2016 Postmortem

That was my problem. I supported Bernie. I was with him and was waiting for him to apply something to his policy for my demo. Once seattle happened I had to give it up. I have links where you can see me go from yay bernie to oh fucking please.

The response to accusations of tonedeafness were met with replies of 'you people need us to educate you! Bernie is almost mlk jr.!! Let us flood you with bernie=mlk memes'.
While y'all worried about how unfair everybody was to Bernie, we were the actual ones that this nation had been unfair to. He became the only important person, nothing we said mattered.

Honestly, my suggestion is to learn from this and not take the black demo for granted. Hillary got her fair share of shit thrown at her, much more than he did. But she never whined. She never wavered. She still defended us. She came to us, did not expect us to come to her. That is why black folks stood by her. We have to face scrutiny and be strong and not whine. Nobody floods the airwaves in defense of us. We deal with demonization and still forgive our demonizers. As does she.

Sometimes when we defend people from every little slight we become more of a problem than the little slights were. White progressives need to learn to pick their battles. Life is fucking unfair. Black people know this more than most. So, to come to us and whine about how they are viewed because of how some of them were treating us takes alot of big ass cojones. We were the ones being harassed by them, but they are the ones whining to us about being seen as harassers. Instead of telling the ones who were making them look bad to stfu, they decided to bother us about painting them all in the same light, and so became the exact type of person that we were complaining about in the first place.

Find somebody else to head your movement. We are not going to follow your lead if he is leading. Find somebody with a history that is tied to minority communities, someone who we can all like. It will not be him.