Bernie Sanders
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(45,251 posts)she said. I was thinking maybe he could hold an event for people of color and just listen for a couple of hours, though reserving the right to states facts near the end.
Let me say first: Although I was not born into an easy life, people of color in this country go through more crap by Monday morning at 10 am than I have to deal with all week, maybe all year.
Given that, I am not going to tell any person of color what to be satisfied with from a candidate or from anything else.
I just know that, speaking for myself, none of the candidates has been perfect about race and, FWIW, if anything, my white looking self thinks Sanders has been the best--and the most authentic.
(I confess I have mixed feelings about white people purporting to speak on behalf of people of color. I think some of them mean well and some of them, maybe not so much.)
My very individual impression is that Sanders is trying to unite us around issues that will benefit us all, rather than divide us, and that are most needed by the groups that have been traditionally disadvantaged most. He has certainly said often enough that we should not let anyone divide us because we are stronger united. (Those are my words, but he has said that in his own words quite a lot.)
Having a big tent is not such a blessing if every group imaginable huddles together apart from the others. United, we have a chance, albeit a very slim one, of bucking the billionaires. Pitted against one another, as those in power would like us to be, we don't have a shot, not even at fairer interest rates on student loans, which has already been defeated in Congress with impunity. Also, there is just so much the federal government can do.