"Hillary Won the Confederacy": How Bernie's Campaign is Subtly Fueling Racist Rhetoric of His Suppor

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Spandan Chakrabarti | March 17, 2016

Ed Schultz. Michael Moore. The Huffington Post. Shaun King of New York Daily News. Prominent Bernie Sanders backers in the media and culture have for some time been perpetuating the reprehensible idea that black voters - who delivered 30, 40, 50 point wins for Hillary Clinton in southern states don't count because their states are likely to vote for the Republican in the general election in November.

But it isn't just his prominent supporters. The Sanders campaign has itself repeated that message, albeit in more subtle forms. After Hillary Clinton won seven out of 11 states on March 1, Sanders senior adviser Tad Devine and campaign manager Jeff Weaver sent the message that the "calendar" ahead didn't look good for Clinton, intimating that the black-heavy southern states where Clinton racked up big margins were about done voting (well, that prediction didn't work out too well).

It was only a matter of time before a prominent Sanders backing organization would do
something like this:

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Progressive Democrats of America is an ultra ideologue Leftist organization that backed Bernie Sanders' candidacy early. After Sanders lost 5 out of 5 states on Tuesday, PDA has taken the logical next step to what Bernie's mouthpieces have been doing for more than a month: they have gone from minimizing the black vote as insignificant because they live in "red states" to minimizing them as part of the confederacy.

That is outrageous. The people providing Clinton's huge margins, black voters, are by and large descendants of slaves, and to associate them with the confederacy is a disgusting display of racism.

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Bernie Sanders must take personal responsibility. Bernie Sanders must denounce the groups and individuals using disgusting language and delegitimizing the black vote. Bernie Sanders must reject all campaign support from groups like PDA and media support from publications like Salon.

Failing to do so will be seen for what it is: his quiet consent to use racism as a campaign weapon.


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I guess BLM only some of the time. Their votes, none of the time.