Bernie Sanders Unveils Sweeping Policy Platform To Combat Racial Inequality

[Concerning VIolence]

Putting your stock into a savior (again) is always going to look funny at the end.
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Also if you think Sanders gets anywhere close to the nomination, you probably also believed Trump was gonna win the GOP. He's the Ron Paul of the democratic run.

It's amazing how you guys don't see this political spectacle script the exact same as last time.

 

[pimpineasy]

Then you've sorely miseducated and are in complete denial of what life is like for black people in America.

That's the problem black people in America think they represent the black experience. Y'all don't. I'm Jamaican and my wife is African and we look at you as being mad spoilt. Oh the police shot you because you almost robbed a store. That is such a regular occurrence where I am from. Hospitals won't even waste time on you most times. Cops will put in the trunk and drive around with you to a rum bar ...And I grew up a majority. Again your view of the black experience is limited.

 

[rapbeats]

Good point.

I wonder how are ancestors who got killed/attacked by dogs/jailed for trying to vote feel when they hear this.

oh boy. here we go with this again. actually our ancestors would feel just fine if a black person chose not to vote. you know why? Because they didnt go thru that just to VOTE. they went thru that so black people would have the ABILITY TO VOTE. there's a difference. its called having a CHOICE. Slaves didnt have choices. THey were TOLD what to do and that was that.

If a man's choice is a no vote, so be it.

 

[rapbeats]

Putting your stock into a savior (again) is always going to look funny at the end.
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Also if you think Sanders gets anywhere close to the nomination, you probably also believed Trump was gonna win the GOP. He's the Ron Paul of the democratic run.

It's amazing how you guys don't see this political spectacle script the exact same as last time.

with that being said. the reason bernie wont win isnt because he shouldnt or cant. its because people like you are a huge majority of the dem base. you go in thinking "oh well hill billy is going to win. " when in reality you could say EFF HIl and run to the bernie side. you and the rest of the dems/independents who think just like you.

 

[Concerning VIolence]

its because people like you are a huge majority of the dem base. you go in thinking "oh well hill billy is going to win. " when in reality you could say EFF HIl and run to the bernie side. you and the rest of the dems/independents who think just like you.

No it's called statistics and probability.

 

[Claudex]

You giving Omar Bashir a pass too because of "colonialism"?

Giving a pass? Really breh? That's what you got out of my response?
Okay, allow me to be clearer then. I do not condone anything those dictators did and still do (for the ones alive), but I understand that they all have some international leverage (some more than others of course) that makes them enough of a threat to not be attacked in their own playground. Whether it be allies, or allies of their allies (it being the US in the case of Omar al-Bashir back in the 90's).

Fact of the matter is that a lot of African countries are still pretty dependent on Europe and the US for a lot of things, and both front-door and back-door deals are reached to satisfy those dependencies. If not with the dictator in question then with the opposition.

So no, these dictators the breh mentioned do not operate in a vacuum nor do they really really RUN shyt like they expect us all to believe. No matter how disgusting they are all them fukkers are minor league, and they all know it very well because they can't help but to brush with the major leagues every time there's a problem.

 

[Crayola Coyote]

wow i am speechless

dude for real? black leaders have committed large attrocities against black populaces......... idi amin, charles taylor, mengistsu harim, paul biya, rrobert mugabe, sekou toure, Omar Bashir

again people are people you are somehow suggesting that having a black leader prevents gross abuse of a black populace and this is simply false.........

Those are not black leaders. Charles Taylor was fukk boy. No black leader allows their people to suffer or bow down to a race of people that fukk dogs. Our real leaders are in the ground or died trying to get us out of this system.

 

[Crayola Coyote]

This thread has some very responses. To anyone saying they don't want to vote you're playing into the hand of the powerful, the point is to disenfranchise enough so even the ppl who aren't directly effected throw their hands up and say its pointless. You are part of your community's continued marginalization.
Also blacks need ally's. With having the total population percentage you guys have its impossible (talking only about elections) to get tangible change by rejecting people who mean well and really would be allies. Instead of writing then off write into them and state your POV and and your ideas for real change from a first person perspective. The man is white and 70ish can you blame him for not having a first person POV on black issues? He's the closest thing I've seen too it though.

