She actually IS a Tea Party loon. Seriously, I’m not making that up. She’s a former rightwing extremist who actively campaigned for Sarah goddamned Palin. That’s the sort of candidate she will endorse.

Hell, Sanders TRIED to talk to them right there on stage at the rally but they wouldn’t stop screaming or let him anywhere near the microphone. This whole idiotic display was just political theater from people who have no interest in actually starting a conversation, just being the most outraged person in the room.

This is the most important sentence in the article. They kept saying it was about having a conversation, but never actually tried to just talk to Sanders. And then they got pissed when another activist took the radical step of just asking him to chat. It’s the difference between trying to get headlines, and trying to…

Sanders wasn’t really seen as all that serious a candidate until Black Lives Matter blew him up, causing white progressives all over the country to take notice, take umbrage, and inevitably take his side.

The same evidence he has for proclaiming the Sanders fiasco a “big success” for the BLM movement, as opposed to the shark-jumping moment everyone here in reality regards it as.

Yep. She is not helping BLM. Anybody who thinks she is is delusional.

Yes, this is a totally made up, nonsensical, non-factual claim. The weird thing is that its completely irrelevant to the main points Howard was trying ot make in the article. He didn’t need to say this — the rest of the article would still have been just fine. That he felt he could just flippantly throw out some total…

No, you are very very right—their priorities are mixed up, they don’t have a clear mission and those protesters who interrupted Sanders protested a man who was a freedom rider during the civil rights movement. Who DOES that???!

I read that line and almost had a stroke. The level of insanity needed to write and believe that is mind boggling.

That’s what I came here to say. Sanders was consistently drawing larger crowds than some BLM rallies (he certainly did in my city), so it could be argued, he blew them up.

“Sanders wasn’t really seen as all that serious a candidate until Black Lives Matter blew him up”

I certainly support the BLM movement, but she’s a vile asshole who is no different than tea party loons.

this sentence is everything:

What is colossally stupid is the number of people who criticize Sanders’s ideas (and Hamilton’s defense of them) without offering up ideas as to what Sanders/other candidates SHOULD do. It’s like you’re saying “Here’s a list of all this racist shit that’s wrong with this country!” And Sanders is like “OK, here is what…

Seems like a very all-or-nothing take. If Bernie can’t fix the problem 100%, on the day he takes office, then he’s ripe for criticism because he hasn’t done enough and won’t do enough in the future? Not really a fan of that analysis.

Question for you Greg (completely earnest and non-trolling): What, if any, attempts have been made to engage on a one-on-one or organization-to-organization (and yeah, I know Black Lives Matter isn’t an “organization” in that sense, but it’s still comprised of groups of people with similar policy objectives) level…

You’re actually defending this?! He walked with MLK for gods sake. There were so many better targets and they pick him? So yeah, Sanders can’t save black people and should no longer try.

“as well-meant as they are, they don’t address the fact that even if he wins, there’s still going to be racism and everything that comes with it”

Just like as well-meaning as this article is, Greg, it doesn’t address the fact that even if he, or any Democrat, no matter how progressive, wins, they’re going to be dealing…

You’re right. Bernie Sanders can’t save black people. And you don’t need to worry about it. Hillary is going to be president and maintain the same center-right politics that have been in place for 8 years. Welcome to America.

Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good.