You need to change your premise.

They have. They have protested Republican candidates, as well as another Dem candidate (O’Malley) and tried to at a Clinton appearance but were barred from entrance.

BINGO!

The way Sanders’ supporters have reacted to this reminds me of Lena Dunham’s supporters. Her supporters made her issues with race 100x worse with their blind, racist defenses of her. It’s the same with Sanders. After the Seattle interruption, he responded pretty well, but his supporters are really fucking it up for…

Black people make up 6% of the population in California so the idea the blaming 6% for a loss is asinine.

They had spoken out at a previous appearance and had not gotten a response. They had also staged a similar protest at an O’Malley appearance, and O’Malley had updated his positions and addressed more issues on social justice and police reform in response.

Fuck that noise. How fucking dare you suggest that black people in California got that piece of shit passed.

Are you aware that the New Deal excluded blacks initially? Like Medicare, social security and the housing programs after WWII? Socialist policies are not enough, they certainly have not been in the past.

Maybe its the wrong reflex, because maybe its condescending, but my first instinct when a black person or a queer person or frankly ANY underrepresented and under-privileged member of society speaks up, no matter how rabid, I listen. Does that mean I probably end up giving people more than is their due? Maybe. It…

It’s the same thing that happened when Prop. 8 passed in California.

That’s a good point about the Socialist lens. Politicians tend to get so caught up in their personal ideology that they interpret everything in terms of that cause. When your only tool is a sickle and hammer, every problem looks like a Socialist nail.

I always think, what if there was an Anarchist party (maybe there is, I’m sure I’ll be corrected in a minute) and some supporter said “Hey, you guys, stop with the insurgency and agitation - we should all rally behind this one guy.”

Why is it so fucking difficult for white people to understand how condescending it is to think their ostensibly progressive politics inures them from issues of race?

Thank you. This is White Privilege at its finest. White liberal also used to yell at MLK Jr. and others for criticizing LBJ. Before that, they yelled at black leaders who criticized FDR. Going back further than that, they mocked Frederick Douglass for being highly critical of Lincoln. Each time, the sentiment is the…

This is a pretty typical whiney, white liberal response. The history of progressive politics is filled with dissenting allies, it’s what makes the left stronger than the right: we can stand to hear a little constructive criticism. Think of Victoria Woodhull and Karl Marx.

I love Bernie Sanders BUT Talib Kweli is right. Bernie Sanders needs to take these issues seriously and speak honestly and frankly directly to the people who are calling for him to step up.

I was kinda more pissed at the White liberals who immediately denounced the entire moment and basically “stay in your line”-d black people. Bernie Sanders hired a woman called Symone Sanders two weeks before the event - a black woman - and made racial equality a part of his main platform.

When I was younger and less inclined to stand up for myself, I allowed a boyfriend to shame me into daily shaving. I hated it, my skin hated it, and the boyfriend bitched about my stubble all the time. He insisted I try waxing but we were both broke as fuck so we got a home waxing kit and made a go at it with zero…

I’m sub 28 and I don’t really give a shit! A bit of a trim occasionally, and maybe neaten the bikini line a little if I’m in a bikini. But recently even that’s been a little lazy. I figure people who are offended by pubes are people I want to punish by exposing them.

Why isn’t more being made out of the fact that at the debate Trump basically admitted he buys politicians?