{"id":49995,"date":"2016-06-09T11:54:38","date_gmt":"2016-06-09T15:54:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=49995"},"modified":"2016-06-09T11:54:38","modified_gmt":"2016-06-09T15:54:38","slug":"how-bernie-sanders-exposed-the-democrats-racial-rift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2016\/06\/how-bernie-sanders-exposed-the-democrats-racial-rift\/","title":{"rendered":"How Bernie Sanders Exposed the Democrats\u2019 Racial Rift"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This puts a good point on it. But not only did the Sanders campaign downplay the historic accomplishments of the first Black president, hey downplayed all the accomplishments of the millions of Black voters that supported him and other Democrats in their efforts. Sanders may as well have pointed at Blacks and said “You ran twice as fast and got half as far. Not good enough.” -TRP<\/p>\n

Many white Democratic voters missed the sentiment shared among black Obama voters in 2008 that, once again, the \u201cfirst black\u201d was being handed a seemingly impossible task\u2014two ground wars, a collapsing economy, a record deficit\u2014and if he wasn\u2019t able to perform a miracle, it would not only be his failure, but that of black people in general. To downplay what he has been able to achieve despite the obstacles, which also included an unprecedented level of obstruction from the GOP, confirms a fear shared by many people of color\u2014Democratic or otherwise\u2014that no matter what they achieve, it will never be enough. Sanders and Susan Sarandon may sincerely believe things are so awful only a revolution can heal the country\u2019s ills. But their overwrought rhetoric, and no more than lukewarm support of Obama\u2019s accomplishments, taps into that deeply-held frustration among minorities.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s why, despite what looks like intractable problems to white Democrats, minority voters are more optimistic about the future than their white counterparts. That Obama was able to become president and<\/i> get stuff done is an enormous source of not only pride, but hope. The Kaiser Family Foundation found that more than half of young black and Latinos believe their lives will be better than their parents, compared with less than a third of young white people. On many measures, black people have seen much worse days\u2014the black unemployment rate neared 17 percent at the height of the Great Recession and is less than half that now\u2014even as they continue fighting decades-long struggles. Things aren\u2019t perfect, but the progress that has occurred during the Obama era isn\u2019t something they want ignored or downplayed. Given that reality, why would they believe in the need for a revolution?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Read Full Article: How Bernie Sanders Exposed the Democrats\u2019 Racial Rift – POLITICO Magazine<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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This puts a good point on it. But not only did the Sanders campaign downplay the historic accomplishments of the first Black president, hey downplayed all the accomplishments of the millions of Black voters that supported him and other Democrats in their efforts. Sanders may as well have pointed at Blacks and said “You ran…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50000,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1628,22],"tags":[1887,44,42,737],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49995"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49995"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50003,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49995\/revisions\/50003"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}