I can't vote as long as I live in Florida for a mistake I made as a juvenile. As a white man that experience showed me how the system really works. It's meant to beat individuals down and make you think its all hopeless. They don't want certain people to vote and for those who persist its about fracturing that vote. All adds up to the same types of people with the same types of ideas in power.

fukk off, Cac. You can still get a job before a black person that has no crimal record and has 4 college degrees. This system was made for you to thrive as me and other black scarp and fight for the limited resources from your group. Which those resources do not belong to you it belong to us cause our people built the country while yours didn't do shyt. We do not need you. We'll figure it out.

 

[Crayola Coyote]

This is a guy who literally walked with mlk during the march on Washington.

I know I'm going to the get shyt for saying what I'm about to say. However there have been white folks who have fought the good fight and who have proved their sincerity. I think black folks can take some inspiration of the tea party for example who while they have made a few small local gains have not had widespread success because due to their incredible cynicism they are always eating their own over the slightest difference and disagreement instead of seeing the bigger picture.

Here are some dudes who I think proved their sincerity along with Bernie sanders with his actions and their actions during the civil rights movement.
Don't let your cynicism blind you.


1963

April 23, 1963 · Attalla, Alabama
William Lewis Moore, a postman from Baltimore, was shot and killed during a one-man march against segregation. Moore had planned to deliver a letter to the governor of Mississippi urging an end to intolerance.

April 7, 1964 · Cleveland, Ohio
Rev. Bruce Klunderwas among civil rights activists who protested the building of a segregated school by placing their bodies in the way of construction equipment. Klunder was crushed to death when a bulldozer backed over him.

June 21, 1964 · Philadelphia, Mississippi
James Earl Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Henry Schwerner, young civil rights workers, were arrested by a deputy sheriff and then released into the hands of Klansmen who had plotted their murders. They were shot, and their bodies were buried in an earthen dam.

March 11, 1965 · Selma, Alabama

Rev. James Reeb, a Unitarian minister from Boston, was among many white clergymen who joined the Selma marchers after the attack by state troopers at the Edmund Pettus Bridge. Reeb was beaten to death by white men while he walked down a Selma street.

Nope. fukk them all. They will ride to get us free but not ride to make us equal to them. Until the tell their own people to produce justice instead of white supremacy or giving us a better place in the system they can take a hike.

 

[CHL]

this shyt sounds good. And that's all it is, sounding good.

Bernie has a bunch of ideas that are just hot air and have no way of passing legislatively.

Bernie is a real socialist, so no thanks, he's too far left. Won't be getting my support or vote.

He hardly qualifies as a democratic socialist, and is nowhere near being a socialist, breh.

It would be better if he was though

 

[CHL]

If the white male establishment isn't the enemy, then what is

The conservative white male establishment? Seems fairly obvious

 

[loyola llothta]

Breh either you're a cac or you're trolling

Look at the dude that dap him

 

[pimpineasy]

Those are not black leaders. Charles Taylor was fukk boy. No black leader allows their people to suffer or bow down to a race of people that fukk dogs. Our real leaders are in the ground or died trying to get us out of this system.

huh? now you are creating an unrefutable statement..........if i show u a black leader who commits attrocities against black masses you will say he isnt a black leader

again the realization i am coming to is that cats here are more black supremicist while i subscribe to the anti racism school of thought

 

[↓R↑LYB]

The conservative white male establishment? Seems fairly obvious

What's fairly obvious is you think those white liberals are any better. FYI they had slaves in NYC too. Slaves literally built wall street.

Also look up the Draft Riots if you don't think liberal whites are just as evil. They went and burned down an orphanage full of black children.

 

[Dr. Acula]

Nope. fukk them all. They will ride to get us free but not ride to make us equal to them. Until the tell their own people to produce justice instead of white supremacy or giving us a better place in the system they can take a hike.

These are dudes who died for the cause, literally. You don't think its a bit much to say fukk them? They did what was viable and supported black leaders at the time in the context of their history. Don't know if these are the "White liberals" MLK talked about in his letter from Birmingham jail. Not like they can come back to life and rectify faults with the civil rights movements after the fact..given they're dead.

Sometimes I think you dudes are extremely foolish. You confuse passion with blind zealousness.