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Bernie is the new Joe is the new Dick.
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Well said Charles. And the enthusiasm for Donald Trump is but the newest and most glaring example of where racist ideology overrides material self-interest.
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Multiple Mudede columns that are spot on? I can hardly believe it. Keep this up!
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Charles, isn't it up to the voter, b or w, to determine the best economic policy for themselves rather that you proclaiming which policy is best for a voter's race?
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I would love if Bernie picked Cory Booker as his running mate!
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Every election is about white people.
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Completely agree with your points about racism, Dixicrats, etc. etc. But seriously this was not what the BLM shout down was about. What. On. Earth. Is a president supposed to do about people's reptile-brain-driven racism? The BLM reps couldn't even let the man answer the questions they themselves put to him. They shouted him down. His point about Obamacare was spot. On. Bernie Sanders pushed for provisions for community-based health care, so that low-income people around the country would have options. Our constitutional-professor-President couldn't even bring himself to fight for The Public Option when the mass of people wanted it and polls proved it. Sorry, the BLM reps at Netroots Nation just wanted to scream at someone, and they should have been screaming at anyone but Sanders ....
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@4 absolutely not. for example, it's in a vast majority of people's best interest to vote against environmental regulation. You would benefit, I would benefit. Some people would suffer today (probably the poorest of people in 3rd-world countries, but they don't count) and presumably large numbers of people would suffer later. But we would benefit today!
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As Steve Potter said on Facebook: "Good point Mr. Mudede. But it is upsetting that in a race between fifteen racist, xenophobic Republican nominees, one corporate cronie democrat and one actual progressive who was one of only two white liberal politicians to have endorsed Jesse Jackson for president, the only one in the race with any serious credentials as a civil rights activist (even if they are from quite some time ago), it is Bernie who is now getting the "problem with black and Latino voters" media spin. A private meeting explaining their concern that he was not talking as much as he should be about civil rights in the present instead of an ambush protest during a speech would have been a smart approach. If you treat your friends like enemies you wind up without friends by and by."
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Never a big fan of the "activists" of the #BLM movement. Almost glad to see them embarrass themselves at Netroots Nation.
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In regards to bottom-up systemic change, I don’t see how you address structural racism without first stopping the narrative that unregulated greed is a moral right. Poor and middle class socially conservative whites have been made to fear everything and everyone that isn't them, all so that a tiny percentage of the population could pull the wool over their eyes and make them vote against supporting the pro-labor policies and progressive tax systems that would actually benefit them. The fear is laced with the illusion that maybe they, or someone like them, will get a piece of the pie and every “other” is trying to take it. So until you’re able to break through that message and say “look at where we’re at, you’re still poor, life is harder, this is real” how do you begin to address the fear machine that stokes the hate?

As for top-down systemic change, I honestly think that those focused on mass profit and quarterly growth no longer care about race or creed of the communities they dominate. They’re too busy tallying the numbers and keeping people in poverty so that labor is inexpensive and desperate.
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See #12. To tie it back, I actually think Bernie Sanders will do a good job of waking people up regardless of if he wins or not and that will help with structural racism.
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"Bernie Sanders needs to include structural racism in his campaign, which has so far focused like a laser beam on economic justice. He is also seen by some as not really down with black Americans, and his "standoff with #BlackLivesMatters"

It's racist to demand that one racial group in America dominate all discussions about race in America and all issues are filtered through their needs. Other races are only allowed voices if they are in agreement and subservient to black activists. Furthermore, it is rich of Charles (like Larry Miz Jr) to cry about racism given the very different and racist ways they wrote about the Charleston attack vs. the Kosher Market attack in Paris. The former was described as racial terrorism against blacks by a white racist which shows white supremacy is still a problem. The Kosher attack was a few folks dying but lets move on. Somehow the black writers who make race an issue in every circumstance forgot to mention the perpetrators race, although I would have known given the way they wrote about it- it was obvious where their sympathies were, and it wasn't the murdered Jews. The Kosher Market attack was a pattern of black on Jewish hate crimes and the way black writers and activists, including Charles, wrote about it shows that black leftists have serious problems with how they treat other races. It's horrifying how oblivious Mudede is to his own racism, and to other black activists racism, and how this will hamper racial relations until they deal with it and up their game.
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@8: In other words, you object to your fellow citizens choosing the candidate they see fit if it doesn't suit your political dispostions? No matter how justified your cause may be?

This is a democracy. I suggest you least tweak your elitist outlook to meet the constitutional and fundamental pluralistic strengths of our society - and work for the candidates you want instead of bashing voters for their choices.
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@14: Stop pretending to speak for the Jews, you fascist ninny-hammer.
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I think Climate Change activists should go interrupt the next #BlacklivesMatter interruption of somebody. Because, you know, just standing up and screaming at random people merely because there is an audience gathered somewhere is now a legitimate tactic. How could anyone complain? And the climate change activist could argue that their case is much more important.

And then in the middle of the climate change activist interrupting the #blacklivesmatter interruption a third women rights activist activist could interrupt that... and so on and so on.
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#7 the BLM action at netroots smells like a Clinton dirty trick to divide and conquer opposition to her coronation. I believe Sanders is down with civil rights and racial inequity. I also think he believes that initiating policies that create a fairer and better deal for all Americans will go a ways, not all the way but some of the ways to eliminating racial disparities in education, health care, income, and career opportunities.

Getting the economic policies in place first could then make it easier to grapple with the more difficult institutional racial inequities.

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