Bernie

[OneBro]

11. Must I move on so quickly?

I still have my Bernie 2016 t-shirt, though it's been in storage for a while. Since Bernie lost, though, I've gone from Bernie fever to luke warm to turned off to WTF.

It hasn't been a week since Bernie said "I think you know there are a lot of white folks out there who are not necessarily racist who felt uncomfortable for the first time in their lives about whether or not they wanted to vote for an African-American." I suspect others will agree that Bernie's comment tracked a bit too closely to Trump's comment that some of the Charlottesville racists were "good people."

I don't think Bernie is now a Trump, but his comment serves as a reminder that, well, you think you know someone, especially a liberal, and then they slip and kinda remind you where you are and where we've been and how far we yet have to go.

It's difficult for ANYONE raised in America to NOT be biased against other races, i.e. a little racist. I include myself in this generalization and I continue to check myself when my own judgment might be clouded by such ignorance.

No, I don't think Bernie is anywhere near a KKK racist, a David Duke, a Proud Boy or a Donald Trump or any similar iteration of hate-filled human being, but Bernie has now lost any semblance of shine he once had in my book. I still wholeheartedly agree with MANY of his proposed policies, but this REALLY isn't a good day to ask me to ignore his recent comments just because my alternative might be a Trump clone. I get it, seriously, but must I move on and again embrace the guy as though his comments mean nothing to me? Can I have a few days? A week? Is that too much to ask?