2016 Postmortem

things, they wouldn't be listened to. She outright had a protestor thrown out of her gathering. How did she do things better? Just to be clear--and this is important--me not understanding how you look at these things, and trying to bring my own sense of the facts to the table, is not me trying to pound an idea into YOUR head, it is trying to understand what I'm missing. I'm just saying, I can understand how infuriating it must be when people think they are going to "talk to" you and not with you, and I don't want that to be misconstrued.

It seems unreasonable for you to shield a whole media hit-job by saying that we can't call it that and point out the facts because that would make us(whatever our color) overly sensitive whitesplainers. That is why it was such a brilliant tactic I guess...it makes fighting against it make you look like you are a self declared martyr in the foreground of actual racism. I mean, if I take a comment to task are you lumping me in that category? Am I all of a sudden on par with the worst of us?

There is no reason to defend racism within our ranks. There is no reason to support those messages or bad behavior, and every reason to condemn it. People did. Sanders and his pr team did early on. Not adequately? Almost certainly, but could they have possibly done it adequately? This was the hit-piece the establishment was looking for...had it been 3 people, we would have seen those 3 people over and over from every angle, all the way up to the convention.