Dear Bernie Sanders: Black votes matter

[Bill USA]

https://www.rt.com/usa/340581-brooklyn-clerk-purged-voters/

African Americans in the South can’t get a break when it comes to voting, as history can’t deny.

After all they’ve endured through slavery, Jim Crow and the fight for civil rights, their voices are still treated dismissively by tone-deaf politicians who would ask for their votes.

If you’re thinking Bernie Sanders, you’re partly right.

This month, having lost massively to Hillary Clinton across the Southeast, Sanders commented that the bevy of early Southern primaries “distorts reality.” In other comments soon thereafter, perhaps covering for what was obviously a lapse in political acumen, he clarified that those early states are the most conservative in the country.

Not really. And not really.

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Many took Sanders’s remarks as insinuating that the black vote isn’t all that important. Adding to the insult, actor Tim Robbins, a Sanders surrogate, said that Clinton’s win in South Carolina, where more than half of Democratic voters are African American, was “about as significant” as winning Guam.
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[Agnosticsherbet]

1. Your link is wrong. It goes to a RT article. It should go to Stars and Stripes

http://www.stripes.com/opinion/black-votes-matter-always-have-for-clintons-1.406120

[merrily]

2. Most southern states are not significant to Democratic nominees in general elections.

People can spin and twist and insinuate as much as they like. That is the electoral reality. Neither Robbins nor Sanders are racists. That is also reality. I have had a snootful of this nonsense.

[Baobab]

7. In this election season, black journalists are making really compellng arguments-

If any of you read this, thank you.

[Bohemianwriter]

3. Let's just hope that Hillary...

will come to the conclusion that black lives matters...

Besides, what was written in your OP has got nothing to do with the actual issue. The issue that the south wil non longer sway an election.

I just wonder what goes through people's minds when they come to the realization that they have voted against their own interests all these years.

I also ponder how Hillary will convince the voter base she and her surrogates have done their best to alienate, marginalize and purge to vote for her.

[appalachiablue]

6. Bernie is very aware that Black Lives and Votes matter, convince the Clintons

and their ill informed supporters and voters what they're responsible for, the increase in incarceration, poverty, joblessness, damaged families and communities from 1990s legislation: 1993 NAFTA outsourcing good jobs, 1996 Welfare 'Reform'/Workfare impoverished millions of women and children: harsher provisions in the Crime Bill of 1994 that account for the 2.2 million prison population in the US, the largest in the world.

Bill Clinton rages & blames black protestors for his Crime Bill & Welfare Act but says Hillary was right, Philly Rally April 6.

[Old Codger]

4. Winning the red states

Only matters in the primary, they will all go red in the GE so neither hill or Bernie gain or lose anything in the GE by the results in the red states in the primary...

[shenmue]

5. Huh?

[beerandjesus]

8. Gotta love the sanctimony from the DNC crowd

To the degree they bother running in the South at all, they run as anti-Democrats. Excepting that brief (and very effective) glimmer of hope we got when Howard Dean was chair, the Democratic Party has completely written off the South, especially the Deep South. But when they're looking for a cudgel to hit Bernie with.... well, NOW all of a sudden they care!

[Orsino]

9. Acknowledging that southern red states are unlikely to turn blue this year is not Jim Crowism.

Stupid spin.

By definition, not all votes count the same in our electoral and primary systems. This hit piece is a cowardly attempt to wrap the Clinton campaign in the civil rights mantle--or rather to take it from Sanders.

Nuance: learn it.