And *this* is why Bernie has Cornel West out on the campaign trail

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37. If you understand the context of his anti obama stuff

it actually makes sense, (and I had that explained to me by a few local African American University students). It is in the intellectual tradition of Dubois, and has to do with the clash and deep conflict between the outside game, and the inside game, otherwise known as respectability politics.

When he does it, he is really not addressing us, a latina and non community member and you, but the African American community. The reaction you see from African Americans is real. Some people fall in one group, the others in the other, and there has really not been any middle ground since 1910.

He is also within the prophetic tradition. I hope that helps to at least put it in context.