2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: POC aren't buying the "Bernie's been fighting for you all his life so you should vote for him" claim [View all]Chakab
(1,727 posts)that Sanders is purportedly trying to "fool" black people into voting for him while they clamor for support of a candidate who doesn't give two shits about any constituency but the monied class and has attacked the black community when it suited her for decades.
Nobody should be told who to support, but the fact that the anger in the OP's post is directed at Sanders rather than Clinton and her empty, and clearly calculated and triangulated pandering is truly mind-boggling to me.
It just doesn't make any fucking sense whatsoever.
If you're mad because Sanders stopped fighting specifically for the black community after the 60s and is now trying win black votes, why wouldn't you be at least as mad at the Clintons for doing significant and real harm to black America (and plenty of other communities) with their policy and rhetoric?
Sorry for repeating myself, but I'm seriously at loss to understand this mindset. I also have to point out that this is largely localized to the members of online political forums like DU. In reality, there's been no rebuke of Sanders and his "dishonesty" by black voters. The average black Clinton supporter is simply ill-informed (like most Americans irrespective of race) about who Sanders is and the reality of the Clintons' record.