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In reply to the discussion: Not Good Enough, Bernie [View all]BrotherIvan
(9,126 posts)This isn't about "worshipping Sanders" it is about two white people, and now now you, trying to claim that somehow you care so much for people of color and trying to paint Bernie Sanders as somehow linked to racist episodes because he gave a speech about economics. In order to prop up your candidate, the OP was willing to tie Sanders to a racist painting and "white Protestantism" (though he is Jewish) and police brutality against a black man in a brutal picture. It is dishonest and disgusting to do this to a person who marched for civil rights, who was arrested in protests, who has a stellar record on voting for it. Far better than Hillary Clinton who ran a racist campaign in 2008.
Here's a question: what have you done for civil rights? What has the OP or the blogger done? If the answer is not much other than verbal or written support, then you have no credibility to make this argument.
White people don't get to co-opt black people's lives for their own aggrandizement. You don't speak for people of color. And if you agree with this method of attack to balance the scales as what you perceive as "baseless" attacks against your idol, then you are stooping just as low as the OP. But I'm not surprised.