on the false accusations that Bernie was indifferent to the importance of fighting against racism and sexism(even after Super Tuesday, when they no longer had any good reason to keep those particular smears going...and even though no one on the Left would ever be indifferent about social injustice).
It's not as though the Sanders campaign didn't try to win the votes of women and POC, and we broke even in those demographics among voters 30 and younger.
It is simply a lie to claim that the Sanders campaign ever, for a single moment, treated women or POC's as groups that didn't matter, or ever worked on the assumption that we didn't need those votes.
And it's not as if HRC ever actually offered either group anything better than Bernie did on her policy proposals. Fine, she had "relationships" with the old-line leadership in both communities, but she also spent most of the Eighties and Nineties stabbing the AA community and all but the most timid and corporate sectors of the feminist movement in the back, appeasing racist, sexist, classist backlash again and again(and never once publicly denouncing the right wing for false equating blackness with criminality, parental irresponsibility and welfare fraud). Every group has the right to choose whoever they want and we all accept that.
But If HRC does get elected, she will owe both women AND big-time and the leadership she courted will have its work cut out for it getting her to do anything for POC or for women who aren't upscale and white.
Based on her record, she will have to be forced, through relentless activism, to pay her debts to either constituency and to refrain from throwing either group under the bus when she feels it is in her short-term interest to do so.
We in the Sanders movement will be marching in solidarity with both groups when the inevitable protests occur.
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