I don't get this whole PoC discussion...

[John Poet]

75. It's NOT that they are "not interested"---

Much as I Posted elsewhere:

POC don't generally give the same level of "importance" to the various economic inequality issues taken up by Bernie Sanders that white liberals do--- BECAUSE they are more worried about getting home at night without getting SHOT by police, or about their children getting home safe at night without being arrested or SHOT by police-- and when you are feeling that kind of threat upon your very life, and the lives of those you love, by the very institutions of government, then it is very understandably hard for you to get too excited about some politician who says he wants to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour, or make your health insurance 'better', or make sure billionaires pay their fair share of taxes-- you're more interested in knowing "what are you going to do to keep cops from killing me or my kids on the way home from the grocery store?"

That's one of the major concepts I took out of the long discussion here over the #BlackLivesMatter protests. I think that just about cuts-to-the-chase.

It doesn't matter if you're black or white: everyone's "number one issue" is STAYING ALIVE, and people of color have much more reason to be fearful, when it comes to staying alive. This is because of 'institutionalized racism', the institution in this case being The Police.

Every other issue is secondary to that one. Since white people don't have as much to worry about in that regard, they tend to forget about it-- and place their primary importance among any of the lessor issues you are bringing up here.

It is true that Bernie has sought to address that, but I'm not so sure it's been getting through to the country at large, as of yet.