2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: The Netroots Nation videos of Bernie and Martin. [View all]JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)yesterday at the meeting. It was great.
The Netroots Nation really cheated liberals and O'Malley and Sanders with this very childish looking outburst. A demonstration was appropriate but not the extreme discourtesy to Democrats who are clearly liberal on all issues especially race and police brutality.
What made me very suspicious is that Obama has been president for 6 years during which we have seen one terrible incident of police brutality against Blacks after the other and many other incidents of racial horror like the shooting in the church, yet very few demonstrations have been aimed at Obama or the White House and very few questions have been asked of him about what he wants to do about the racism.
So it seems that only white presidential candidates are criticized for their lack of action on the issue of racism. Obama could have done a lot of things to make the situation better. He hasn't done much. Sorry. But that is the truth.