Those who argue (against the voices of such as Cornel West I might add) that Bernie Sanders has a racial obtuseness problem or worse are almost certainly playing with peoples’ minds, dizzying the partridge, as they say in Spanish. Sanders doesn’t have a problem vis a vis the black community that Hillary doesn’t have ten or a hundred times over. Let us all recall that she and her husband both promoted legislation that was specifically designed to both play the race card, buy off the white rural male vote (aka Bubba) by redirecting billions of dollars in federal funds from serving chronically depressed and distressed impoverished black and minority communities and alchemizing it into 100,000 new police jobs, prison jobs, new prisons, police gear and accoutrements, etc: a dastardly and predatory solution to a problem for which African Americans and other vulnerable, generally impoverished, communities bore no determining responsibility, i.e. the problem of outsourcing and offshoring that robbed working class jobs from all the ethnic and white communities to begin with. President Clinton contributed rollingly (and was paid royally) for inaugurating a new era of superoutsourcing, per the dictates of his Wall Street patrons: another nail in the economic coffin of the black community, which was then dispatched for additional political and economic profit by having its youth sent to jails at unprecedented (but entirely preventable) levels and with concomitant celerity. Bill Clinton’s second term, and by extension his wife’s ongoing political future, was bought at the cost of the lost liberty of hundreds of thousands of black, minority, and other impoverished American youth, but that cost and that payment were always externalities from which he, like all presidents, would always remain profitably immune.
Those who argue (against the voices of such as Cornel West I might add) that Bernie Sanders has a racial obtuseness problem or worse are almost certainly playing with peoples’ minds, dizzying the partridge, as they say in Spanish. Sanders doesn’t have a problem vis a vis the black community that Hillary doesn’t have ten or a hundred times over. Let us all recall that she and her husband both promoted legislation that was specifically designed to both play the race card, buy off the white rural male vote (aka Bubba) by redirecting billions of dollars in federal funds from serving chronically depressed and distressed impoverished black and minority communities and alchemizing it into 100,000 new police jobs, prison jobs, new prisons, police gear and accoutrements, etc: a dastardly and predatory solution to a problem for which African Americans and other vulnerable, generally impoverished, communities bore no determining responsibility, i.e. the problem of outsourcing and offshoring that robbed working class jobs from all the ethnic and white communities to begin with. President Clinton contributed rollingly (and was paid royally) for inaugurating a new era of superoutsourcing, per the dictates of his Wall Street patrons: another nail in the economic coffin of the black community, which was then dispatched for additional political and economic profit by having its youth sent to jails at unprecedented (but entirely preventable) levels and with concomitant celerity. Bill Clinton’s second term, and by extension his wife’s ongoing political future, was bought at the cost of the lost liberty of hundreds of thousands of black, minority, and other impoverished American youth, but that cost and that payment were always externalities from which he, like all presidents, would always remain profitably immune.