"Resolving the Bernie/Hillary Differences" by Tom Hayden.
Thought you might like to hear what a real counterculture icon - one who, within the system, actually accomplished a bit of real social justice - has to say on this matter:
It almost certainly won't work for the Sanders campaign to claim that he's the "best' candidate for people of color or feminists. He'll have to do what Obama did in 2008 when black voters turned away from Hillary when Obama did so well in white Iowa on his opposition to Iraq. How could Bernie switch black and brown voters away from Hillary by showing he can win the argument over Wall Street? Other than her suffering a meltdown over a scandal or gaffe, it doesn't seem plausible.
This is the classic dilemma of the Left dating back one hundred years -- class analysis against a race and gender analysis. Echoes already are showing up in Vermont where Bernie sympathies with white gun owners while Hillary, massacre victims and black people are seething against the NRA.
Or take South Carolina, the citadel of failed populism, where the black primary electorate might be fifty-five percent and white progressives are limited to university towns. With their right to vote on the line, will many blacks vote for Bernie? Will Rep. Jim Clyburn, the former leader of the Orangeburg State student movement and now the third-ranking Democrat in the House, jump to Bernie? Impossible.
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The economic vein that Sanders has tapped into has definitely been huge and Hillary would be an imbecile to not see that and try to tap into it as well. Time will tell if voters consider her authentic on this issue.
I'm depressed enough.
Stay strong, Susan.
The smarter ones anyway. 
Saw your posts in that weird "The DLC was all about ushering in white voters" thread. Would love to hear more about this! What do you think about starting an OP in this forum on it??
I can only imagine...
I know his supporters have high hopes for this state. I know they are mad about everything in the dominant culture.
But they don't realize - black folks - well many . . . Including myself are seething over the church shooting. That hit home in SC.
If we thank Sanders for bringing the oligarch banksters to the table -
We have to thank O'Malley for bringing common sense solutions for the gun owner and seller to the table.
Now, those black folks in SC know they are living in black rain. They know that rising tide will leave them behind as it ALWAYS HAS.
So what do they have?
They have a demand to stop shooting up their churches. A demand that white people in SC bring their asses into this century. They also are a bit more conservative and understand incremental change. They've had smoke blown up their asses since 1964.
Racist violent aggression towards blacks must stop. We've had enough.
And Sanders focus on economic justice to people who have never been given a fair shake - the grandchildren of former sharecroppers - isn't going to resonate. They've had too much race based violence, pain, and daily indignity inflicted on them by their poor white neighbors on the other side of town to now "just trust that they are in it for them too."
The white voters in the Democratic Party are simply not in SC at the rate black voters are. Clinton's tough on crime background and rising to O'Malley's gun challenge will earn her their votes.
Conversely - I will be shocked if she wins NH.
Now - Presidential Candidate Obama - this is why I thought you were full of shit with that nonsense about no red or blue America and no white or black America. I voted for you a second time with a smirk because "I told you do." Can't wait for you to walk that back in your memoir! 
