I thought Sanders was bad for black people. Omaha Steve

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I thought Sanders was bad for black people. These women changed my mind.




I thought Sanders was bad for black people. These women changed my mind.



The candidate's economic plan is more important than I realized.

 
By Terrell Jermaine Starr January 29 at 7:13 AM
Terrell Jermaine Starr is a New York City-based freelance journalist who writes about U.S. and Russian politics.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/01/29/i-thought-sanders-was-bad-for-black-people-these-women-changed-my-mind/

Six months ago, I was a Bernie Sanders skeptic. In July, I wrote about how Sanders had bungled his outreach to the black base. Though he spent a lot of time talking about economic inequality, his message seemed aimed at the thousands of white liberals who attended his rallies. A month later, I accused his white online supporters of condescending to black people who weren’t sold on his civil rights record.

I’ve heard these concerns echoed throughout the black community. Just a few days ago, Fordham University political scientist Christina Greer said that, “in the rush to make it all about class, you turn on your blinders to certain things that quite frankly aren’t about class … missing a very large piece of the puzzle, and what makes some black voters nervous, there seems to be a huge gap in his understanding about race.”

But now, I’m beginning to rethink my position. That’s thanks, largely, to Sanders’s black women supporters. Over the last week, I’ve spoken with people like Ohio state Sen. Nina Turner, Trayvon Martin family lawyer Natalie Jackson and several black female Sanders staffers. No one shaped my thinking more than Erica Garner. She’s the daughter of Eric Garner, an unarmed African American who died after being put in a choke hold by an NYPD officer in 2014.

During our conversation, she argued that Sanders’s push for economic equality is just as important for black people as fighting abusive policing. Listening to Garner explain how she feels Sanders will help ease her financial hardships struck a chord. Women make, on average, just 79 cents for every dollar a man makes. Black women earn just 60 cents on the dollar; Latinas make 55 cents on the dollar. For Garner, it doesn’t matter how many cops are thrown behind bars for killing black people if she can’t afford to pay her rent or afford child care for her 6-year-old daughter Alyssa.

FULL story at link.

A plate of mini tacos would change your mind.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511088821

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The big guy's got to watch his step.

Yeah, like he's listening to me.

I suspect my fellow alum Skins is getting tired of his bullying boosterism for Bernie, and the ban hammer's within reach.

The big guy might think, being the big guy, that he's immune because he's "popular," but he forgets what happened to Skippy, the NYC_SKP primitive, and to my good pal Manny, the Manny Goldstein primitive.

I don't think it's necessary to point out that Skippy and Manny were loads, mountains, more popular than the big guy can ever hope to be.