2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: If MLK were alive today... [View all]Number23
(24,544 posts)and the many other sane, decent, non-clueless, non-hostile, non-paternalistic Sanders supporters. And hopefully the echo chamber DU has become this year hasn't run all of you off or rattled too many brains.
I told F4lconF16 in his post in the AA forum, where he as a young white man was bemoaning and face palming over these people as well, that it was up to him and other Sanders supporters to fix this shit. Although Falcon made it VERY clear that he was not a Sanders supporter (and one of the reasons for that being the caliber of other Sanders supporters) I think my point to him still stands.
This sad OP has 39 recs on the biggest pro-Bernie web site outside of berniesanders.com. And a slew of other white people, including Sanders supporters of many hues, are openly noting how revolting it is. Now you and I know it probably won't make one lick of difference to the OP and his crew but there may be somebody else reading this train wreck and who may see how black members and clued in whites -- including clued in Sanders supporters -- are responding to it and decide, "hey I was going to do a poster/button of Bernie with MLK but now maybe I won't. This kind of stuff seems to do alot more harm than good."
You have got an incredibly tough job but I know that you're up for it. And you won't be alone. Not even close.