Ta-Nehisi Coates goes on to write how nonsensical it is that Bernie Sanders is saying he won’t support something unlikely to pass. A radical revolutionary enjoys divisive and hard to pass policies as long as they are just.
Sanders’s proposal for single-payer health care, Paul Krugman asks, “Is there any realistic prospect that a drastic overhaul could be enacted any time soon—say, in the next eight years? No.”
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Unfortunately, Sanders’s radicalism has failed in the ancient fight against white supremacy.
Coates then elaborates on just how destructive Bernie Sanders position is:
Sanders should be directly confronted and asked why his political imagination is so active against plutocracy, but so limited against white supremacy. Jim Crow and its legacy were not merely problems of disproportionate poverty. Why should black voters support a candidate who does not recognize this?
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if this is the candidate of the radical left—then expect white supremacy in America to endure well beyond our lifetimes and lifetimes of our children.
How seriously does Bernie Sanders take leading black intellectuals?
My hope was to talk to Sanders directly, before writing this article. I reached out repeatedly to his campaign over the past three days. The Sanders campaign did not respond.
Coates continued his discussion on Twitter with Brian Beutler, with Coates re-tweeting Beutler’s analysis.
What do Beutler and Coates mean when they say reparations and justice for black people would completely shatter apart Bernie’s coalition of liberal whites?