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Bernie might have given his slightly earlier, but by the same token BLM never gave him a chance. They didn't ask to meet with him or his campaign(Bernie would gladly have agreed), they didn't actually say what they wanted from him, they acted like he didn't care about racist killings by police(something a long-time civil rights organizer and Jesse Jackson supporter would automatically be outraged by) and they treated him like he was worse on race than any other candidate.
He at least listened to what the women had to say, even though they had no reason to single him out for attack. He then appointed a proud African American woman as his campaign spokesman, repeatedly adjusted his message to include AA concerns, and repeatedly met with BLM when they finally tried dialog with him.
He never deserved the hate and Hillary never showed any deeper concern about civil rights than Bernie had. She had also spent much of the Eighties building the Democratic Leadership Council, a group whose main objective was to get the Democratic Party to leave people of color out in the cold, and was just fine in the Nineties with the party's decision to accept the Republican narrative that crime, drub abuse, out-of-wedlock births and welfare fraud were mainly "black things"
in reality, all of those were and are mainly white things).
That's what makes the "Hillary cares and Bernie doesn't" thing so maddening...it was and IS a total lie.
Bernie has his flaws, but as a person of the left, indifference to racism was never going to be one of those things.
(And the attitude those women had was that Bernie was evil, so how much was he obligated to take from them? He let them keep the mic. How much more could be asked?
Hillary could have won without smearing Bernie on that.
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