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]azurnoir
(45,850 posts)especially in the South the first Black POTUS is about to leave office and I suspect there is great fear of white backlash, and not without cause Donald Trump is living proof of that and simply put the belief is that Hillary stands a better chance of winning than Bernie- they know her- she eats sweet tater pie with Black folks in Detroit what has the media said about Bernie-from the get go it been here's this old white guy from a tiny all white state way up north-says he marched with King but the news paper says he's lying, note I'm talking about the specific demographic that voted last night from what I've read it was mostly older 50 to 60+ not folks you'll find on twitter maybe on Facebook but not other social media the newspaper never retracted Capeharts story the M$M ignored the debunking completely, this sort of thing has been going on all along the way - There's more the older Southern Black democrats are conservative-won't be swayed by Hillary's confrontation with BLM, why I'll venture a guess they themselves aren't big fans of BLM either, the mind set is closer to stop actin' a fool and pull your pants up and the police will most like leave you alone
Now you can say I don't know what I'm talking about cause I'm whit but I've been around older Black church folk my entire adult life starting with my daughters Grandmother and her family -most were pastors for either COGIC or AME churches