2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Why is Hillary Clinton crushing Bernie Sanders among minority voters? [View all]calimary
(81,845 posts)I remember reading something about Marian Wright Edelman's Children's Defense Fund and how a just-out-of-college Hillary went to hear her speak. When the speech concluded, Hillary went up to her and said "I want to work for you."
I read your post, Sancho, and the posts of a couple of others here too, and I find myself just astonished - "how on earth can anybody object to her candidacy? How on earth could anybody on our side of the aisle NOT want to vote for her?" I realize I'm probably inviting the inevitable avalanche of objections and protestations and even outrage against such an assertion, but whatever, I guess.
And someone else here pointed out a couple of things that hadn't occurred to me:
1) Hillary has an intimate grasp of the issues that minorities face every day because SHE herself happens to BE one, as well (as a woman - especially one making her way in a man's arena). I actually identify with that, personally, myself, as a woman who broke into broadcasting during the 70s when THAT TOO was pretty exclusively a man's world.
And 2) I totally get how PoC would identify strongly (and favorably) with President Obama and probably would take it personally when his enemies keep going off on him and trying to hobble and negate and fault-find every damn thing he does! It's probably even read as a betrayal when some of his loudest and most strident critics, incomprehensibly, come from THIS side of the aisle. No wonder there's such a disconnect.
It's mighty frustrating, and not a little bit bewildering.