2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Dear white progressives: Stop telling black people how to vote [View all]el_bryanto
(11,804 posts)I think that in the Democratic Primary you should vote for Bernie Sanders - I don't care if you are white, black, male, female, or whatever - vote for Bernie Sanders.
But I respect that you have the right to vote how you like, and you might look at things differently than I do. You might even be right; depending on what your priorities are and how you look at things. That's why we have Primaries to hash out what we as a party think is really important as a party.
It is off putting though when someone tries to suggest that one group of people - in this case black people - are told that they need to vote for someone because they are black or because they owe it or for whatever reason. I think you should vote for Bernie Sanders because he's the best for the job (in my opinion) but I don't think you owe him your vote because of your skin color or any nonsense like that.
Bryant