Charlie Rangel is not optimistic about Bernie's chances in connecting with African-Americans.
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/01/charlie-rangel-bernie-sanders-minority-vote-217885
Bernie has been trying to do some outreach to the black community in South Carolina but
as the SC Dem Chair who happens to be African-American argues, it doesn't help him that the only high profile black leader Bernie has spent a lot of time with on the stump is Cornell West who has such a bad realitonship with many other black leaders for the way he has spoken of and insulted President Obama.
Hillary poins out that Bernie's attempt to attack her for accepting finanical donations is also an attack on President Obama who also accepted such donations in 2008. Bernie is desperate to not be seen as anti President Obama.
http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2016/01/richard-weaver-just-undercut-bernies.html
But becoming so associated with Cornell West will really cement Bernie as running against the President's legacy.
The dilemma for Bernie is he needs the endorsements and support of prominent black leaders. Cornell West is certainly high profile enough. But he's also completely marginalized himself by his inability to adjust to the rise of the President.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/04/22/the-sad-but-self-inflicted-fall-of-cornel-west.html
Most other civil rights leaders were better able to adjust to the fact that the rise of a black President changes the place of importance for many of these civil rights leaders. Al Sharpton actually did a very good job in terms of adjusting.
He got right away that Obama is the President not a civil rights leader and that you can't expect him to lead 'a march against himself.'
Jesse Jackson had some real trouble adjusting and we have the notorious tape of him talking about cutting Obama's nuts off back in 2008.
But in time even he would learn to adjust some. Cornell was never able to do that. He wants the black community to hail him as it's leader and prophet. But more and more black folks don't feel the need for a black Moses to lean on. Symbolically Obama showed that the possibilities of black children are now much higher than dreamt of in earlier times-despite the recent scandals with police brutality, Black Lives Matter, etc.
I'm not saying 'racism is over' or anything so absurd just that the horizon has clearly been expanded.
Hanging out with Cornell West only buttresses Bernie as not being the Democrat-if he is a Democrat at all which he isn't-to consolidate and build on Obama's agenda, but rather repudiating it and trying to start over.
P.S. Polls show that Hillary has a huge lead among nonwhite voters.
http://www.vox.com/2016/1/15/10770524/who-supports-bernie-sanders
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/01/charlie-rangel-bernie-sanders-minority-vote-217885
Bernie has been trying to do some outreach to the black community in South Carolina but
as the SC Dem Chair who happens to be African-American argues, it doesn't help him that the only high profile black leader Bernie has spent a lot of time with on the stump is Cornell West who has such a bad realitonship with many other black leaders for the way he has spoken of and insulted President Obama.
Hillary poins out that Bernie's attempt to attack her for accepting finanical donations is also an attack on President Obama who also accepted such donations in 2008. Bernie is desperate to not be seen as anti President Obama.
http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2016/01/richard-weaver-just-undercut-bernies.html
But becoming so associated with Cornell West will really cement Bernie as running against the President's legacy.
The dilemma for Bernie is he needs the endorsements and support of prominent black leaders. Cornell West is certainly high profile enough. But he's also completely marginalized himself by his inability to adjust to the rise of the President.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/04/22/the-sad-but-self-inflicted-fall-of-cornel-west.html
Most other civil rights leaders were better able to adjust to the fact that the rise of a black President changes the place of importance for many of these civil rights leaders. Al Sharpton actually did a very good job in terms of adjusting.
He got right away that Obama is the President not a civil rights leader and that you can't expect him to lead 'a march against himself.'
Jesse Jackson had some real trouble adjusting and we have the notorious tape of him talking about cutting Obama's nuts off back in 2008.
But in time even he would learn to adjust some. Cornell was never able to do that. He wants the black community to hail him as it's leader and prophet. But more and more black folks don't feel the need for a black Moses to lean on. Symbolically Obama showed that the possibilities of black children are now much higher than dreamt of in earlier times-despite the recent scandals with police brutality, Black Lives Matter, etc.
I'm not saying 'racism is over' or anything so absurd just that the horizon has clearly been expanded.
Hanging out with Cornell West only buttresses Bernie as not being the Democrat-if he is a Democrat at all which he isn't-to consolidate and build on Obama's agenda, but rather repudiating it and trying to start over.
P.S. Polls show that Hillary has a huge lead among nonwhite voters.
http://www.vox.com/2016/1/15/10770524/who-supports-bernie-sanders
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