RACIAL PROFILING ALLEGED AT BERNIE SANDERS RALLY IN ST. PAUL
Not everyone left happy. A handful of black activists are claiming they were racially profiled and denied a privilege they hadn't even asked for. The claims led to an ongoing fight on Twitter; the messy fallout is another example of the fragile alliance of liberals, radicals, and youths Sanders has to capture and preserve to overcome Hillary Clinton.
Initially the tale unfolded in a long train of tweets from a number of different people. Fortunately, someone in the affected group gave a more comprehensive version of the story to the This Week in Blackness podcast, which retold that side's story yesterday. A group of seven young black women had gone to the rally to hand out fliers to raise awareness about Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and its effect on the local African immigrant population.
After they arrived, someone from the Sanders campaign approached the group, and asked if they'd want to stand on the platform behind the candidate during the speech. These spots are prime real estate for winding up on local or national TV coverage, and event planners are known to go out of their way to throw together a collage of people with varying ages, looks, and races.
http://www.citypages.com/news/racial-profiling-alleged-at-bernie-sanders-rally-in-st-paul-8000955
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Maybe the third time will be the charm and Bernie's loyal following will leave him in droves?
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I can't support Bernie anymore! He's just too HONEST & has stuck to his principles & values for too many years! He has fought for veteran's, minorities, people who live in poverty, our elderly, middle class & women rights WAY TO LONG! 
What do we REALLY know about Bernie? followed by ridiculous rumours that we make up.
Really?
The staffer may have simply mistakenly IDed one woman as a member of the disruptor group and had her bounced along with the bona fide members of that group. Doesn't seem to be much more to the story.
Neither of us is a star member, so the search would take some effort. Am recalling what I read to the best of my memory. Sorry, I know links are very helpful... Was probably in one of these similar threads. Going to let this sink now, as it deserves.
Of course the case could be made that we'd have to be insane to post here at all.
of the highest order.
Why post anything from her? She's proven herself utterly dishonest.
Is she banned yet? Or is she "protected " despite being outed as a troll?
She admits to trolling. She's pretty proud of it actually.
I lurk and observe. I rarely post but I distinctly remember this exchange.
ridiculous and embarrassing way that you are coming after me and after bravenak, I'd be hidden. Everyone on this board knows that.
I see someone alerted on your post and even though if ANYONE is troll-ing around in this thread it's you, it was 1-6 to leave it alone. Which I have no doubt is exactly what you're counting on.
And it's obvious that you care. You went from "reading and lurking" for over ten FREAKING YEARS to come out for the sole purpose of denouncing bravenak. She is clearly TERRIBLY important to you. And now you come out with the "fangirl" stuff. When did folks stop using that -- 2010? Well, that is some improvement! In a few more years, you may actually be current! 
Not.
Just keeping the playing field level regardless of the players whatever their names. DU has become distinctly "unlevel" with declared trolls like bravenak running amok. I'm unconcerned with candidate affiliation and more concerned with trollish posting. I've lurked until now when the trolling has become extreme and proudly proclaimed.
Done with that shit, especially this season.
it says to download an app to listen. I'm not overly user friendly with the phone functionality LOL.. I'll check it out, though.
Bravenak was right on with her assessments of how the AA community would receive Bernie's economic focus and how his supporters trashing Obama would also be a turnoff. I still can't believe the downright irrational hostility the BS camp employs against large segments of the Democratic party base. There is no rational explanation for it.
fine for me. Sorry to make you have to do "work" just to hear that link.
Bravenak was right on with her assessments of how the AA community would receive Bernie's economic focus and how his supporters trashing Obama would also be a turnoff.
Of course she was. Why else would so many here absolutely DESPISE that woman???
She was wrong about some stuff, right about some other stuff. Typical human being. The hate towards her is as astonishing as it it unsurprising considering the sources.
Thanks for catching such an important omission and for giving me the opportunity to correct it.
I'm still chuckling over your comment from the other day about how a campaign that has gone from 4% to one of the most enthralling races in years would 'go down as one of the worst run campaigns in history' but hey, I'm easily amused.
They were passing out fliers about immigration policy toward East Africans. We have a large and politically engaged East African Muslim population in the Twin Cities. It's a very diverse area. Evidently that diversity, according to Imandi Ghandi, was not reflected at the Sanders rally, which is the only way profiling could even be possible.
Elom James White is saying that the staff heard there might be a protest so they started pointing at random black people. How is that anything other than profiling? It wasn't just one person who was targeted.
White is trying to be fair and give a sense of the events. He isn't trying to indict or excuse Bernie. I know it's ridiculous even suggesting that anyone could possibly have any right to say anything that might contradict anyone associated with the Sanders campaign. No need for facts. No need to consider anyone's word other than Bernie and his staff. Of course everyone but Bernie and his staff are liars. They are perfect and the rest of Americans hopelessly inferior.
Ouch.
Just under the wire, PST. God, are these twisted campaign stories a desperate attempt to besmirch a good man in the service of an ambitious and dishonest woman.
Anyway: 
I made it into the the video. Was interviewed by the NYT. It is a common practice.
