2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forum#BernieSoBlack creator explains why he's so frustrated with Sanders's supporters
There's a lot of "You're not saying this stuff to other candidates," but we are. He just kind of had a bad 48 hours or so. I'm not expecting him to drop out of the race; I think he'll be fine. Hopefully, from the tweets I've seen, I think his campaign's listening, and hopefully they're going to regroup and hopefully reform and be more vocal around some of these issues. . . .
Dara Lind:So the Sanders supporters who aren't with the campaign, did you see any receptiveness from them, or was it just a lot of unironic "#BernieSoBlack he marched with MLK," which missed the point completely?
Roderick Morrow:Oh, yeah, there's a ton of that. Honestly, the joke is not even on Bernie Sanders. That's what's so funny the joke is on the defense of him, which is, if you extrapolate to the furthest extent, he can do no wrong on race. Like, we should not even expect anything of him, he put in his time already, we need to just shut up. . .
And it's kind of scary, too, because on a deeper level, when he talked about Ferguson, he was like, "Well, the real problem is that there's not enough jobs." And while I agree jobs are definitely a problem, and opportunities are a problem, and you definitely want people to be working Mike Brown was going to college. He was on his way to school in a couple of days. I don't think that was necessarily the problem in that situation. I hope it's not just him saying, "If these Negroes were working there wouldn't be any problems," because ooh, that's not too far from some really bold negative statements that we've heard about the black race in the past. I don't think that's what's underlying it, I just think he needs to be more vocal and speak with some authority about it because he seems to run from talking about it. I don't think it's that hard to talk about it. Elizabeth Warren knocked the socks off the room, because she was talking about the economy, but she just happened to mention, "Hey, black lives matter, we do need people working, we do need to get people out of jails." She was very vocal about it, but I didn't feel like she was just coming there to kiss butt. I felt like she was just being sincere. . .
I'm more hopeful for the campaign than I am for his defenders. The campaign itself tweeted out a couple things. Obviously they're seeing the trends on social media and they're obviously seeing they need to do better.
http://www.vox.com/2015/7/20/9005855/black-twitter-bernie-sanders
Response to BainsBane (Original post)
Cheese Sandwich This message was self-deleted by its author.
BainsBane
(53,001 posts)I haven't seen it.
Cheese Sandwich
(9,086 posts)Maybe it just seems like that to me since I've seen it many times and places, but also on the other sites not just DU.
Capt. Obvious
(9,002 posts)BainsBane
(53,001 posts)In that case it will probably sink.
Snotcicles
(9,089 posts)Bobbie Jo
(14,341 posts)Snotcicles
(9,089 posts)Bobbie Jo
(14,341 posts)zappaman
(20,605 posts)Where was it posted?
Cheese Sandwich
(9,086 posts)I'm not the posting police. People post whatever they want.
zappaman
(20,605 posts)Thanks for letting us know "people can post what they want".
Cheese Sandwich
(9,086 posts)This is what I said:
And this is how you quoted me:
ibegurpard
(16,685 posts)stevenleser
(32,886 posts)Fearless
(18,421 posts)Neither side is doing to the other what they claim they are and right wrong trolls are eating it up.
BainsBane
(53,001 posts)and lots of it.
Fearless
(18,421 posts)BainsBane
(53,001 posts)that is the core of what the hash tag is responding to, according to its creator.
Fearless
(18,421 posts)There are of course others, but the general public likes easy news and legislative measures are boring.
BainsBane
(53,001 posts)Clearly it is not enough for the "general public." This isn't 1962. It's 2015. People want to know what he would do about the current problems facing the AA community if he were elected president. If those marches had solved everything, there would be no need for Black Lives Matters.
Response to Fearless (Reply #23)
BainsBane This message was self-deleted by its author.
seveneyes
(4,631 posts)Clever hashtags and finger wagging rues the day.
artislife
(9,497 posts)#berniesoblack..was easily one of the funniest things I read. I wish we could have all had a good laugh at ourselves and think of it as a roast. You know like on Comely Central. But there was comic gold in most of the tweets.
Le sigh
BainsBane
(53,001 posts)and yeah, I definitely agree it's good to be able to laugh at oneself.