It sort of worries me that we all have an apocalyptic desire in us, even while I’m reading these comments thinking about a part of me thinks: “sweet”

That statement was certainly inaccurate. At first I thought he was implying that Sanders wasn’t viewed as a serious candidate among black voters until BLM got involved, as that would have made more sense. According to the polls I saw a couple months ago, Sanders was attracting less than 4% of the black vote. I saw him…

As always, Greg, so thorough and well-written. I have been watching this whole thing go down on Twitter over the past week and look...

The article seems to claim Bernie was a nobody before this. No, he might be a “fringe” candidate due to his “radical ideas” (meaning good ideas), but he was still known. The Black Lives Matters attacks on Bernie were not good for him. It made it seem like he was weak, unable to control his own rallies, image or…

I’m one of those Lefty self-hating whitey types.

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…

Yeah if you don’t agree with people doing idiotic counterproductive things you’re a bad ally! I think you guys got this yourself, you don’t need this white devil helping.

I think he would prefer zero attention to this attention. He is trying to focus his campaign on policy, and he gets notice as part of this freakshow? And you think this is a good thing for him? SMDH This is why we can’t have nice things.

...lots of aggrieved young people marching, directionless, without any plan or power to affect change. Lots of emotion, but no policy, some fossils scolded.

The protest at Bernie Sanders was not an “unqualified success”

Love ya Greg, but you and I know that white liberals tippy-toe around this issue and don’t do much actual, substantial criticism of anything in the BLM. The people dogging on Mckissen are not white, well-to-do liberals who themselves live in the Burbs (or in downtown lofts) and went to pricey libruhl arts schools. I’m…

Anytime you writers would like to accept the fact that Bernie was already a serious candidate would be alright with me. It’s not as though he wasn’t already getting some huge (record breaking even?) turnouts at his campaign rallies. It’s not as though he isn’t the most sane candidate in the running. It’s not as though…

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.

What clout? Who are the “leaders” accountable to? How are their strategies in line with the materiel interests of working class Black folks, who consistently show economic concerns - which you claim “leftier than lefty types” only give a shit about? Where’s the recall election for electd officials who don’t hold the…

The very next day, Sanders dropped a detailed racial-justice package on his website, appearing to concede to Black Lives Matter and also providing a written document that identified various effects of this country’s systemic, ongoing racism and offered the seeds of a plan to undo it.

“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.”

I said on Gawker’s article about the BLM org interrupting Bernie Sanders that it was more about their egos than any effective strategy plan. This shows I was on the right track.

The idea that Bernie Sanders was some unknown candidate who had no momentum or recognition at all until last week is so laughably ludicrous.

I know that they’ve turned off their only ally, white liberals are super fucking pissed at BLM for their misplaced rage. I see it on Facebook and in conversations with my friends and family - it is a reality good or bad. Do I think they should behave? No. Do I think they need to realize who they’re friends are? Yes.

this sentence is everything: