CeLLaR-DooR;8798919 said:
Swiffness!;8798891 said:
deadeye;8798868 said:
No it says something about a politician who didn't care too much about black folk until he needed them to be President.
Black posters over at Daily Kos BEEN pointing this out...........
In a 12/1/15 Black Kos commentary, I concluded:
"While policies, platforms and legislative votes are historically important (prerequisites, in fact) to black voters, the popular support of Roosevelts (or at least Eleanor) and the Clintons (for all of their faults and policy shade) in black communities illuminate a indispensable maxim for attaining the black vote: It is much less important for us (black people) to get to know you (the candidate) than for you to get to know us."
That statement was nothing more and nothing less than what many black Kossacks (even those that support Bernie Sanders) had been saying for months.
It appears that the last time that Bernie Sanders had much (if any) contact with black communities would be in the 1960’s.
That has nothing to do with endorsing Jesse Jackson in Vermont 1984 and 1988.
That does not have much to do with whatever votes he may have made as a Congressman supporting my community.
It is ludicrous for Bernie Sanders to expect that he would be able to get the levels of support that will apparently need after being physically absent from out communities for 50 years only to come back for a vote.
I don’t understand why this is so hard for Bernie Sanders supporters to understand
Black folks are going to smell that from a mile away.
Let me add a note for some of the Clinton supporters here: I would not go around spiking the football as some of you have been doing the past couple of days. You don’t want to do that to yourself because this black man, this black voter (early voting in Illinois begins on Monday) really ain’t feeling Hillary Clinton at all.
http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/2/27/1492354/-I-hate-to-say-that-I-told-you-so
like how is that not real talk, Sanders is cool but this came back to haunt him
I don't understand this argument. You're not votin' for him, and happy that others aren't, because you feel he's usin' blacks?
But his policies and alla that will improve so many black lives.
I would vote for him over Clinton and I'm glad he made this a real race. I'm just tired of this ridiculous "Bernie's a Angel and Hillary's the Devil" bullshit. And the idea that Sanders is ever seriously getting the votes for ANY of the big things he's proposing frankly insults my intelligence. I take his "We Need a Political Revolution" line to mean "I'm so awesome people will vote for me in numbers that will overcome Republican gerrymandered control of the house". I don't know if its worse if he knows this is bullshit...or truly believes it. People gonna turn off the TV, take to the streets to protest Congress, and then Congress will.....vote for Single Payer??? Wha?! FOH lol. You ask him or his Stans what happens if that brilliant idealistic plan don't pan out and they act like they didn't hear your question n shit lol. Sometimes I hear the argument of "well even if you don't get it the point is to reach for the stars blah blah" etc but you know damn well some of these kids really believing he gonna make their college tuition FREE smfh. If he straight up said "i would get more out of an obstructionist congress than Clinton would because I'd negotiate for the Left harder" i'd be like okay but he doesn't even do that, as if it'd fuck up his stupid REVOLUTION pipe dream if he did.
I don't get these people that act like any politician is gonna straight-up be their Messiah. Mao was dead-on about Politics being War without bloodshed and War being Politics with bloodshed.....its a ugly business and sure as fuck not easy. You can list practically any "great" leader in history and pull up a rap sheet of atrocities to their name. I wasn't disappointed with Obama because I had realistic expectations.