2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Bernie Supporters - Please read my post [View all]cui bono
(19,926 posts)But you know very well that as long as people keep trying to say the past doesn't matter or that Bernie doesn't care about or have policy plans that will affect black lives - as long as the AA group allows swiftboat OPs that lie about what he said about racism to stand ( by supposed Bernie supporter hosts no less) - as long as there are swiftboat OPs such as the "Not Enough, Bernie" OP - as long as people keep attacking Bernie on one of his strengths - his supporters are going to keep touting his record. That's what happens in campaigns, people run on their record.
It isn't directed at all PoC as a way of trying to "teach" them anything, it is directed specifically at the people who keep ignoring it and who keep trying to paint him as a candidate who doesn't care about black people, which is clearly false.
That's not saying that he is running a perfect campaign that is doing a fine job of reaching out to PoC, but to conflate that with people having the need to defend him against a swiftboat campaign is just wrong.