2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: The Racist Meme: The South Doesn't Count [View all]Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)'He's saying those states didn't end the contest.
It basically sounds like YOU think Bernie could only have proved he respects POC by withdrawing from the race after Super Tuesday...even though a withdrawal would have meant Bernie was giving up on fighting for economic justice(and economic justice is something POC need even more than whites, thanks to the alliance between racism and capitalism).
Bernie never attacked black voters. He never would.
Jobs were created in the Nineties. Those jobs didn't depend on Bill being right-wing and anti-union(remember, beig anti-union always means being objectively anti-POC, because POC hold most of the jobs in which union representation, strong workplace safety laws, and strong anti-discrimination laws are most desperately needed) on economic and trade policy.
The creation of those jobs did not require OR excuse Bill and Hill's unquestioning acceptance of the racist myth that welfare and "personal irresponsibility" were predominantly black things(most people on welfare and most people abusing drugs, refusing to work and having children out of wedlock are and have always been white people).
Nor did they require Bill to sell out to newt Gingrich, Rudy Giuliani and the white supremacist movement on crime policy. We didn't need mass incarceration and more executions to get more jobs.
Any Democrat who was in office at that time would have presided over the creation of the same number of jobs.
BTW, it's weird that you've been one of the posters here most heavily bashing Bernie over his support of economic justice, yet your last post used the argument that economic growth makes every betrayal Bill and Hill inflicted on you no big deal.