2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: I'm Black. Old Blacks have failed us. It's time for Young Blacks to make our stand on Super Tuesday [View all]markj757
(194 posts)I have found that regardless of our well reasoned and thoughtful responses, there is a large segment of Bernie supporters on this site who don't truly represent the values of the candidate himself. Bernie himself made the point that he did very poorly with older black voters, but he didn't say it with malice, or with the level of ignorance as this John Lucas post. I have come to accept, and you should as well, that many of the so called Bernie supporters on this site, embrace that John Lucas perspective because it fits neatly into their uninformed ignorant shallow view of the black community as whole. You can find any person of any race to say something ignorant that doesn't reflect the spirit or perspective of that community. If there is reasoned and intelligent debate to be had about the role of race in the democratic primary, you are very unlikely to find it in threads like this. So if you engage, I just advise you to be ready to accept the futility of trying to convince the vast majority of the Bernie supporters on these threads of anything substantive. They would much rather gravitate toward the likes of John Lucas, than the truth. Even though, you and I both know, his words lack credibility in our community, and only gives solace to those who want to believe it.