Bernie Sanders Fights for Civil Rights

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There seems to be some confusion about Sanders' stance on social issues. This should help clarify where he stands - and has stood for decades now - on racial equality.

Sanders was an organizer for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and participated in the historic March on Washington in 1963 as a 22-year-old student at the University of Chicago. "It was a question for me of just basic justice — the fact that it was not acceptable in America at that point that you had large numbers of African Americans who couldn't vote, who couldn't eat in a restaurant, whose kids were going to segregated schools, who couldn't get hotel accommodations living in segregated housing," he told the Burlington Free Press. "That was clearly a major American injustice and something that had to be dealt with."
http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2015/04/29/399818581/5-things-you-should-know-about-bernie-sanders

March on Washington A 22-year old college student was among the more than 200,000 people who traveled hundreds of miles to hear the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil right leaders. It was Bernie Sanders’ first trip to Washington. "There has been some real progress in breaking down barriers of discrimination and segregation, including the election and re-election of an African-American president. On the other hand, in terms of unemployment, low wages and more wealth disparity, we are worse off than we were in 1963," he said. The formal name of the gathering was the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. “Jobs came first, an acknowledgement that the ability to enjoy liberty depends upon having the economic wherewithal to exercise our rights. The organizing manual for the march … spoke of demands that included “dignified jobs at decent wages.” It is a demand as relevant as ever,” E.J. Dionne Jr., wrote in The Washington Post.
http://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/recent-business/the-week-in-review-082313

[LWolf]

1. Keep them coming.

Civil Rights. Women's health. And so much more.

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3. And so much more....

Never felt so great about supporting a candidate before! This is exciting!!!

[L0oniX]

2. Off to the greatest.

[NYC_SKP]

4. Bernie has all the makings of the Frontrunner for the Democratic Primary!

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5. There is no way that he is not the first choice of liberals and progressives

out of all the declared candidates so far.

No way.

[BrotherIvan]

6. Ah the rub

[Cheese Sandwich]

7. This is a side of Bernie I would like to learn more about...

Thanks for the post

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10. You're very welcome.

[99Forever]

8. K&R for truth, again.

[smokey nj]

9. Kick

[liberal_at_heart]

11. He is the real deal. It will be difficult to bring him down because he is genuine and has a clean

voting record.

[SMC22307]

12. He is the real deal. I don't know if Americans can handle that. (n/t)

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13. Americans NEED to handle it. n/t

[SMC22307]

16. No argument here. But in the age of phoney-baloney...

and everything slick and packaged and controlled, it *ain't* gonna be easy getting through to them.

[sabrina 1]

14. He has a long, long history of support for Civil Rights for all Americans.

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15. Yes, and just because he started decades ago, doesn't mean he stopped then

as some would like you to think.

This news was actually dismissed as "that was friggin decades ago" by someone. And someone else said, "wtf does that mean? Someone who's black or who marched or who has black children does't equate to be ...being racially perfect."


People are going crazy on here. Bernie's got 'em scared. Can't understand why, it comforts me to know he is on our side. ALL of us.