Yes I may have told Jeff Weaver on FB his pictures of America loving Bernie looked rather white, and that I hoped they learned lessons about the South and that they need to stop doing the progressive version of I have Black friends and I did so much for you people 50 yrs ago.
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This may as well be 2015. They didn’t listen then. They lost. They aren’t listening now.
She’s not smearing anyone. She just gave you the single most reason Bernie lost the primary. He did not engage voters in the south predominantly African Americans. She’s saying engage and build relationships.
and I’m not about to have a who did more volunteer work for bernie with some fragile ass white man on twitter mad cause I criticized another white man who has access and power and is a continued advisor and friend to a third white man.
Let me say this, though, - random ass people on Twitter do not speak for Bernie or even his inner circle. I can say with 100% certainty that Bernie has grown on all of this a great deal.
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So. If that inner circle come campaign time is still majority white men there will be the same problems. There is a lot that has been ignored by the campaign and has atoned for. Rallies ain’t organizing and allowing toxic white organizers to stay in these spaces is a prob.
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It’s also not just BERNIE and his inner circle. This isn’t a traditional campaign experience. Bernie’s success was in spite of his “inner circle” and the random white People don’t speak for him is a scapegoat for the pervasive problem of white fragility in progressive spaces.
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I kind of agree, but I was speaking more of this account you were debating with. For many complex reasons, I refuse to allow random Twitter accounts to dictate how I feel about a campaign. That's a dangerous, slippery slope. I'll only hold real people accountable at this point.
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