As for Poc, it amazes me (especially the way she brought racism into the'08 primary), how they can forget such things. No group is monolithic and I don't belong to any group being multi-racial, but some likely are unaware of the racism (dog whistles are meant for dogs only to hear, maybe only the intended as Hillary would say "workers, hard working white workers". heard the racial attacks for what they were.
Others, maybe simply like many hard working impoverished people (off all races) are low information voters just too damn busy working two to three jobs to survive to follow and realize what is/was going on in the political world, the tough on crime targeted towards Poc for instance (at the time, the white people using drugs as a substitute for alcohol to get high preferred powder cocaine, while in black neighborhoods crack was the available recreational drug equivalent, how many low information voters know the Clinton's pushed for sentencing that was 100 times harsher on penalties only on crack, intentionally targeting black people with the disparity of lengths of convictions.
the individuals too busy working to survive likely weren't following how welfare reform under Clinton was following the code words that targeted PoC as "welfare queens that were lazy and scamming hard working whites in the eyes and out of the mouths of Gingrich and Clinton.
In the case of other individuals perhaps they simply will forgive anything a Woman does if it means defeating a man in anything, including a presidential election.
Also one must take into account the deliberate and oft repeated big lies that Clinton operatives from David Brock all the way down to paid internet trollers, I have heard specific talking points brought up by trained to believe individuals that the Clinton's have always been there for the black community and Sanders represents the white male racist stereotype, when such individuals are asked politely to explain what exactly the Clinton's have done to help Poc, they can never answer, the simple reason could be that such items were never supplied by those selling and constantly repeated the lies, that is not to say that those constantly being misinformed do not believe what they repeat, it simply means that repeated enough, using the same words, most people can be conditioned to believe what is untrue is actually true.
continuing with the no block of voters is monolithic theme, some simply don't care about the racism, or the damage done to the larger black community because they are affluent and believe the Clinton's will keep them that way, not caring about damage to others, there is a very conservative right wing of the party and of course they come in all races and genders. Such conservatives believe above all else, "I got mine, fuck you".
Finally there are those that are politicians not only beholding to a system of money distribution that the Clinton's have a great deal of control over, but who also worry about political payback by a vengeful Clinton, they are known to keep track of "enemies" and like to do things to pay back those that cross them in any way, a tactic they use so that fear of not helping or supporting them will have consequences.
There are likely also those (I think this the smallest group) that are self loathing uncle Ruckess types.
Think of Poc as individuals with minds of their own, each with their own reasons and reasoning if you want to try to make sense of this apparent contradiction between support earned and support given by Poc.
There is a reason that there is a change of attitude towards the Clinton's held by many younger Poc, they are not low information and less susceptible to the big lies and talking points because they are active online and not so easily duped as a 60 year old that didn't pay attention in the nineties because they were too busy surviving to know where the policies were coming from, they only knew that white privilege existed and had been told that Clinton's were their friends and allies, these same people were still too busy or not hearing the dog whistles meant for white ears to notice such things in '08, remember, at first they supported Clinton over Obama, a real Poc, until they heard his words and believed in him.
If only the programmed and misled low information white people would wake up, the Republicans would be toast and the racial bombs that Trump throws out would fall on deaf ears.
Whites suffer the same problem as blacks do, just they follow different people that are against them, instead of the Clinton's it is often a Republican or a Trump fucking them over while they cheer them on and give them their support while putting fingers in ears to the truth
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