Nina Turner Blasts Audience From Black Women's Forum for Booing Senator's MLK Comments

[JHan]

55. Serious question...

Do you ever have a single criticism of Sanders?

I have my criticisms of Politicians I like because every politician has "flaws" to varying degrees.

But it intrigues me that when Sanders makes obvious errors of judgement, there is an incapability of acknowledging it by his staunchest defenders. I get it, loyalty and all that, and people often lionize individuals instead of ideas.

In this case, as ehrnst noted, his approach was tantamount to a "well you know I have black friends" comment. As if him supposedly marching with MLK is an adequate response to what is happening in America TODAY. And there's context to this. I think the women in the audience were hoping they would get better clarification from Sanders, they hoped his message had evolved on this and then he put his foot in it immediately because he became defensive...

You can't expect POC to forget his statements about racist voters who may not be racist because they feel uncomfortable voting for someone who is black. I saw rationalizations of that on DU which shocked me, rationalizations from people calling themselves liberal.

This was his opportunity to clarify himself better and he did not. For those who worship the idea that message is all that matters, and that Bernie is a great messenger, the refusal to see the obvious failure here is intriguing.