As a white guy, I'd like to tell black people why they should support Bernie San

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Onlooker (4,684 posts)

As a white guy, I'd like to tell black people why they should support Bernie Sanders


This thread was prompted by one that framed Hillary's victory in the south as a victory for the Confederacy, and is intended to draw attention to the some of the micro-aggressions that DU let's stand. All my points are based on actual threads.

I am white, but have been reading posts by Bernie supporters for weeks. Here are some of the reasons why black people should support Bernie for president that I learned here at DU:

(1) Bernie engages actively in the Civil Rights struggle every 50 years (there's photographic proof), and this happens to be one of those cycles.
(2) If you support Hillary, you will appear ignorant to many of Bernie's young white supporters.
(3) If you support Hillary, it means you support the Confederacy.
(4) Hillary is actually single-handedly responsible for the high incarceration rates of blacks.
(5) Hillary's husband fooled blacks for 8 years making them think he was supportive of their rights.
(6) Hillary has been actively courting the black vote while Sanders has not, which shows that Hillary is pandering.
(7) Sanders would have done more for blacks if his state was more than 1% black.
(8) Black people don't have access to the information that white people have regarding the true Hillary.
(9) Hillary only worked for and embraces Obama because she knows that you will vote for whoever likes Obama best.
(10) Millennials are more diverse and accepting of different people, so there's no need for blacks to identify as black anymore; just vote as if you were a northern white Democrat.

There are many reasons to support Bernie and many threads present those reasons convincingly, but there are way too many threads that DU lets stand that disparage minorities who support Hillary. It's embarrassing that DU is not more sensitive.

Racist!!!!!! 

http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511391631

[Chris_]

As a white guy, I'd like to tell black people why they should support Bernie Sanders

I'd like to see you try.  Outside of the lily-white enclave of Democrat Underground, you'd probably get your ass kicked.

[FlaGator]

Bernie engages actively in the Civil Rights struggle every 50 years (there's photographic proof), and this happens to be one of those cycles.

I guess doing it once every 50 years is better than Clinton who has never done more than pay lip service to the african american people.

[Carl]

Millennials are more diverse and accepting of different people, so there's no need for blacks to identify as black anymore; just vote as if you were a northern white Democrat.

This says it all really and why identity politics is destructive.

[Skul]

I guess doing it once every 50 years is better than Clinton who has never done more than pay lip service to the african american people.

Whaaaat!! Monica! Paging Monica to the "head" of the line. 


Ya, Ya, I'll go to my room now.

[zeitgeist]

Blacks will not be bamboozled yet again by an old white Jewish guy from Hymietown.  No matter how much Barney's bullies compare his struggle to that of blacks, they will not be bamboozled.  Lost half you family in the Holocaust?  Sad but not the same.  Jews were slaves in Egypt?  Not the same.  Not let into the best clubs or restaurants?  Nope, not the same.  Does it have to make sense that Jews have long supported black rights.  Not really, they were the Shylock's,slum lords, peddlers, immigrants, who were often the only folk to do business of any type in Harlem or any other inner city.

They would rather vote for an equally elderly white woman in failing health who is married to the first black president.  Yeah baby, that's the ticket.  Hillary, the blond white woman of every black man's dreams.   

[Big Dog]

They would rather vote for an equally elderly white woman in failing health who is married to the first black president.  Yeah baby, that's the ticket.  Hillary, the blond white woman of every black man's dreams.   

Over-The-Hillary's campaign strategy: continuous loop of this song on all stations, followed by "I'm Hillary Clinton, and I approve this message."

[youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=l32vqiRTGew[/youtube]

[IndiCon15]

Blacks will not be bamboozled yet again by an old white Jewish guy from Hymietown. 

Dooooon't let me dooooown......hymietown!

[Rebel]

Do those idiots realize he's being sarcastic?

[RobJohnson]

Over-The-Hillary's campaign strategy: continuous loop of this song on all stations, followed by "I'm Hillary Clinton, and I approve this message."

[youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=l32vqiRTGew[/youtube]

Now that song is stuck in my head.