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In reply to the discussion: Why all the hate towards Cornell West? [View all]Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)There are fair criticisms that can be made of the guy(he should have had his criminal justice proposals on his website on day one, and I personally wish he had been much more strongly antiwar on the Middle East), but the attacks on Bernie and race have always been way, way over the line.
It's legitimate to say HRC has a longer relationship with the AA community(its old-line leadership in particular).
It's simply wrong to imply that Bernie has ever dismissed the need to fight institutional bigotry, or to act like he hasn't improved his policy proposals on that as the campaign has progressed.
OR to act as if those of us who support Bernie don't care about institutional bigotry and have campaigned as though our candidate didn't need POC votes.
And frankly, it really, really bothers me that the HRC campaign's surrogates have spent months trying to create a bogus division between the social justice and economic justice movements, when in the vast majority of cases those two movements are allied and in agreement(and are more often than not made up of the SAME people). No presidential candidate was ever special enough to justify doing that.
Didn't mean to unload on you in the previous post or to sound intolerant.
If you don't like Cornel West, that's your call. No disrespect to your convictions on the matter was intended.