African American

randys1

(16,286 posts) Tue Feb 16, 2016, 08:33 PM Feb 2016

I am worried about backlash against the AfAm community as a whole if Bernie [View all]

doesnt win the nomination.

I was just reading something here at DU about Bernie still struggling for the AfAm vote, which I wish he wasnt, I wish everybody was voting for him, but then you all know that about me.

But I fear an anger and backlash similar to the alleged Black vote supporting prop HATE in California, etc.

You know, where the Black people were blamed for that law...sigh

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I am worried about backlash against the AfAm community as a whole if Bernie [View all] randys1 Feb 2016 OP

Who is pushing the meme that Bernie has trouble with AA? Who is saying SC is her firewall? thereismore Feb 2016 #1

I am referring to polls, not memes. So instead of addressing the issue, you do this. randys1 Feb 2016 #2

And I am talking about who is pushing this. Certainly not Bernie. nt thereismore Feb 2016 #3

Facts are not "memes". eom 1StrongBlackMan Feb 2016 #15

my response has nothing to do with the primaries. African Americans have been a common target for still_one Feb 2016 #4

BTW, voter ID laws, all of which are unconstitutional, are starting to rear their ugly heads randys1 Feb 2016 #5

You are right Randy, which make the Supreme Court even more critical now still_one Feb 2016 #7

^This!^ Kind of Blue Feb 2016 #8

^^This!^^ Kind of Blue Feb 2016 #9

the backlash has been happening since before this primary JI7 Feb 2016 #6

And ^^^This^^^ Kind of Blue Feb 2016 #10

You fucking nailed it Number23 Feb 2016 #22

!!! Tarheel_Dem Feb 2016 #63

+1, the establishment ... usually doesn't like to cede power uponit7771 Feb 2016 #64

Our whole experience in this country has been one big backlash Alenne Feb 2016 #11

+1. ... I ain't scared! The only thing they can do is ... 1StrongBlackMan Feb 2016 #16

pretty much all black people say they will vote for Sanders if he becomes the nominee JI7 Feb 2016 #20

Absolutely ... Black people have never trusted politicians ... 1StrongBlackMan Feb 2016 #32

This like I posted in my own thread the only people who can help us is us. JRLeft Feb 2016 #44

I kind of disagree; but, end up in the same spot ... 1StrongBlackMan Feb 2016 #46

Sorry, I don't see help coming from other people to help us, all I see is rhetoric. JRLeft Feb 2016 #47

Oh ... I do agree. n/t 1StrongBlackMan Feb 2016 #49

Good point! JustAnotherGen Feb 2016 #27

Bernie would not stand for it. And neither would the other 99.9999% of his followers Jarqui Feb 2016 #12

then it was unjust for black people not to support Joe Lieberman JI7 Feb 2016 #14

Was it? Jarqui Feb 2016 #17

Booker is doing the right thing on Voter Rights JustAnotherGen Feb 2016 #25

Actually... qwlauren35 Feb 2016 #67

It's going to be ugly. Starry Messenger Feb 2016 #13

What's New? FrenchieCat Feb 2016 #18

Wouldn't be the firs time. There was backlash toward blacks in 2008 over California's Prop 8. Drunken Irishman Feb 2016 #19

Yes there was! JustAnotherGen Feb 2016 #24

I think either way the majority goes Lazy Daisy Feb 2016 #21

Bernie is a keyword I have trashed JustAnotherGen Feb 2016 #23

I fear that you may be right on this prediction Gothmog Feb 2016 #26

You worry too much Depaysement Feb 2016 #28

Message auto-removed Name removed Feb 2016 #30

But when has ANY group blamed themselves ... 1StrongBlackMan Feb 2016 #33

Good point Depaysement Feb 2016 #35

No ... 1StrongBlackMan Feb 2016 #38

Yes . . . Depaysement Feb 2016 #41

Eugene McCarthey ... 1StrongBlackMan Feb 2016 #42

Whatever eom Depaysement Feb 2016 #60

Backlash from who exactly here on DU, nationally, both? azurnoir Feb 2016 #29

Perhaps - both? JustAnotherGen Feb 2016 #31

I remember 1976 too it's the year I got married azurnoir Feb 2016 #34

If Pennsylvania and Ohio and Florida JustAnotherGen Feb 2016 #36

who's promising $15/hr to someone already making $44,000 a year? or already making around $22/hr? azurnoir Feb 2016 #37

Exactly - so what would he need to offer that group of black Americans? JustAnotherGen Feb 2016 #39

$15/hr is an offer for minimum wage-do you think that no Black person works for that? azurnoir Feb 2016 #40

I believe we work for far less than that JustAnotherGen Feb 2016 #43

Bernie has and quite eloquently here in part more @ the link azurnoir Feb 2016 #45

I'm still not voting in the primary JustAnotherGen Feb 2016 #48

Just saw another GDP lecture the Black folk at DU thread. randys1 Feb 2016 #50

a question was asked of me and I answered if you choose to call that "lecturing the Black folk" azurnoir Feb 2016 #57

Yeah - there's that JustAnotherGen Feb 2016 #59

your choice you asked I answered azurnoir Feb 2016 #58

Black people monicaangela Feb 2016 #51

African Americans in Flint might wonder if they are being paid back for their votes. randys1 Feb 2016 #52

Flint, Benton Harbor, Detroit monicaangela Feb 2016 #53

Yep, but the added insult to them that Black people for the most part voted for Obama randys1 Feb 2016 #54

Exactly, monicaangela Feb 2016 #56

Ugh, could care less about their approval, but these are dangerous and violent people randys1 Feb 2016 #61

I am and I do monicaangela Feb 2016 #62

don't worry EdwardBernays Feb 2016 #55

Kicked for you calling it.. Quayblue Feb 2016 #65

I think prop8 is very different from this issue. I hope there is no backlash, but if there is La Lioness Priyanka Feb 2016 #66

I posed about this in GDP a few months ago firebrand80 Feb 2016 #68

Smell this ... 1StrongBlackMan Feb 2016 #69

no more and no less than when Garcia lost Chicago MisterP Feb 2016 #70

Any backlash will soon qive way to what will have to be a sobering acknowledgment of a new reality Blasphemer Feb 2016 #71

I'm not vdogg Feb 2016 #72

It will break my heart if Bernie loses, but if he does, like I said feb 16, the BACKLASH randys1 Feb 2016 #73

As a black Bernie supporter NWCorona Feb 2016 #74