The Nation: African-American Voters Have an Understandable Reason to Support Hillary Clinton
Bernie Sanders has propelled economic inequality to center stage. But older African Americans have known about inequality for a long time.
By Eric Foner - TODAY 2:01 PM
Supporters wait for Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton to speak at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History in Detroit, Michigan.
Why have most African-American voters, especially in the Southern states, steadfastly supported Hilary Clinton in the Democratic primaries? This question has bedeviled supporters of Bernie Sanders, who has a long record of support for racial justice and whose economic policies would arguably benefit blacks more than Clinton’s. As a Sanders supporter and a scholar who has devoted much of my career to studying the African-American experience, I have wondered about this myself.
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But for black Carolinians, the challenge today seems to be holding on to gains that are under assault rather than seeking further progress. It is not surprising that voters in this situation prefer a familiar candidate who seems to promise progress, even if incremental, rather than a lesser-known insurgent from a virtually all-white state with a sweeping but seemingly utopian agenda.
Black voters, moreover, are extremely protective of President Obama. They recognize, more viscerally than many whites, how much of the invective hurled at the president has a racist tinge. No white president has been forced to produce his birth certificate to demonstrate his citizenship or been interrupted during a State of the Union address and accused of lying. When Obama is called “lazy” or a “food-stamp president,” the language, among blacks, evokes stereotypes deeply rooted in America’s racial past. To some extent, when blacks vote for Clinton they are casting one last ballot for Obama.
Given all of the above, black support for Clinton is understandable. Sanders has done a remarkable thing in propelling economic inequality to the center stage of political discourse, thereby galvanizing support among young white voters, and some young blacks. But older African Americans have known about inequality for a long, long time. Whatever the outcome of this election, one lesson of our history is clear: No progressive movement in this country can succeed without a significant base of support in the black community.
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Saved you a space . . . It's going to be another great night!
So exciting!
Was going to respond to your post after I did to Jon.....got way laded by another lost soul. Had to respond.
Ya will be here tonight. By the time I get home from work it may already be called.
We will.....
I can't wait!
Hugs~
Luvs ya ucrdem
I am going down.............too...
Gotta sleep~
sweet dreams . . .
It's pretty simple when you get down to it. But good luck trying to explain it to the "populists" LOL.
in knots trying to explain away her strong support in the AA community. All they had to do was to ASK any one of the hundreds of thousands of Hillary voters. The folks I saw talking about it on my computer screen were pretty darn clear about it. 
But then again, people who bought into the racist nonsense may have a vested interest in simply not seeing how they might have got it wrong back then. Weird times.
Fortunately the Bernie bus is making its last stop tonight. So sad.
Beautiful weather on the horizon!!
It's going to be a great day!
LOve your great-day breaking pic, man. Mahalo~
I'm putting that in my sig . . .
tomorrow! 
p.s. 
Mahalo Cha! 
If I had room I do it, too.. it look's really inviting..
I had it for my avatar for awhile but if was so small I could barely tell.. so I decided to go with the
You're Welcome, ucr~
One of the Republican-sounding memes is this meme that Sanders supporters are somehow "different" and particularly "purist" and arrogant because we have strong beliefs in our candidate and the issue he represents.
As if having beliefs and ideals and political goals is a bad thing.
But it's fine to have therm if you support Clinton. 
