2016 Postmortem

I don't mean to label you personally, i guess I say you when I mean 'people'. It offends me that Bernie never really seemed to like Obama, we like folks who like the people we like.
Honestly? Bernie never really had a chance in getting the majority of the black vote from the day he said Obama should be primaried. Many of us likely voters of color were pissed the fuck off. Offended. Hurt our feelings. We only got the one black persident in the history of america, and this white dude who says he is on the left wanted him primaried and weakened for the general. No sense of history, no credit given to our president. I know people will say that we should not have been personally offended. But we were. Obama being president has been the best thing for black role models since MLK. Bernie never recognized how much psycological benefit it was for us to have him. Pissing us off never mattered. He likes to make waves, but when he does so in a way that alienates entire demographics, he cannot get mad if they dont give him a chance later.
Evdn if all those things he wanted would have benefitted us, we knew that hers would benefit us just as much if not more. Her plans were simply more realistic. Yes, incremental! Black folks aint nevergot everything all at once, we work for years at a time just to get the right to own ourselves, to go to school with you, to vote... Incremental got us to where we are today and it's a sight better for me than for my grandma. She scrubbed floors and cleaned house, got raped by her empolyer and better not say shit about it neither, better just tuck her chin in, not sass nobody, and step off the sidewalk when white folks was walking along, stand in the mud until they pass. I dont do that. I would never have to. People suffered that for me so I dont have to.

What I am saying is basically; don't get so stuck on ideology to the point where you do not understand people. She understood people. He understood ideas. People vote.