2016 Postmortem

who writes powerfully about continued racism in this country, endorsed Sanders, just as an example that his message did appeal to people who are focused on the issues that you are. You are right, black people didn't come out for him. The media didn't help him with name recognition, even when he was doing what no politician had previously been able to do, and the DNC establishment and their propaganda wing did everything in their power to suppress exposure to Sanders in the black community by labeling him the old white guy who has support among white male voters, trying to tear down his civil rights record, and whatever else they could do to get people to reject him out of hand. And assuming that a large population of black people didn't go beyond that rhetoric is not a condescension. I never bothered to look at Ted Cruz's policies. I never bothered to look at Trump's. If people I trust are already painting a picture of these people that fits with my expectations I'm not very likely to spend my limited bandwidth to follow up just to make sure.

That said, I'm sure that his messaging failed to resonate in communities of color. I'm not trying to say we shouldn't look at where it was unsuccessful. But I don't get when you take his policies that would directly help people of color to task, why you were totally on board Clinton's train. That shit, buying her empty rhetoric to the black community over the years, even after some of the harmful shit she's done, ala "super predators," tacit or direct support of institutions that have absolutely exploited people of color, from for profit prisons to a wall street that destroyed lives with sub-prime loans, makes no effing sense to me. I would prefer to be helped to understand, rather than sent on a vision quest without a guide, but if you aren't interested in wasting more time with me, that's fine.