Insiders recount how Sanders lost the black vote -- and the nomination slipped away

[MineralMan]

8. Bernie Sanders thinks he is "color blind." In some ways, he is.

He firmly believes that economic justice is all that is needed to end discrimination between people on all grounds. He is wrong about that, and people who suffer from racism, sexism, and a number of other discriminatory -isms know that from long experience.

His lack of focus on other things that hold people down and back is his downfall. Yes, economic justice is truly important, but for many minority groups, they lack economic justice due to institutional biases against them. There can be no economic justice where there is social bias. People who are actually affected by these things understand that. Those who are not effected typically do not understand it.

So, when Sanders rails against economic injustices, people who have seen social injustices all their lives recognize that Bernie is missing a crucial factor in the economic injustice they face. Without social justice, there can be no economic justice. It is just that simple an equation, and that is recognized by anyone who suffers social injustice.

Bernie simply doesn't get it.