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Maybe an OP from my list of ignored rightwingers. I do not see anything such as this OP mentions.
Response to uponit7771 (Reply #6)
Response to Empowerer (Reply #19)
It's not like any of us is Hubert Humphrey helping LBJ jerk the Mississippi Freedom Democrats around during the '64 Democratic Convention(refusing to offer them any more than a trivial two seats).
And HRC is a white liberal(or at least she's pretending to be liberal THIS week). So why trust her more than him? Especially since she spent a large part of her career pushing the Democratic Party to leave POC out in the cold and to leave collective slurs against POC(such as the right-wing equation of blackness with criminality, out of wedlock births, and welfare fraud)unchallenged...or worse, to actually embrace policies that are BASED on those slurs?
And, with respect(and I mean "with respect"
you've simply got Bernie wrong on race. He has never said that fighting racism had to take a backseat to fighting against economic injustice. What he said was that, to truly defeat racism and other forms of bigotry, we need to defeat economic injustice...that we can win some victories against bigotry before economic injustice is defeated, that we need to keep fighting racism, homophobia, transphobia, sexism, ethnic/religious hatred, that we will keep fighting it, but that we can't ultimately end any of those things without ending economic insecurity, want, and the fear of want, because those who benefit from those three things will always keep hatred alive in order to defend themselves.
This is the awareness that Dr. King worked from at the end of his own days, that to end racism, to liberate POC, we need to liberate the human race from greed(and from war).
Do you think MLK put race on the back-burner when he said that?
Racism matters to Bernie, and to his supporters, as much as any other issue.
We are anti-racists, we join you in whatever way we can in that fight. And we understand that fighting racism is the number-one thing with you. None of us(and especially the growing numbers of POC who now back Bernie)would ever tell you to back off on that.
I'd like to see a dialogue here about how trust can be established on this.
These are two groups(POC and Bernie supporters, growing numbers of whom are POC) who are essentially united on the issues. We agree with each other probably 99.5% of the time.
We are natural allies in the fight for a just world.
They probably expect Ben Carson to shine their hosts' shoes before he gets interviewed.
