Every single member of the Black Caucus except one has endorsed Hillary over Bernie, and polls have consistently shown he is less popular with all minorities except among the youngest voters. It's silly for you to pretend I (some guy on Reddit) am making this issue up.

It's great Bernie was involved in and even organized some anti-segregation demonstrations when he was in college. It truly is, that was early on in the game. it's cool that he went

Since then, though, he moved to Vermont (pretty much the whitest state in the union) and civil rights just hasn't been his issue. He literally was not there in the big civil rights issues after 1964 (nor has he been that active on unions).

So when John Lewis says he never saw Bernie, he really didn't. Bernie went to the March on Washington in 1964 (with a million other people) and was in some demonstrations on his campus in Chicago. Of course Lewis never saw him.

Might Bernie's general fair housing and income inequality work help minorities more than the agenda of civil rights leaders? Maybe, but saying so is directly condescending to them. So is calling one of the most eminent civil rights leaders "a shill."

It's possible that Bernie (and his supporters in this topic) know what's better for African Americans than civil rights leaders, Obama, and African Americans themselves. But it's pretty cocky to think so.

At a bare minimum, there is a shocking lack of humility in claiming to know better what African Americans need than African Americans themselves, from Obama to John Lewis to the bulk of voters in polls.

At a bare minimum, Bernie should acknowledge that these people might have some insight into racism (and what to do about it) that he might not have. I really am struggling what is hard to understand about this point.