Posted on 08/12/2015 9:13:23 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Saturday’s disruption of a speech by Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders belies a growing rift on the left between liberal leaders and communities of color that feel they are not represented.
SATURDAY’S turn of events when two Black Lives Matter protesters thwarted a speech from presidential candidate Bernie Sanders was cringe-worthy.
The progressive alternative for the Democratic nomination expected a warmer welcome in Seattle.
The protesters used a coarse strategy that cut short what could have been a productive discussion with 15,000 people who turned out to hear the U.S. senator from Vermont. The protesters treated Sanders as an enemy instead of someone who could usher in solutions.
Saturday’s fracas reflects a growing sense of disconnect between marginalized people of color and liberal elected officials who claim to represent their interests. The protesters called Sanders and members of the crowd “white supremacist liberals.”
Sanders’ populist message of improving education, worker rights and curbing the power and profits of billionaires resonates with many liberal-leaning voters.
Black Lives Matter activists want more. They want to know what Sanders will do to combat racism, the kind that leads to police across the country repeatedly killing unarmed black men....
(Excerpt) Read more at seattletimes.com ...
It’s really something all the really expensive smart phones dose “po peoples” be carrying. Add in the monthly service charges and a lot of them are running up $400/month bills, all of that being paid for by us.
So, racists who shut down Sanders want more discussion of racism.
“Donald is still a joke...”
You’re entitled to your opinion, of course, but Trump wouldn’t have stood by looking like a p*ssy, asking repeatedly for them to stop.
Sadly, yes. In addition to being a commie; he’s a douche-bag.
This is pretty typical of black treatment of nebbishy Jews like Sanders.
Couldn’t happen to a nicer socialist.
Slaves generally don’t want to be free and resent those who free them.
They want to be masters.
If I was playing Monopoly and all I drew was the Race Card, I would burn the card.
Always. I am doing my personal best to burn so much Jet A that I shall reverse the price of oil.
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If Sanders---who seems like a good man---is frightened and backs away every time black brats/thugs---American citizens who should know better---confront him until they get their way, then how in the world is elderly "President" Sanders going to find the energy and courage to stand up to real, vicious thugs from Russia and Iran when they attack him day after day. Sad. Sad.
Actually, there are. They are just now recognized by the media or anyone else.
Bernie Sanders was at the birth of civil rights. These thugs don’t know his history of working for the black movement in the 60’s. These jerks weren’t even born and he was defending them
Screw Bernie Sanders. He’s a Communist. Many “working for the black movement” were. And still are. The useful idiots from BLM provided welcome comic relief.
I want salesmen who tell me what I want to hear. It is up to me to determine if such is true or has any merit. It is the old ‘buyer beware’ taught by my mother.
Ronald Reagen was the last POTUS to show respect for his office. This last fraud, the hip-hop community organizer has total disrespect for the Oval Office and all it stands for. The Obama's are as racist as the Black Caucus, Shelia J. Lee, Elijah Cummings, Maxine Waters.....all are hate mongers, acolytes of the Race Pimps...keeping the American Negro on their plantations,keeping them ignorant and barefoot....
Thomas Sowell and his ilk are the complete opposite of the Obama type Negro....
In other words, it’s all Bernie’s fault.
Too bad Sammy Davis Jr. isn’t alive.
He could be Sanders V.P. killing two Birds with one Stone.
BTW - The Moronic BLM Woman who took the Microphone said that the Gentile Giant was Murdered, conveniently leaving out the fact that he was trying to get the Officer’s Gun after beating him. But hey, facts mean nothing today.
And help stave off the coming cool down. Thank you for that. :>}
“Why are there no communities of white?”
Because whites and specifically white males are the only group of people that do not require the assistance of other white males to function
“and communities of color that feel they are not represented.”
Pfff..Join the crowd.
Otherwise, what do they want? Not hearing the words “jobs” or “two parent home” or “education”
If they want safe streets, and they don’t like the police, then what? If the do not like black on black crime, and they do not support the private gun ownership, then what?
It couldn’t possibly be they want more government bennies?
Asians and Indians seem to do fine. As do Jews (who are white or not white depending on who you talk to).
Watching the old fool Sanders’ bewilderment trying to process his leftist ideals at the same time as he was being attacked by two black thugs was cognitive dissonance in its most pure form.
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