After Considering the Clintons, Black Thinkers Like Bernie Sanders
Spike Lee is the latest black public intellectual to endorse Bernie Sanders and to question the sanity of black voters and politicians pledging their allegiance to the Clintons, who have done as much harm to black America as any living political couple,” writes Steven Thrasher at The Guardian. “I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: I am mystified by robust black support for Bill and Hillary Clinton.”
The case against Clintonian neoliberalism is compelling. I am glad to see black thinkers making a case for Sanders’ democratic socialism and its potential to address structural racism as an alternative. If anyone is smart enough to effectively make Sanders’ case to Black America, it would be the intellectual leaders who have endorsed him thus far.
Take Spike Lee. He is one of the contemporary black geniuses who have helped the nation (and me personally) reconsider race in transformative ways – and the latest to be feeling the Bern. Or Cornel West, who has been stumping for “Brother Bernie” for months. Just as I understood race differently after watching Crooklyn and Jungle Fever, I grew to understand black liberation theology and the radical potential of Christianity by reading West’s books – his influence [has] been immeasurable. And, like much of America, I learned how to better think about the case for reparations after Ta-Nehisi Coates made it in the Atlantic. That’s why it matters so much that [he said] he’d vote for Sanders earlier this month.[link:http:// http://m.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/after_considering_the_clintons_black_thinkers_like_bernie_sanders_20160224|
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