Who says that Bernie can't win the Black vote?

[AZ Progressive]

Besides his support from Killer Mike, Bernie is in favor of a $15 minimum wage, access to college for everyone, is against the War on Drugs, against the prison industrial complex, and the majority of blacks favor socialism.

[Samantha]

1. I certainly don't say that; I say YES HE CAN (eom)

[Fearless]

2. Some wealthy white guy no doubt.

[uponit7771]

3. Is this a joke? Bigga and West hate Obama, have said some of the most vile things about him

... and somehow this will endure PoC to Sanders?

Sanders positions for "us" get crowded out by his persistent marginalization of HRC's leftest bonafides

Regards

[MrMickeysMom]

6. What's this "Bigga" shit?

Just who are you addressing with that title?

[MrMickeysMom]

15. Exactly where is the irony?

You don't seem to understand the nature of irony in that answer, as you don't know me, but use this insulting phrase.

Remove this name calling. Bigga is somehow a token black guy? It sounds like a bullshit pejorative to me.

[Senator Tankerbell]

26. Killer Mike is also known as Mike Bigga or just Bigga

It's just a nickname. The rest of that post was a lie though. He doesn't hate Obama and neither does Cornel West.

[MrMickeysMom]

29. Okay, I'll agree with all of that...

I still think Bigga is a racial slur, so I"m not sure who is making him known as that, unless they like they way it rhymes.

I think that was the intent, but can't prove it here.

[Senator Tankerbell]

30. He calls himself that.

His wife Shana goes by "Shay Bigga".

[lunamagica]

35. Oh, this is too funny!!!

They go on and on about Killer Mike like he is this super influential celebrity, and they don't even know his name!

[Ken Burch]

11. HRC forever lost any "leftest bonafides" when she helped found the DLC.

You don't get to claim to be "left" after helping seize control of the party in the name of a group that argued that POC, labor, activists and the poor should have no say in what the party stands for.

[uponit7771]

13. See, 50 years of proffering left positions get boiled down to relatively few mistakes....

... but only for Hillary, Sanders on the other hand passes the purity test he holds others to.... NOT

[kath]

18. Say WHAT????

[kath]

20. Thanks, Ken! People need to learn/be reminded exactly why the DLC was founded, and by whom.

[noiretextatique]

14. Well...2 black people

Clearly are "the black vote".

[AtomicKitten]

4. It's propaganda. An election tactic.

[brooklynite]

5. I think the point is that, so far he isn't...

...DESPITE "Killer Mike", there's no sign he's cutting into Clinton's edge with African Americans.

[AZ Progressive]

9. We'll see about that...

[uponit7771]

12. IA results tells us about that... 3 months and he loses PoC in IA by 25%... that not good

[JudyM]

17. Hey, who you calling asshole?! Take that someplace else.

[Glamrock]

34. Hey man

I for one am getting pretty tired of being lumped in with the obnoxious just because I support Bernie. You are being obnoxious and making us all look bad. Take it down a notch. I get/appreciate your passion, but really, take it down man.

[LexVegas]

7. African Americans will. It will start in SC. nt

[asuhornets]

8. Everybody says that....n/t

And it's true.

[gyroscope]

22. Everybody said that about Obama too.

Obama was the fringe candidate in 2008

no name recognition, funny muslim sounding name, could never win the black vote...oh, wait

[asuhornets]

31. Untrue...n/t

[geek tragedy]

19. He can. But will he? Dunno. nt

[Nedsdag]

21. I'm black and Bernie has my vote.

n/t

[artislife]

32. I am Latina and he has mine as well.

The h camp seems to like us minorities when we vote for their candidate. They don't seem to want to help our communities, keep people here or care about the food supply coming into our communities. They just like us to show up and vote for their candidates.


Well, my issues are larger than just my ethnicity. I care about children in public schools even though I don't have any. I care about fracking in Oklahoma even though I live in Washington state. I care about police brutalization and murder of minorities, okay that one does affect my people as well as other people. I care that kids are saddled into debt for college making it near impossible for them to own a home or get ahead because they have become indentured to the Financial Overlords.

I give a sh*t about this planet, this country and ALL the people who are behind the 8 ball without real representation for change.


But I will say, I care that my grandmother and I waiting at the airport for my luggage was called "Spicks". I care that she left school after the 8th grade and it didn't matter to the greater community that she would be under educated. I hate that my darker skinned brother was stopped for a "traffic violation" outside of Midland, Texas and spent a week without being charged and no phone call to a lawyer. At least he came out breathing.

I have little faith that h sees us as anything else as a photo op or a group of voters to count on instead of really truly effecting change for.

[Uncle Joe]

23. The corporate media conglomerates will remind people of that virtually every time they speak

of Bernie, they wish to create a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Bernie can't win African Americans or Latinos so if you happen to be one don't waste your vote on him, that's the subliminal message.

Thanks for the thread, AZ Progressive.

[amborin]

25. this, exactly

[amborin]

24. it's just a meme that they will keep repeating until it sinks in and influences the vote; we need a

counter-meme

[Art_from_Ark]

27. And he's got a 100% rating from the NAACP

http://action.naacp.org/page/-/washington%20bureau/113Congress/VERMONT2.pdf

[artislife]

33. Thanks for posting this link!!

We have had some good endorsements this day.

[madokie]

36. People who

will be voting for Hillary is who