But that's not what the quote says. That's your extrapolation.
Listen to the audio. It is the actual quote.
I provided a link to the audio as well in the OP.
The quote didn't do that, either. It refers to a discomfort that is prevalent in the United States. It says, you overcome it by the act of voting.
Huh?
The context of the quote was in regards for voting for black candidates in the last election in the South. The comment was in regards to those black candidates not being successful in those two states, because the white people there are not comfortable voting for a black candidate and that this is apparently not racism.
The quote (as per the audio and the links provided) speak directly of the South.
Did you not read any of the links provided?
Because you are taking everything and placing it in a completely different context and you are literally attempting to rewrite what he actually said and what he was talking about. Why are you doing that?
Isn't that what you're advocating? Nobody saying what they actually witness or feel?
Aside from Sanders..
Where did I say that racism should be ignored? Are you, perhaps, posting in the wrong thread?
Gods know that's said often enough! Believe it or not, even people who are uncomfortable with racial relations, who are uncertain of their tribal loyalties, who wish they were less afraid of what they've been conditioned from infancy to fear, do have sensibilities. Nobody learns from browbeating.
My god..
Racism, blatant racism, is now being labeled as mere discomfort.
Discomfort is eating too much and your pants getting a tad tight around your waist.
Racism, in this instance, is deliberately not voting for a candidate because they are black. What you are describing as being merely "uncomfortable" is racism.
The whole system is so fucked up, pasting labels on a handful of ambivalent voters is not going to fix it. Nor are these people in charge of employment and health care; they're just products of the same system.
A handful? They are in the majority.
And they vote to ensure that minorities, women and LGBTQ are denied access to things like healthcare, education, housing, and all things that come with economic equality. These are Trump voters.
These are States that go out of their way to suppress the votes of minorities and those people you think are simply uncomfortable, support these measures. You know, racism.
NO, they were not. They were appealing to the people who already felt perfectly comfortable in their bigotry. If you lump the nervous people who are not quite sure in with the hardened white supremacists, you'll drive them into the Trump camp.
One of the [several] huge political mistakes was leaving the poor whites in the south unreconstructed, back in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. They became easy prey for opportunists.
They are racists. One does not have to be a white supremacist to be racist, Jeeves.
That "discomfort" is racism.
That tribalism, is racism.
That nervousness, is racism.
They voted to protect institutional racism. They voted to protect their status in society.
Even a poor white person is valued higher than a rich black person, Jeeves. They are less likely to be stopped by the police, questioned about why they are sitting, walking, standing, wherever, compared to a black person. They are less likely to be viewed with suspicion, to be "uncomfortable" around.. You are literally attempting to justify racism in your posts. It is those voters who Trump won over. It is those voters that Sanders is trying to win over to the Democrats, at the expense of minority voters, because as far as Sanders is concerned, those poor white folks, are the "ordinary Americans". Everyone else who does not fit into that little Anglo Saxon box fall under the "identity politics" that Sanders and the right demand be ignored.
Bernie's comments were for the protection and justification of racism. Coining it into polite terms, still does not take away the fact that not voting for a black candidate because they are black is racist.
See, there you go again. Filling in all the steps that have not been taken. If it's not perfectly wonderful, it must be egregiously horrible, nothing in between.
Why not hold people responsible for what they have actually done, rather than what they may be feeling and what a similar feeling might cause somebody somewhere to do at some time?
What do you think these people do, Jeeves?
What? Do you think these things only happen in movies? Those people who won't vote for a black person because they are black, are also the ones who would not hire a black person because they are black. Who support police brutality against black people, who literally vote for measures that ensures minorities are further marginalised and discriminated against. Who do you think supports these measures? That "handful" as you described them, are the majority in those states.
No, what he said was that they might feel some discomfort the first time they do vote for a black candidate and the discomfort will go away as they do it again.
No. In context, he said that they did not vote for these candidates because they would feel discomfort about voting for a black person and that this is not racism.. That not voting for a candidate because they are black, is not racism. But that next time, this could possibly change and they might look past skin colour and so called race and vote for progressive policies.
This is what he said. Please stop assigning different meanings to his own words.
That would be difficult, but could be done in most cases, through - as you say - exposure: integration, particularly in schools and in the workplace, where employees discover their common interest - and far more significantly, their common enemy. It's no accident that Republicans have so consistently kneecapped trade unions.
What do you think has been happening since the 70's? How many generations is it going to take?
How much kowtowing and excusing should black people be doing? How much more should they be willing to take and accept because the white folks are "uncomfortable" with their blackness?
That's a different matter, much easier. If you were serious about solving the problem, you'd look into income disparity, access to decent urban housing and education. But, first of all, you'd have to disarm the several thousand right-wing propaganda machines - broadcast media and church pulpits - that poison their minds, day after day.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/11/my-descent-into-the-right-wing-media-vortex
But you're not interested in difficult solutions to complex problems, are you?
Just name-calling. Hell, if it makes you more comfortable, go ahead.
What the hell did you think I was doing in this thread? What? My repeatedly pointing out in this and many other threads, that the failure to address the underpinning racism that drives income disparity, access to housing, health and education for minorities, will only ensure that minorities never rise above where they are now? That Sanders economic plan "for all", clearly fails to address the causes of income disparity and that he cannot have these discussions while completely ignoring race?
That it will never be fixed for a large portion of the population, because it has been consistently ignored.
I'm sorry if the subject makes you "uncomfortable", Jeeves. Many people are unable to accept that inequality is driven by many factors and attempting to ram through a one size fits all, that fails to address the causes, will consistently fail and it is why minorities did not support him the last time and won't again. His latest dismissal and excusing clearly racist ideology and practices, just shows that he still refuses to acknowledge minorities and in particular, African Americans.
If you cannot call racism by its name, then you are simply a part of the problem and you are literally attempting to protect said racism and bigotry.