“You know there are a lot of white folks out there who are not necessarily racist who felt uncomfortable for the first time in their lives about whether or not they wanted to vote for an African-American.” – Bernie Sanders, 2018.

I am in no way a liberal snowflake, with thin skin. This doesn’t keep me up at night, and the world is not going to end because he made this comment, but let me be clear. His rhetoric and untimely comments about Hillary needing to do more to warn us about Russia this weekend, pushed me, and a lot of people who look like me, over the top. I know that there are TONS of people who support him…He was the favored politician, (noted: not president), by 57% of Americans according to The Harvard Harris Survey, conducted last year.

I’m not here to judge and I’m not here to bash, I’m here to tell you why Bernie Sanders does not have the black woman vote in 2020. (Pin It)

Don’t believe me? Ask Obama. (LOL!) Black women win presidencies, and that’s a fact. From main stream media, to the GOP, who are trying desperately to keep votes suppressed…KNOW the voting power of the black woman. Why else would they try to silence it? The major problem is that the MSM and even our own party, takes us for granted, and never really factor us in. Things and times are changing.

Bernie’s “Guide to Political Revolution” is outdated. Psssst..Plus? And this is good…He’s NOT a Democrat! So who is this “Political Revolution” for? Right now in America, we need a clean sweep of the Republican party from every crevice, office, seat and over turned rock. We don’t need division. (Insert Eye-roll). I’m going to drop this quote right here.

“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.” Bernie Sanders 2017

WUT?!?!?!?!? *Gulp*. You mean…the same people who have BEEN fighting since the civil rights movement, for inequality and police harassment, deportation of our brown brothers, and daily racism just took a hiatus?

Look, I know you Bernie Bros are just as aware as I am that my people let us down in 2016 by staying at home on their asses, but black women, have never equivocated from our unconditional love for this party. Bernie told CBS News right after the election, that he was born in a white working class family and he was “deeply humiliated” that the Democratic Party, the one he does not identify with, lost to Trump.

Do you want to know what humiliated us Bernie? The fact that working class white women voted for a misogynistic racist that was hellbent on caging children and bringing Jim Crow back from the dead. We’re also humiliated that you keep focusing on trying to convert Trump supporters and gain votes from people who dislike minorities, who are the Democratic party’s most faithful voters. Why not get out there and talk about issues affecting those communities.

Bernie knows how to write a book, and his policies look great on trees. Some would even call them potentially effective policies. Yet, at every given opportunity to explain SPECIFICALLY, with FACTS AND SUPPORTING DATA, how these policies are going to help the black community, he can’t answer, and he fumbles…miserably!

During a campaign stop at an economic forum in Minneapolis in February of 2016, a black American by the name of Felicia Perry who was a mother of a child suffering from asthma, and increasing health problems due to a garbage incinerator in the midst of the city.

Not So Fun Fact: Black children are twice as likely to suffer from asthma than any other race.

Ms. Perry had every right to ask the self proclaimed, “political revolutionary” what were his policies on addressing and eliminating environmental racism. She also went for the throat in the second part of her question, asking Bernie to address what she believed was his refusal to acknowledge discrimination against people of color

“My black son. I know you’re scared to say black, I know you’re scared to say reparations. But it seems like every time we try to talk about black people and us getting something for the systematic reparations and the exploitation of our people, we have to include every other person of color. … Can you please talk about specifically black people and reparations?” Felicia Perry

Here it was…Bernie’s moment to win over the community he claimed to fight and care so much about, maybe even show a smidgen of human decency and empathy for specific struggles and challenges of black mothers who have to raise children in unsafe areas afflicted with egregious environmental racism.

But, in typical Sanders fashion, he got defensive and refused to take on her challenge that he lacks a racial analysis: