Congressional Black Caucus Whip: Bernie Sanders 'a bit presumptuous' on race relations

[Cali_Democrat]

Washington (CNN)A Congressional Black Caucus leader said Friday that it is "a bit presumptuous" for Bernie Sanders to conclude he is the best candidate to improve race relations in America.

Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, a New York Democrat and Hillary Clinton supporter, told CNN's "New Day" improving race relations is more complicated than the Vermont independent senator suggested.

"I thought that was a very simplistic answer to a very complicated problem," the whip of the Congressional Black Caucus told CNN's Alisyn Camerota. "Under the Obama Administration, we've had 71 consecutive months of private sector job creation. More than 14 million jobs have been created. He's done a tremendous job -- meaning President Barack Obama. But we still have some issues related to race relations that have to be tackled."

Jeffries added, "I think it seemed a bit presumptuous to me to conclude that Bernie Sanders in the twilight of his career was going to be able to be the great healer in race relations."

Asked at Thursday's Democratic debate if "race relations would be better under a Sanders presidency than they've been," Sanders replied, "Absolutely."

http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/12/politics/hakeem-jeffries-democratic-debate-bernie-sanders/index.html

[LexVegas]

1. Thats an understatement. nt

[bravenak]

5. You beat me to it

[floriduck]

2. I'd expect nothing less from Jeffries.

He did, after all, announce the CBCPAC endorsement of Hillary. This is not even news worthy.

[jkbRN]

7. Yep yep.

[Wilms]

3. His policies will go a long way.

For one, more people working means more people interacting.

Meeting, working, eating TOGETHER chills racism. Poverty increases it.

[cali]

4. Lol. Jeffries doubles down.

[bravenak]

6. For suuure

[Matt_in_STL]

9. I'm curious as to why you changed this from the original wording

[bravenak]

10. Think about it. People call everything i say something other than what it was so i have to

[Matt_in_STL]

11. Well, you had cleared the alert pretty handily

On Fri Feb 12, 2016, 10:31 AM an alert was sent on the following post:

For suuure
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1251&pid=1212709

REASON FOR ALERT

This post is disruptive, hurtful, rude, insensitive, over-the-top, or otherwise inappropriate.

ALERTER'S COMMENTS

"Fa Sho" to a post responding to what an African American Congressman said?" How is this not patently offensive and racist?

You served on a randomly-selected Jury of DU members which reviewed this post. The review was completed at Fri Feb 12, 2016, 10:38 AM, and the Jury voted 0-7 to LEAVE IT.

Juror #1 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: No explanation given
Juror #2 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: I may be wrong, but I was under the impression bravenak is AA?
Juror #3 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: It's not racist if that's how you speak the language every day because you ARE BLACK.
Juror #4 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: While I suspect the alert was in good faith, Bravenak is a known AA poster here and although some may think you can be a racist AA against others, I don't (nor do the rules suggest as such to my knowledge). There is nothing offensive in this post that I can determine.
Juror #5 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
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Juror #6 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: You have a very twisted mind, alerter, if you think an AA poster is racist. Seems some on this board are working overtime to, once again, shut down a poster they seem to personally dislike. Maybe you should look into your own heart and root out the biases.
Juror #7 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: While I typically don't agree with anything from this poster, I am not going to help out in the frivolous alert wars. Challenge each other to fisticuffs on the playground after school like all the other kids.

[bravenak]

12. So many alerts I just change it

[Cali_Democrat]

14. Yup

African Americans on DU are being alert stalked.

It's a well-known fact.

[bravenak]

17. Oh yes.

Everybody knows.

[bravenak]

13. Fisticuffs has me on the floor laughing

[Matt_in_STL]

15. That was actually mine.

[bravenak]

16. Perfect

[Jefferson23]

8. lol