DC: Members of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) are urging the organization’s national political committee to withhold its endorsement of Vermont Democratic Sen. Bernie Sanders for president after he stated that he was not in favor of slavery reparations.
The DSA’s AfroSocialist and Socialists of Color Caucus wrote an open letter to the political committee criticizing Sanders’ failure to address “the unique experiences of Blacks in America” and not taking time “to inform himself on generations of work around reparations.”
“Should the organization move forward with an endorsement of the Sanders campaign, despite his failure to adopt specific policy stances to address matters of persisting racial injustice and despite his unwillingness to champion reparations to specifically address the experience of the descendants of African slaves, it will risk alienating not just members of color within the organization, but people of color in the communities in which the DSA works,” the letter reads. more
Sanders and those behind him are not to be taken lightly.
They represent a significant and growing part of the population, one I think is growing as was demonstrated in recent Congressional elections.
They haven’t achieved controlling power of the Left yet, but that doesn’t mean they won’t in the foreseeable future or that the Left is something we can ignore.
I would go along with it if and only if the receiver signed an enforceable agreement where they had to renounce US citizenship and move to Liberia. We don’t them here anyway.
WHat will the socialists of color do if Sanders is nominated? Will they vote for Trump instead? NO CHANCE! The best they can do is stay home which will insure a Trump victory.
THis is just a hollow threat they have no intention of acting upon. They will vote anyone but Trump in 2020.
The socialist/commie bastards are trying
to overthrow our republic.Fema camp for you?
or shoot the scum!
These people are insane!
It’s the TAXPAYERS who are the current slaves so I’m definitely for “slavery reparations”.
Sure, find me someone who was a slave here, and then you can pay them with my blessings.
I knew socialists always “work” “around”… never “on”, nor “at”… well, anything, really. I just didn’t know it had been for generations.
…I recall someone posting this before, and it’s a really good response.
“No Republican ever owned a slave. Your issue is with the Democrats. See THEM about your claim.”
…of course, NO living person was involed on EITHER SIDE of antebellum Southern US slavery, so no one is owed money by anyone because the color of their skin is similar to someone who was mustreated 150 years ago, and no one alive today us responsible for that mistreatment just because they have a similar hue to a mean man 150 years ago.
Lots of White people fought against slavery. Lots of Black people sold OTHER black people into slavery. How you gonna sort THAT out?
…and I guess the descendants of Sally Hemmings will just take “reparations” money out of their right pocket, put in in their left, and call it even…
What do you call 50+ years of welfare/entitlements/affirmative action? I think reparations have already been made.
So Crazy Bernie is demoted from “Comrade Lenin, Hero” to “Trotsky, Exiled Enemy of the Party” overnight.
The Left is skipping whole decades of the playbook already. They haven’t even secured the 1917 Revolution barricades yet and already they’re onto the 1940s Purges and assassinations of the Inner Party.
At this rate every 2020 candidate will already be denounced for Thoughtcrime and Insufficient Revolutionary Purity long before the pollsters hit Iowa.
Maybe the DNC Bolshevik Supreme Soviet is preparing a surprise candidate that AOC, Soros and Antifa can all agree on.
Kim Jong! Little Rocket Man 2020!
Is this the March Madness I keep hearing people mention?
How many they got stuffed into that clown car now?
Glad I’m old, starting to sound more and more like our last hurrah.
The Shadow knows.
sanders is an avowed socialist, and he is accepted and running as a democrat. That needs to be made widely known. They own it.
With all the frenzy that is going on, I am caused to wonder if the democrats realize that the election is next year, and not this one.