So the logic is, we should blame Hillary Clinton, who had no legislative power at the time, for the 1994 crime bill, but Sanders, who actually voted for it, gets off scot-free, because he didn't really mean it. Okay.
And there's a lot of revisionist history going on with that bill. I feel like people who never heard of it before that The Nation article came out last week are now using it to guilt people into voting for Sanders. That bill was written by Biden, voted for by Bernie and a large number of black Democrats, and signed into law by Bill Clinton. It was not a diabolical plot to imprison black people. Crime in the late 80s/early 90s was BAD, and at the time the bill had huge support among left-leaning politicians as a solution. The consequences were awful, but sometimes well-intentioned legislation fails (see, No Child Left Behind Act). It happens.
What I can tell you is that Sanders's policies are not feasible in the United States political arena, I really don't care that they passed in Scandinavia. The US ain't Norway---single-payer isn't passing here. Even if the Dems were to control Congress, folks need to realize that Dems are ideologically diverse, every Dem is not a far-left liberal. Those policies would not only face inter-party opposition, but intra-party opposition as well.
And frankly, nobody has still really explained why Sanders "deserves" the black vote anymore than Hillary. What has he done? I don't care about his ideas, which are extremely myopic. Giving black people jobs won't curb police brutality. Taking down Wall Street won't prevent environmental waste from being dumped into predominantly minority communities. All the ~big banks~ talk has worn on me because it's not a catch-all for everything.
And if we really want to talk accomplishments, frankly, CHIP is more consequential than anything Bernie "Post Offices" Sanders has done in his entire career.
. You can't just pick and choose which ones are and which aren't 
. You can try to say "health care is possible because other countries did it" but the first country to do it didn't know it was possible. He should be for it if he's so revolutionary as he says. But hey maybe that's why I don't support him, I don't think anything he says can be done 
It was for all children. But kudos to her for getting it done as First Lady. That's amazing.
