2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Very intersting opinion piece by a Black man on the Sanders campaign [View all]bravenak
(34,648 posts)We do not all vote the same but about eighty percent of us do, more in the deep south. Our reasons for this voting patter is terribly complex and needs to be viewed through the lens of race.
When the Clintons came in we had just spent eight years in the seven hells with reagan. The switch to the Clintons was like a dawn of a new day. He actually liked us. And worked with us. Not everything went well but we can deal with them because they respect us. They need us. They do not tell us what we need they ask us what we need.
See, we do not look up at billionaires as the oligarchy. We look at the white power structures our oligarchy. At white supremacy and institutional racism as our oligarchy. Unless you are willing to recognize our oligarchy as just as bad as yours, we cannot join you.
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