2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Second Democratic Debate Proves Why Sanders Is BETTER Than Clinton [View all]bravenak
(34,648 posts)decision not to support Bernie. Just because they see it as nothing does not mean that black people who were targeted or support BLM see it as nothing. Just because you think it is stupid to vote based off of how you are treated by a group rather than pure policy does not make it so. Just because you think you are smarter, does not make it so. It is not just on the internet. I know for fact they send letters. I got one in my mailbox. Some people are so sure that they are right that they do not care how they behave in their quest to get what they want. Many have not shown that they are allies of Blacks that I have seen in this entire cycle. From expressing support for comments by Cornel West, comments like calling Obama 'niggerized', to calling the black community uninformed, labeling us as SOCIAL JUSTICE WARRIORS in a derisive way, harassing our protestors like BLM, harassing John Lewis for endorsing Hillary, creating terms like race nagger to attack us with, and then pretending nothing is wrong with it, WITH ANY OF IT, I just do not see that as our ally. Now those same loud few are just accusing us of pulling the race card whenever we point out this foul behaiviour. The rest ignore it mostly and expect us to fight their peers alone wile they get to be innocent. How is that an ally, again? An ally would tell their fellow supporters to stfu if they get out of line and weed out the bad actors and point out the trolls themselves rather than expecting an oppressed minority to ignore even MORE RACIST crap, to favor their candidate.