat them like runaway or rebellious slaves, and to casually kill them if they dare to disobey police, or simply just because they are walking in the wrong place at the wrong time. To jail or kill them for things that get white people a warning, then pass it off as a 'suicide' or an 'accident'. And a policeman getting even indicted for such murders is incredibly rare, and convictions next to non-existent. Even among civilians, any white person killing a black person is far more likely to walk free than a black person who kills a white.
So get in black advisors, and listen to them. Let THEM craft your message, and have them helping you to work on the policies to put an end to the ability of police to just murder black people and walk away free.