2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Sanders was the only White guy who showed up [View all]EffieBlack
(14,249 posts)"Support" is nice, but that's not the same as being on the "front lines." What did he do for black people since he's been in the Senate that qualifies as "being on the front lines?"
This constant effort to blow up Bernie's college foray in the civil rights movement 50 years ago (before he chucked it and moved to Vermont, where the civil rights movement was just muffled background noise from places far away in time and space) into a reputation as some kind of major freedom fight for black people is not only disingenuous, it is also an insult to all of those people, white and black, who really DID fight on the front lines. And it's surely one of the reasons that Bernie got his ass handed to him in South Carolina - black voters saw right through that and responded accordingly.