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In reply to the discussion: On Twitter, Bernie Sanders’s supporters are becoming one of his biggest problems [View all]MADem
(135,425 posts)56. Nasty, nasty, nasty responses.....that poor guy got inundated!
But he NAILS it: https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/09/23/on-twitter-bernie-sanderss-supporters-are-becoming-one-of-his-biggest-problems/
Marching with King is not a coronation to the black vote; nor was his endorsement of Jesse Jacksons presidential campaign. Many people reasonably question whether Sanderss message of fixing economic inequality will benefit African Americans. The revolting tone of the backlash to critiques of Sanderss record on racial issues is the digital manifestation of a historical divide between black Americans and white progressives. From the labor movement of the post-industrial era to the feminist movement of the 1960s, people of color long have been sidelined and patronized when they try to exercise their voices in progressives spaces that claim to welcome them.
More recently, this lingering racial divide appeared in New York Citys Occupy Wall Street Movement, which I covered for TheGrio in 2011. Each evening in Zuccotti Park, young men and women took to the mic, lamenting the greed and excess of the 1 percent at the expense of the 99 percent. Though the movement was leaderless, the voices most often heard were those of white men and women. Dozens of nonwhite organizers grew so tired of being shut out of strategy meetings that they formed a People of Color Working Group to assert their presence and express their grievances of economic racism.
Occupy focused on class struggle, while economic racism the systemic ways in which racism limits economic opportunity for people of color was barely acknowledged or outright ignored. Across the country, people of color were present in Occupy, but a study of the movements racial representation found that African Americans made up just 1.6 percent of its participants.
Sanderss message, like that of Occupy, generally deals with economic inequality. While he has spoken about how economic inequality affects communities of color, thats not the same as articulating the words economic racism and addressing the friction between black and white progressives.
More recently, this lingering racial divide appeared in New York Citys Occupy Wall Street Movement, which I covered for TheGrio in 2011. Each evening in Zuccotti Park, young men and women took to the mic, lamenting the greed and excess of the 1 percent at the expense of the 99 percent. Though the movement was leaderless, the voices most often heard were those of white men and women. Dozens of nonwhite organizers grew so tired of being shut out of strategy meetings that they formed a People of Color Working Group to assert their presence and express their grievances of economic racism.
Occupy focused on class struggle, while economic racism the systemic ways in which racism limits economic opportunity for people of color was barely acknowledged or outright ignored. Across the country, people of color were present in Occupy, but a study of the movements racial representation found that African Americans made up just 1.6 percent of its participants.
Sanderss message, like that of Occupy, generally deals with economic inequality. While he has spoken about how economic inequality affects communities of color, thats not the same as articulating the words economic racism and addressing the friction between black and white progressives.
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On Twitter, Bernie Sanders’s supporters are becoming one of his biggest problems [View all]
leftofcool
Sep 2015
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if you really wanna stay awake nights, the rightwing attack here at DU And elsewhere
randys1
Sep 2015
#2
They hate me too but when they pass me in the grocery store they cant tell I am a liberal.
onpatrol98
Sep 2015
#97
BS has been as hateful to PBO as many in the GOP, which is why I can/will NEVER support him.
Tarheel_Dem
Sep 2015
#7
eh...but is primary-ing a sitting President who chooses to run for re-election
Chitown Kev
Sep 2015
#13
The only time the primary challenger was successful, the challenger won the general election
jfern
Sep 2015
#50
Yes it is, it's political suicide and the wrong thing for Sanders to say. My issue with Sanders is..
uponit7771
Sep 2015
#70
And the hilarious efforts to whistle past the graveyard continue. And continue. And continue
Number23
Sep 2015
#20
Yet it always seems to be they who accuse others of being in an "echo chamber." nt
betsuni
Sep 2015
#62
Yep. That appears to be the latest meme. The same crowd that posted love letters to Ann Coulter
Number23
Sep 2015
#135
Well, then Bernie and his supporters shouldn't get their panties in a knot....
Walk away
Sep 2015
#32
I have alluded to this before. This is not the first time black posters here have had to watch our
Number23
Sep 2015
#31
I know. It's #BLM's fault for making black folks think that we actually fucking MATTER
Number23
Sep 2015
#23
The whole point is that nameless, faceless and mostly uneducated people on the Internet are
Number23
Sep 2015
#45
Heh. Actually I should have said "black people don't owe Sanders or any other candidate anything
Number23
Sep 2015
#47
And accusing him of only caring about "rich" black people. They couldn't high five the poster
Number23
Sep 2015
#131
"But at a time when he’s trying to build a relationship with black voters, his supporters can have
Cha
Sep 2015
#91