2016 Postmortem

Let's get the garbage out of the way first.

You're "amused?" Did you read my post or did your Bernie hate just go into high gear before you got that far? I said right off the bat that I had no more use for white Bernie supporters telling black people what they are supposed to think than I have for YOU telling ME what I am supposed to think.

Next, how pathetic is it that you have to resort to JPR to come up with a caricature of a Bernie supporter? JPR started with a miniscule fraction of banned DU members, a large swath of whom were right wing posers and the remainder of which were people so stupid that they fell for that fraud Stein and worshipped at the feet of clowns like Greenwald and Assange. It was NEVER majority Bernie supporters and now it is overwhelmingly pure freepers spreading divisive bullshit that gets regurgitated here on DU as a way of attacking liberals. Of course, that's where you go because, here on DU, you can't find spit to back you up.

Next, Bernie made comments about primary-ing Obama because he disagreed with POLICIES and wanted to move him back to the left. This might come as a shock to you, but black people didn't line up behind Obama because he looked like us. We supported him on policies we liked and we opposed him on policies we didn't and at the end of the day we voted for him because the goods outweighed the bads (which - combined with the fact that I'm not a two-year old - is why I worked on Hillary's behalf on my own dime after the primary) AND we came out for him in record numbers because of the quality, character, and courage of the man.

Next, I abhorred the treatment of Lewis. On one hand, his "didn't see" comment was bogus (and he apologized for making it) but there are people in this world who paid a price that only a handful of living people have paid and they can damn well say anything they want as far as I am concerned and John Lewis is one of those people. Of course, while Hillary's team was busy playing politics with what happened there were people like Harold Middlebrooks (btw, if you don't know who he is, you don't know anything about the civil rights movement or about Dr. King) out campaigning for Bernie. We don't all look alike. We don't all think alike.

Is there anything else that you want to lecture me about?

Is there anything else that amuses you?