Democratic Primaries

'Don't vote for him, he voted just like me!' is a pretty poor line of attack. Oh, Sanders had his 'reasons' for casting that vote, but he he cast it, and those 'reasons' don't matter a tinker's damn against that. Hard as it is to remember now, a good deal of support for that bill came from leaders in the black community, where many certainly felt themselves menaced by increasingly violent crime. Such men and women may be forgiven for failing to forsee how police would treat it as carte blanche for assault on young black men in general.




"When things are not called by their right names, what is said cannot make sense. When what is said does not make sense, what is planned cannot succeed. When plans do not succeed, people become uneasy. When people are uneasy, punishments do not fit crimes. When punishments do not fit crimes, people cannot know where to put hand or foot."