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"On Friday, former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich announced his support for Sanders, writing that the senator is “leading a movement to reclaim America for the many, not the few. And such a political mobilization—a ‘political revolution,’ as he puts it—is the only means by which we can get the nation back from the moneyed interests that now control so much of our economy and democracy.”
Two days after Reich made his announcement, Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard, D-Hawaii, endorsed Sanders.
The announcement by Gabbard was particularly dramatic, in that the congresswoman stated on national television that she would quit a party leadership post in order to free herself to campaign for Sanders."
I wonder if this tidbit is why Gabbie is down with Bernie.
“Finally, Sen. Sanders also pledges to mandate that all federal grants that are open to state and/or local government are also open to tribes. Bernie is leading by example on this and has already ensured that his own proposals are open. For example, in July low-income solar act funds were made available to state and local governments but also to tribes including Native Alaskans and Native Hawaiians. He understands that there are ongoing issues with inconsistent in eligibility for federal funds. Tribal governments must be treated on par with state and local governments to ensure equal access for federal dollars.”
The Blanking out of indigenous Americans continues.
"The reality: Hawaii is—wait for it—the least white state (at about one-quarter of the population) in the union. Half of all Hawaiians are Asian American, and over 10 percent are Native. Alaska, where one-third of the people are Native, is the sixth least white state, while Washington is about average in terms of percentage, and ranks 23rd out of 50 on that front.
These media blunders were inexcusable from a fact-checking perspective. But they also demonstrate just how lazy many commentators are. There exists an established narrative—Hillary does better among non-white voters than does Bernie—and too many pundits simply shoehorn new developments into that narrative, even when they don’t fit. Hence: #BernieMadeMeWhite.
What #BernieMadeMeWhite and the media coverage it lampoons really highlights is the reality that if you are neither white nor black the media, and even many public figures and activists, don’t understand how to talk about you—if they see you at all.
As the photo at the top of this post indicates, the largest groups (in terms of the percentage of their state’s population) who were wholly and collectively erased by the media coverage of the Pacific caucuses were native Hawaiians and Alaskans, as well as the Asian-Americans of Hawaii."
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