2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: I'm Black. Old Blacks have failed us. It's time for Young Blacks to make our stand on Super Tuesday [View all]jonestonesusa
(880 posts)Bring back the paper bag test, or what? I guess it's the internet, so old school tactics to tell who's black just don't work.
Maybe what I'm hearing is that the diversity of black public opinion is surprising, but it shouldn't be. Not in 2016. If you haven't yet, check out Eugene Robinson's The Disintegration of Black America. That's my favorite quick summary of some of the many segments in black public opinion.
One more possibility - maybe since the beginning of the Sanders campaign, there are some black DUers who support Sanders as a candidate and they're tired of being marginalized as "out of the main" or criticized for not being "another brick in Hillary's firewall."
Can't rule out white Sanders supporters masquerading as being black. Anything can happen, I guess.