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In reply to the discussion: New to DU and new here. Also a question about optics [View all]bravenak
(34,648 posts)I can see why you thought what you thought.
Bernie is not doing well with blacks because it takes YEARS to build a large coalition of blacks. Tell your grassroots friends to look up how long it took MLK to get enough people in his movement to do a march that large on Washington. Once they know, ask them why they think Bernie deserves tgat coalition. When they inevtable tell you 'he marched with Dr. King!' Tell them take the number of blacks alive then, then to subtract the number of blacks who have since died or forgot or stopped caring about the sixties, then subtract the number who are a part of the Obama coalition, and they will see that he has just the right number of blacks.
If black folks continue to get spammed or bothered with Cornel West videos and cries of race card by his grassroots, he will never get one more voter.