It didn’t matter to me that Bernie had participated in the civil rights movement and, frankly, his close proximity to that degree of racial animus made his absence of racial analysis more than fifty years later even more egregious. Moreover, I found it especially terrible that when it came to racial politics, many young progressives, across racial lines, were far more willing to train their hatred on Hillary Clinton, a white woman, than on Bernie Sanders, a white man. White women have absolutely been accomplices to the American project of white supremacy, but their husbands, brothers, fathers,
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