The senator should be making racism a cornerstone of his stump speech,but instead he’s practically ceding black and Latino voters to Hillary ClintonOn Sunday, I went to Bernie Sanders’s press conference in Washington DC. As a black voter who has “felt the Bern”, or I wanted to see what he was going to enact to reignite his dwindling flame – particularly as I had just seen his slogan co-opted and reduced to “feel the burn” at a DC bus stop promoting check-ups for sexually transmitted diseases.
I left the press event extremely disappointed. Sanders lectured us approximately super-delegates. He obsessed over the opportunity of Hillary Clinton failing to win enough pledged delegates. He spoke of a contested convention,and he recycled his well-worn talking points approximately inequality.Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com