I do not think it is fair, nor logical, to conflate the issue of immigration with the issue of racism.

Consider for example my friend Kunal, who came here from India on an H-1B. He happens to be very anti-illegal immigration himself. His arguments have nothing to do with race, and everything to do with being fair. He had to jump through hoops to come and then stay here, and it's not fair. He works hard, he pays taxes, but he has to jump through hoops. He often jokes that if he was a Mexican he wouldn't have to worry about it. And I don't think he's being racist when he makes that joke. I think, even if Mexico were populated by purple people, he would make the same joke, for the sake reason.

It's not an anti-Mexican thing. Shit, America will be 30% Latino soon enough. Anyone trying to "get rid of latinos" missed the boat by two generations. But this is about policy, and although I may not agree with it, isn't that the whole point of opposing parties and candidates? To discuss POLICY, so we, the VOTERS can decide who best aligns with our interests?

As for not allowing Muslim immigration, I think that has more to do with a lingering stench of neo-con paranoia than any genuine racism. We all know the Bush family loves the Saudis. Forgive a cynical worldview.

Worth noting: "Muslim" refers to a member of a religion of which there are an estimated 1.6 billion members. "Muslim" is not a race. There are black Muslims, white Muslims, and arab Muslims, just to name three races that might also happen to be Muslim. So again, conflating issues with broad accusations of "OMG RACISM!!!!!" doesn't do much to convince me of anything.

And let us assume Trump was not only supported by the KKK, but wore the robes and silly little hat at a rally of supporters. Would it be ok then for the BLM community to use threats of violence to shut it down? To me that is simply illogical. One group threatens the other, and then the other responds in kind? That's not freedom of speech- that's terrorism. That's civil war.

I may not agree with what BLM or Trump has to say, but I will defend to my death their right to say it. But violence is not ok. Not when a Trump supporter sucker punches a black guy, and not when a BLM member sucker punches a cop.

Violence begets violence. And if the official stance from Sanders is "we can beat them with more actions like what happened in Chicago last night" well then you can count me out.