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]markj757
(194 posts)Last edited Tue Mar 1, 2016, 11:16 AM - Edit history (2)
in reference to the "so-called Bernie supporters" and the "uninformed ignorant shallow views of the black community" comments, I qualified those statements by only referring to many of those Bernie supporters on DU, which are obviously only a minuscule fraction of a fraction of his supporters. And I also wrote they don't reflect the values of the candidate, and I don't think they reflect the views of the vast majority of his supporters as I have pointed out in other post.
I also didn't mention anything about not engaging, I just gave a warning that if you do engage, its highly unlikely you will be able to convince them of anything substantive, which is an opinion obviously, but isn't that what this is all about. I also didn't mention anything about a nice polite conversation, because I agree, that's not important, I emphasized reasoned and intelligent debate, which does not have to be nice and polite, but it should be as substantive as possible.
For such a reasoned and thoughtful response, I just wish you would have captured more of the essence of my post which was a response to this John Lucas thread (somewhat of an ignorant post for someone coming from our community) to my fellow DUers from the black community. But I welcome the criticism.