Joy Reid: why are black potential candidates getting singled out for attacks by Bernie people?

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25. I read the article and I don't understand why you don't see the problem.

Why does the article single out three black potential candidates as posing problems with the left -- candidates who have little in common except they are all black Democrats? What about all the white potential candidates? Don't they have as many things in their backgrounds that could be concerning?

What happens is that, when a minority or a woman candidate, against all odds, reaches the upper ranks of politics -- they are routinely denounced by some on the alt-left -- BECAUSE of their very success. BECAUSE they are successful fundraisers. BECAUSE they have attained some power in the white-male dominated world.

So the only African American who is acceptable to some of these people is one who is outside of the mainstream -- and such a candidate would have almost no chance of winning an actual election.