2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Why HRC is bad for black people, the shorter version [View all]JCanete
(5,272 posts)all attacks against Clinton and her history and current policies on race and economics as untouchable, because somehow attacking them means that you are calling people of color stupid or ignorant. The truth is people do vote against their self-interest all the time, which is why we got Reagan, And W.
And in this primary, there was a concerted effort to ensure that that happened this time, by successfully painting Sanders as a candidate for white males. Propaganda does work, especially against an unknown quantity. People knew Clinton. They knew what they were getting. When the first thing you hear about a candidate is that he is an old white guy who is popular with white men, and you're hearing that from other democrats and national black leaders are saying things like "I never met the man" its not an unreasonable thing to assume the worst and not give the candidate a second look. We all have a certain amount of bandwidth, so we use a lot of shorthand to make our decisions. That's hardly an indictment of black people. Its an indictment of the party that sold the lie.