Why HRC is bad for black people, the shorter version

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61. As a white person living in the south, I tend to agree with this assessment.

Here in the south, the struggle for civil rights required survival in a hard, mean, life-threatening environment, and that struggle continues to this day. Black people survived and gained rights by forging very close bonds with one another and trusted allies. Once earned, a place at the table is a sacred trust. Perfection is not expected or demanded. Loyalty is.

Some of Bernie's white supporters never knew this, and others who should know it seem to have forgotten.

You can't waltz into the south and demand black people's vote and expect to get it. You have to be invited to the table, and that only happens after years of loyal, hard work.

The Clintons are imperfect. People get that. It's an imperfect world. But in the south, the new guy in town is going to be greeted with a a fair amount of polite skepticism. Especially if he seems to be just passing through.