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Bernie's base of support really doesn't matter any more.
Muhahaha! He has 46% of the pledged delegates, was mocked as someone who would struggle to even win Vermont as his single state, and you keep deluding yourself that the supporters of a candidate who has more campaign contributors than any other politician in US history doesnt matter.
The OP is just rambling as usual. Every news outlet have been mocking and dismissed Sanders from day 1. Daily Beast is no excpetion. It is owned by IAC corporation, where Chelsea Clinton is on the board of directors.
Sanders is winning over Hillary among minorities under 35. If you look at net favorability ratings among all minorities, Sanders does exceptionally well, very few dislike him, but many also answer dont know, because they dont know him and voted for Hillary because they know her.
I do not believe that Bernie would be a racist. He comes from a very white part of the country. I never really heard of him before he entered the race.
When it comes right down to it, it doesn't matter what gender, race or religion is behind a vote, because they all count the same. Bernie is doing very well when it comes to bringing in votes. I don't know why this matters unless it is a feeble attempt to imply Bernie is a racist. We all know the BUZZ word "racist" is used in the absence of something creditable.
Just because he generally doesn't pander to minorities does not mean that any of his policies have some kind of malicious intent. He believes that system is inherently rigged against all working people, and that economics plays a large role in racial and gender inequity.
Back in 2006, the Vermont Partnership for Fairness and Diversity, a Brattleboro-area civil rights organization, hosted a Candidate Night. The race for the open U.S. Senate seat between Bernie Sanders and Richard Tarrant, a Republican and one of the wealthiest people in the state, had grown increasingly acrimonious.
The audience of African-American activists and other Vermonters of color should have been a friendly one for the socialist congressman.
Instead, remembers Curtiss Reed Jr., the executive director of the group, it became something of a showdown. Sanders “was just really dismissive of anything that had to do with race and racism, saying that they didn’t have anything to do with the issues of income inequality,” Reed told The Daily Beast.
I lived in Brattleboro for a while in the '80s. There were like 3 black people in the town. One was a friend of mine from Uganda. The other two were drug dealers.
Kudos to Bernie for not kowtowing to ethnocentric black activists or allow them to highjack his message.
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