New to DU and new here. Also a question about optics

[Kind of Blue]

29. I agree with you that progressivism is better

than neoliberalism and I was totally with Sanders, relieved to have a clear choice. And then...

I think what we're really hearing is mostly about the broader perspective and less on the inclusion. That's why my priority is based on how meaningfully inclusive the candidates are. Just the opposite side of the coin. I was trying to point out why I believe you may not be getting anywhere with potential supporters, and suggest specifically targeting other black Sanders supporters for more help/brainstorming.

I suggested that you read Letter from a Birmingham jail because you said "I myself hesitate to walk it," as far as citing MLK as BS tried and failed, "because his legacy is still being co-opted. That and because I don't feel qualified to say as much because I have not personally studied his work."

So suggesting the Letter had nothing to do with waking up black yesterday. It was just clear that you have not studied his work to see how progressivism and BLM were linked in Dr. King's movement.

The age thing was because I thought (1) much younger blacks than me were quick to see the pandering - perhaps without even knowing the years of the schtick and (2) older blacks who know of Sanders don't really see him in an important civil rights role. So I thought may be it's a much younger age thing that you didn't see it/feel it the way many of us do or did, that saying he marched with MLK all those years ago was a weird way of claiming cred.