re: #94 HappyWarrior

Many Sanders supporters believed his push to regulate Wall Street and solve economic inequality would resonate with minority voters. It didn’t because minority voters know that liberal policies alone won’t reverse decades of racial inequalities. They have been loyal members of liberal unions where white Democrats received plush jobs, even if they were no more qualified than their black colleagues. They’ve seen the same thing in liberal Hollywood and the supposedly liberal world of the media, whose top ranks remain mostly white

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Yeah, that Politico article has a lot of good stuff in it. But I think it reiterates a lot of the same points a very good Kos diary made about the appeal of Clinton to black voters that was written back in February. Not much has changed, though I think the internal viewpoints of minority communities as a whole needs to be emphasized more—-there’s been some improvement in the black community which they KNOW they’ll get from a Clinton as they knew they got from the Obama community. I just don’t think a lot of Sanders supporters appreciate that that black voters, particularly older ones, have long memories of white politicians promising the moon and then turning around giving it all to the white constituents. The Clintons “duped” the black community by actually delivering solid economic gains for a larger segment of the black community than lost out through welfare reform. That’s more than they got from other politicians.