Ya know, pretty much every Hillary Clinton supporter on this site knows how I felt about these Hillary Clinton comments from 2008.
There was just an AP article posted that found how Senator Obama's support among working - hardworking Americans, white Americans is weakening again, and whites in both states who had not completed college were supporting me. And in independents, I was running even with him. And I have a much broader base to build a winning coalition on.
That comment was “a red line” for me even when it came to the 2016 primaries. You can look it up.
I viewed Bernie Sanders’ comments at an Our Revolution rally in Boston, Massachusetts a few weeks ago in a similar vein:
“Some people think that the people who voted for Trump are racists and sexists and homophobes and deplorable folks. I don't agree, because I've been there. Let me tell you something else some of you might not agree with, it wasn't that Donald Trump won the election, it was that the Democratic Party lost the election," Sanders said while speaking at an Our Revolution rally in Boston with fellow Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.).
Sanders said this in spite of all the available data since god-knows-when that says otherwise.
As dallasdave said in subir’s thread yesterday about how and why many of us reacted to those Sanders’ comments:
What she and others heard in that statement of Sanders’, plus an aggregate of a few other statements he’s made, was flaming vitriol to her and them. It was him bashing them. It was him disparaging their life experience. Trivializing it. Dismissing it. Intended message? No. But a bunch of folks heard it that way.
I have not treated Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders any differently in this regard to distancing comments such as these.
Personally, I would like for the Democratic Party to cease and desist playing “Sister Souljah politics.”
It’s really not a good look.
That’s just...a red line for this particular gay African American male.
Monday, Apr 24, 2017 · 6:37:30 PM +00:00 · Chitown Kev
A “Sister Souljah moment” is pretty clearly defined at Wikipedia.
In United States politics, a Sister Souljah moment is a politician's public repudiation of an extremist person or group, statement, or position perceived to have some association with the politician or the politician's party.[1]
It has been described as "a key moment when the candidate takes what at least appears to be a bold stand against certain extremes in their party"[2] and as "a calculated denunciation of an extremist position or special interest group."[3] Such an act of repudiation is designed to signal to centrist voters that the politician is not beholden to traditional, and sometimes unpopular, interest groups associated with the party,[citation needed] although such a repudiation runs the risk of alienating some of the politician's allies and the party's base voters. The term is named after the hip hop artist Sister Souljah.[3]
And yeah, Mr. Barack “stop complaining and put on your walking shoes” Obama had a few of those...but a brotha gots to get his presidentin’ hustle on...I understand...but I still side-eyed it from time to time.