Ta-Nehisi Coates rips Bernie, but not Hillary.

As for me, I think the black demand for reparations is a racist hate crime on a par with demands of Klansmen that blacks pay reparations to whites for all the expense and damage blacks have caused here over the centuries that has utterly overwhelmed any profit whites have ever got out of them.

And yet I don't doubt that Coates really believes his own hate speech.

He sincerely believes that if the arc of history bends toward justice it is toward justice exactly as he and his fellow black radicals, in their relentless fury against whites, define it, and regardless of how anyone else defines it.

He is as much a true believer as any ISIS murderer or Nazi Jew killer.

In any case, this will drive a heck of a wedge between Hillary's supporters and Bernie's, and perhaps more enduringly between Bernie's white supporters and the perennial black grievance movement.

Why Precisely Is Bernie Sanders Against Reparations?

Bear in mind that for Coates, a deeply committed exponent of the riot ideology, "white supremacy" refers to the cultural, social, and political dominance by whites generally characteristic of societies with large white majorities - a supremacy that would persist in case all sorts of positions throughout the society were held by all races or ethnicities proportionately to their numbers in the general population.

He will stop whining about it when the power and wealth in the US are in the hands of non-whites - preferably blacks - , whether or not, but most likely because, non-whites have become the demographic majority in this country, an eventuality for which he also fervently longs.

"White skin privilege" is to be understood in an analogous manner.

It is open to question whether this attack will actually hurt Bernie in the primaries or would in the generals.

It might actually work for him with white voters in lieu of a Sister Souljah moment, assuming he doesn't lose his mind and publicly embrace the cause of reparations.

I am not aware that Hillary supports reparations.

Oh.

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