In a 12/1/15 Black Kos commentary, I concluded:
While policies, platforms and legislative votes are historically important (prerequisites, in fact) to black voters, the popular support of Roosevelts (or at least Eleanor) and the Clintons (for all of their faults and policy shade) in black communities illuminate a indispensable maxim for attaining the black vote: It is much less important for us (black people) to get to know you (the candidate) than for you to get to know us.
That statement was nothing more and nothing less than what many black Kossacks (even those that support Bernie Sanders) had been saying for months.
It appears that the last time that Bernie Sanders had much (if any) contact with black communities would be in the 1960’s.
That has nothing to do with endorsing Jesse Jackson in Vermont 1984 and 1988.
That does not have much to do with whatever votes he may have made as a Congressman supporting my community.
It is ludicrous for Bernie Sanders to expect that he would be able to get the levels of support that will apparently need after being physically absent from out communities for 50 years only to come back for a vote.
I don’t understand why this is so hard for Bernie Sanders supporters to understand
Black folks are going to smell that from a mile away.
Let me add a note for some of the Clinton supporters here: I would not go around spiking the football as some of you have been doing the past couple of days. You don’t want to do that to yourself because this black man, this black voter (early voting in Illinois begins on Monday) really ain’t feeling Hillary Clinton at all.