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In reply to the discussion: I am worried about backlash against the AfAm community as a whole if Bernie [View all]JRLeft
(7,010 posts)44. This like I posted in my own thread the only people who can help us is us.
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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
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
pretty much all black people say they will vote for Sanders if he becomes the nominee
JI7
Feb 2016
#20
Sorry, I don't see help coming from other people to help us, all I see is rhetoric.
JRLeft
Feb 2016
#47
Bernie would not stand for it. And neither would the other 99.9999% of his followers
Jarqui
Feb 2016
#12
Wouldn't be the firs time. There was backlash toward blacks in 2008 over California's Prop 8.
Drunken Irishman
Feb 2016
#19
who's promising $15/hr to someone already making $44,000 a year? or already making around $22/hr?
azurnoir
Feb 2016
#37
$15/hr is an offer for minimum wage-do you think that no Black person works for that?
azurnoir
Feb 2016
#40
a question was asked of me and I answered if you choose to call that "lecturing the Black folk"
azurnoir
Feb 2016
#57
African Americans in Flint might wonder if they are being paid back for their votes.
randys1
Feb 2016
#52
Yep, but the added insult to them that Black people for the most part voted for Obama
randys1
Feb 2016
#54
Ugh, could care less about their approval, but these are dangerous and violent people
randys1
Feb 2016
#61
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
Any backlash will soon qive way to what will have to be a sobering acknowledgment of a new reality
Blasphemer
Feb 2016
#71