2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: While I support the overall BLM movement, the group's so-called "representatives" have lost me. [View all]cui bono
(19,926 posts)and keep spreading the meme you just repeated. It just doesn't happen to be true. But the PoC that he does connect with are being told that they are a betrayal to their race here on DU.
This is a clear and concerted effort to divide the party on social and economic lines so as to aid HRC's campaign. It's been obvious from the start, before the BLM kerfuffle, when the PoC who are HRC supporters pointed out his "lily white" crowds "wink wink" and said things like "it's not racism, it's economics" and "when do the 'minorities' get to play". Now the new meme is it doesn't matter what he did all his life, even though it was in large part fighting for civil rights, for some reason we're not supposed to mention that any more. It's pretty convenient to not allow the past into this when HRC ran the ugliest race baiting campaign last time around. Yes please, let's forget her racial past that was ugly by saying the past doesn't matter, meanwhile throwing out Bernie's strength along with it.
Politics over principles. Damn.