What evidence is there for this talking point at all? Bernie talked about Black-specific issues far more than most candidates have, while the candidate that won didn't talk about Black-specific issues at all. In fact, I can't recall any candidate EVER winning due to how much he talked about Black-specific issues. So where are y'all getting this talking point from?
I've brought up a ton of ads, tweets, policies, etc. where Bernie put Black folk from and center. No one else talked about the Black-White wealth gap as much as he did, no one else talked about HBCU's and the Black student loan debt burden as much as he did, no one else talked about Black-White discrepancies in health care as much as he did, no one else talked about police brutality against Black folk as much as he did. No one else had Black folk as central to his campaign (Nina Turner and Briahna Joy Gray).
Meanwhile, Biden gave the Black community....what exactly? He pandered to literal White supremacists more than he pandered to Black folk, bragging how well he had worked across the aisle with racists. He lied about getting arrested to see Mandela, had multiple creepy moments with black kids, talked around his previous opposition to busing, dropped multiple statements where he blamed Black families for underperforming schools, swept his authorship of the crime bill (and low-key his support for ALL the other major crime bills) under the rug, promised nothing to decrease the black-white wealth gap....that's the candidate the establishment gave us. He has done NOTHING for our community and doesn't have to commit to doing anything going forward.
So what could Bernie have done to be more like Biden in that regard?
everybody loves to play revisionist history, but like it or not black ppl overwhelmingly supported the crime bill at the time it was written. Bernie also supported the crime bill.
Biden’s got support by the black establishment bc a lot of his policies were actually written by black ppl. Two year free college and hbcu funding specifically.
no one believed anything Bernie said about hbcus bc he only brought them up when he ran for president, he established zero relationships at hbcus when he’s been in congress for 2 decades.
meanwhile Bidens been visiting hbcu campuses since the 80’s even being a commencement speaker at two of them well before he ran for president. And helped save Delaware state from going under. Bernie never gave a duck about hbcus until he needed hbcus.
Biden wrote and passed the anti discrimination act for access to credit for black ppl. Eliminating workarounds for banks were doing to continue to practice redlining. He also wrote a bill attempting to establish internal affairs departments within all policing bodies in america.
two monumental and tangible things that have helped the black community over the past few decades. And one of the main reasons Biden was chosen to become the vp.
Bernie has produced absolutely nothing, not one thing for the black community.
Bernie also is a huge supporter of including minority serving institutions to get access to hbcu funding. A behind the scenes battle black politicians have been battling for 2 decades. Essentially Hispanics have gotten colleges that serve a lot of Latinos (over 50% of their student) to qualify as minority serving institutions. They have slowly started to take more funding set aside for hbcus by pressuring white democrats to include them in hbcu funding.
Trumps “hbcu” Bill is a perfect example of this, all of that money is not going to hbcus only.
Black politicians have gotten Biden to stop this practice.
I wouldn’t expect the Coli to know about this bc most of thecoli progressives get their information from white liberal online media sources.
That’s why when some of you push Bernies talking points, it’s very disappointing to read. It shows none of you have any actual involvement in the black community whatsoever bc u know nothing about the biggest issues we’re fighting privately.
All of your posts are regurgitated talking point by white progressives thinking they know what’s best for black ppl.
Most of y’all are grown men too. shyts sad to read sometimes
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just don't expect me to vote for the lesser of 2 evils im good
This dude is/was a member of your coalition. Jesus christ.