A vote for Bernie is NOT anti-black or pro-racism (updated)

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60. The "Bernie is struggling to connect with Blacks" meme is racial trolling.

And it was designed for that purpose. It's not very clever and like all schemes borne in deception it quickly fell apart and exposed the perpetrators for the partisans that they are. Willing to use past and present racial insensitivity to unfairly accuse Sanders and his supporters of blatant and shameless racism.

Under normal circumstances topics are debated on a level playing field. A discussion can be analyzed from multiple sides without one point of view expressly forbidden.

Candidate A does not resonate Group B. This can be due to three reasons.

1. Candidate A is not communicating message effectively with Group B.
2. Candidate A is communicating but Group B rejects Candidate A's message.
3. Group B is not receiving Candidate A's message effectively.

If the topic is fracking no one claims to be to be suffering another humiliation in a series of centuries long humiliations and discrimination because someone suggests you may not fully understand all the benefits or dangers involved in fracking.

But framing Candidate A inability to resonate with Racial Minority C partisans accuse Candidate A and his supporters of racism for suggesting that Racial Minority C may not fully understand all of Candidates A's positions or policies.

As a POC who have been around the block more than a couple of times I have found that people of any color (especially middle aged to older church ladies) are not always the most informed persons on topics of science and politics.

Recognizing this has much more to do with economic status, access to non-corporate media sources, education level, access to people from outside your culture and geographic area, etc. It is not a racist screed to suggest that persons you disagree with may not have access to all the information that you may have.

To suggest so is in itself racist. POC are not some exotic magic people who are incapable of making mistakes or miscalculations as individuals or as a group. While I happily concede and condemn the racially insensitive comments made about POC regarding political candidates the last thing I want to see happen is a shut down of all debate over fake and phony outrage that actually diminishes occurrences of real racism because somebody wants to score some cheap political points.