His effort to address the challenges facing African-Americans comes as the Vermont senator faces a large and diverse primary field.
2020 presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders and his wife Jane O'Meara Sanders acknowledge the crowd has he arrives to a campaign event in Chicago on Sunday.Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.CHICAGO — An African-American singer led the national anthem at Bernie Sanders’s campaign kickoff here Sunday, while speakers of color offered testimonials to the Vermont senator’s civil rights activism.
“Bernie’s always stumbled on issues of race and his use of class as a catch-all gives the impression that he’s either unable or unwilling to address the specific concerns of African-Americans or he’s trying to avoid what he feels is identity politics,” said Basil Smikle, a former executive director of the New York State Democratic Party.
Since then, he’s appeared to ramp up efforts to address the unique challenges facing black Americans that critics complained were missing the last time around. Black voters are approximately 4 in 10 Democratic primary voters, and competition for their support is already fierce. “Our campaign is about fundamentally ending the disparity of wealth and power in this country,” Sanders told the Chicago crowd."But as we do that, we must speak out against the disparity within the disparity.”
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