2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: 500+ at multicultural Bernie event in San Diego [View all]karynnj
(59,507 posts)As soon as Bernie had a big kickoff event in Burlington.
It should have been easy enough just to have said that he was a hometown kid in a town or just allowed him to have that day. No one attacked Dean when he had his Church Street Burlington event in 2004.
This time, whether intentional or not, they insulted not just Bernie, but Vermont. Here, I think the rest of the country might want to consider that in 1988, very white Chittenden County, where Burlington is, chose to become a refugee resettlement center. This very white communities welcomed African and Asian refugees and is helping them build new lives.
Just as Bernie has a real record of having personally been in the civil rights movement, Bernie ' s town has much to be proud of -- even as it is not perfect.
This is a decisive meme that does two things. The first is to credit Clinton as having a fantastic record on this, the second is to ignore everything Bernie did in his life and state that he has a problem here.