Bernie picks his battles. Attacking him about reparations actually helps him

[snagglepuss]

as it shows him to be a leader who picks his battles and one not willing to pander, promising the moon and the stars to a demographic whose support he needs.

Camp Weathervane and the rest of the Establishment want desperately to frame Bernie as a pie-in-the-sky idealist but that is not what Bernie is. Bernie is fighting for what every other developed country has and that is universal health care. Given that every other developed country has been able to institute universal health care than it's not a pie-in-the-sky goal.

Frankly it's insulting to everyone's intelligence that people like Obama and Hillary who don't support reparations attack Bernie for not supporting it. Their motivation to find something, anything with which to attack Bernie is so apparent that it's laughable.

[firebrand80]

1. Obama and Hillary did what now? nt

[KittyWampus]

2. Nobody is actually attacking him because of reparations. Not even Coates.

Camp Revolutionary Rainbow Crapping Unicorn loves to appeal to emotions and regurgitate the same little speech he's been giving for 50 years.

But when it comes to one subject, he pulls up short. No Revolution for YOU, African Americans.

THAT is the point Coates was making.

And it's less about Sanders than it is about the extent to which white Americans are willing to expand their minds on the subject of African American citizens and the apartheid-like system they exist under.

Again, Coates has made me rethink things quite a bit. Am I ready to support reparations? I am totally ambivalent and that is a good thing. His writing makes me deeply uncomfortable at times. But that means my mind is expanding.

[Ed Suspicious]

5. No. I just don't see it that way.

AA are very much included in the revolution. Bernie brings a unifying message that transcends divisions of race and ethnicity. Bernie is trying to gain for the 99% clawing back from the 1%. That means all the 99%. Red, green, black, white, yellow, or brown, everybody finds a win when we get back to fair elections and sensible, bottom up public policies. Bernie's message is simple. The only people who pretend not to get it are those who think they'll benefit from its obfuscation.

[Cali_Democrat]

3. When did Obama and Hillary attack Bernie for not supporting reparations?

Did you just make that up?

LOL....this place....

SMH

[JRLeft]

4. Alright fellow Bernie supporters let it go.

[Doctor_J]

6. He seems impervious to attacks.

that is one big advantage to having principles. You can fling a "reparations" turd at him, but he has 50 years of fighting for civil rights which outweigh one made-up attack.