When white liberals mock Bernie & Corbyn and think the issues we face all summate to beating Trump or stopping Brexit w/ a return to “normalcy” lets be clear they mock us. The black & brown who overwhelmingly supported these politicians as they spoke against western imperialism.

Bernie won Muslims. Bernie won Latinos. Bernie won all POC under 35 - even under 50 in some states too. There’s no magic inside the bodies of these septuagenarian men.

Just something so rare in our politics today: political courage; integrity; and a love for the working class.

As for Corbyn, we know BAME communities backed him, and Labour, en masse even though they’re now being forgotten in the conversation of who and what constitutes racism.

Always loyal to the party, yet forever an afterthought.

In Britain a lot of the pundits & PLP’s hatred for Corbyn *is because* he’s powered people they never deemed worthy to have a political voice/power - esp if that voice was to the left of them.

It’s why labour right types are with Tories in mocking @zarahsultana and the left.

Both of these men inspired a generation of young people who will, I hope, graduate from disaffected grassroots activists and people shouting online to political actors and agents in their own rights demanding a better world for themselves and their families, present and future.

There’s no going back from the politics of the Green New Deal. Ecological collapse - heightened by capitalism - is not going wait. The urgency and the breadth of our radical response to it will grow in the next four years.

We have to struggle to make sure that the world after COVID19 is a fairer one, wherein we value people (with pay, not gestures) who work to keep the world running even as most of us have the luxury of confining ourselves at home - in safety - from this deadly virus.

I choose to sit in the assurance that now millions of light bulbs have been switched on they won’t dim.

It is said ideas do not die. Men do, campaigns do.

The ideas for justice and liberation: social, racial, environmental and economic. These ideas will live on.

Jeremy and Bernard did so much more for young people, for communities of colour, for the working class than the neoliberals could ever do in a thousand lifetimes. #thankyoubernie #thankyoujeremy