Bernie chained to protesters

[packman]

Newly discovered image by the Chicago Reader of Bernie Sanders chained to protesters

Short video of same:

http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/bernie-sanders-1963-arrest-full-story-school-segregation/Content?oid=21247370

[ladjf]

1. I heard a rumor that Sanders wasn't comfortable around black people.

Yet, the 1963 photograph shows him voluntarily chained to other segregation protesters.

[Cheese Sandwich]

3. He does look kind of uncomfortable in the picture

[lunamagica]

19. LOL!

[jfern]

46. WIN!

[BainsBane]

6. I heard a rumor this was 2016

[ladjf]

9. What does your post mean? nt

[Cheese Sandwich]

10. Who cares if Bernie did this? Hillary fought in the Bosnia war.

Records don't matter. Only campaign statements.

[ladjf]

11. A few days back, there was a very snarky post

entitled something to the effect "Sanders isn't comfortable in the company of Black People"

Then a couple of days later, there was the counter piece "Clinton feels good in the company of Black People".

I felt that both posts were beyond ridiculous. My posts were my attempt to counter the earlier posts.

Guess mine didn't work out the way I had hoped.

[Cheese Sandwich]

14. I've never seen that photo before

I'm a fan of Bernie Sanders and also of anybody who puts their body on the line for a cause like that.

Thanks for posting it.

[ladjf]

18. I'm glad to hear that you support Bernie. I think he's an amazing person.

What I look for more than anything else is trustworthiness and integrity. Bernie excels in both.
Can't say that about many politicians.

[Cheese Sandwich]

20. I like looking at photos of Bernie in the civil rights movement. I'm a fan of it.

God only knows Hillary has got some photos out there of her brushing off dandruff and whatnot that are supposedly iconic.

[BainsBane]

33. Not everything is done in front of cameras

How Hillary Clinton Went Undercover to Examine Race in Education

The future Mrs. Clinton, then a 24-year-old law student, was working for Marian Wright Edelman, the civil rights activist and prominent advocate for children. Mrs. Edelman had sent her to Alabama to help prove that the Nixon administration was not enforcing the legal ban on granting tax-exempt status to so-called segregation academies, the estimated 200 private academies that sprang up in the South to cater to white families after a 1969 Supreme Court decision forced public schools to integrate.

“It was dangerous, being outsiders in these rural areas, talking about segregation academies,” said Cynthia G. Brown, a longtime education advocate who did work similar to Mrs. Clinton’s.

She added, “We thought we were part of the civil rights struggle, definitely.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/28/us/politics/how-hillary-clinton-went-undercover-to-examine-race-in-education.html?_r=0

[Cheese Sandwich]

37. I respect that. It's not like getting dragged across a parking lot in chains by the Chicago PD

but everyone does what they can I suppose.

[Motown_Johnny]

41. But she worked to elect a segregationist.n/t

[BainsBane]

12. It means this isn't 1963

and I think it's pretty obvious by now that particular approach has not succeeded in persuading African Americans to vote for Bernie. Voters care what candidates are going to do now, here in the present, not what they did a half century ago.

[ladjf]

15. So, if it didn't happen recently, it's meaningless?

[Cheese Sandwich]

17. It's not meaningless at all.

Actually I found it quite inspiring.

It helps confirm that Bernie is a righteous dude.

Nothing wrong with that.

[Cheese Sandwich]

16. What makes you think this post is trying to persuade people?

Don't you think people are able to simply look away from things they aren't interested in?

The post is for anybody who is interested in history and Sanders' history?

If anybody doesn't care they can just look away. There's not a big banner at the top saying "Listen Up Black People".

[Uncle Joe]

22. I believe said poster "protests too much" here in 2016.

[BainsBane]

31. Meaning I shouldn't be allowed to express my views?

here? Is that your point?

[Uncle Joe]

34. No you can protest all you want, reminding people that 2016 isn't 1963 as if no one knew that.

But what's the point?

[BainsBane]

36. You should know the point by now

There have been dozens and dozens of articles and posts by AAs on the subject. But you're right. There is no point trying to get any of you to give a shit about that or anything else. It's your world. The rest of us only exist to vote as we are told.

[Cheese Sandwich]

38. You're not the dictator of DU. If you don't like it why not give some space to others who do.

Hit trash thread. We're allowed to share photos of Bernie Sanders.

Do you think I enjoy looking at that GIF of Hillary brushing dandruff off her shoulder 100 times a day?

No. But it's the internet so I deal with it.

[Uncle Joe]

40. The point is Bernie did give a shit and still does, this what you're afraid of taking hold, that's

why you would rather white wash History and let Bernie's Civil Rights activism be forgotten.

These photos and Bernie's later actions throughout his distinguished career are consistent with his character of caring for all the people regardless of race and I believe this discomforts you.

I'm not telling you anything, that you don't already know.

[BainsBane]

26. Sure, I suppose

I guess the point is to just make yourselves feel better.

It's better than the threads about how AAs just aren't informed enough to vote people as here insist they should, or the ones trying to come up with ways to disenfranchise the entire South. The sort of thing that Skinner commented on here:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/12599671#post1

[Cheese Sandwich]

30. 80% of this site supports Bernie so we post pictures of him doing dope shit in the 60s. Deal with it

If you don't like that you could always find another site to hang out on I guess.

Or hit trash thread.

Some people post stupid things because this is the internet.

You're trying to change the subject. Yes there are some idiots on the site who are condescending to black people. I don't approve of that.

That doesn't mean every time somebody posts a photo or comment about Bernie Sanders civil rights record that it is directed at any particular person or group.

We are allowed a space to discuss or celebrate Bernie's record. If you don't like it, look away. Or continue to make your comments if you want.

[choie]

42. Right - and I still have

yet to hear an answer as to what it is, exactly, that Clinton is going to do now, here in the present, to benefit African Americans...

[TM99]

23. I trust a white man who was chained to black protestors

in the 1960's a hell of a lot more than a white woman who is praying with black preachers in 2016.

[ladjf]

29. Beautiful.

[thereismore]

32. That cuts deep. nt

[virgogal]

2. And then he high tails it up to lily white Vermont for the rest of his life.

I don't get it.

[Cheese Sandwich]

4. Vermont is awesome. That's probably why he went there.

[NWCorona]

7. I know right?

[Raster]

8. How disingenuious can you be. He moved to Vermont and you attempt to turn that...

...into some type of invalidation of his commitment to Civil Rights, WHEN THERE IS PHOTOGRAPHIC EVIDENCE TO THE CONTRARY?

Seriously, "lily white Vermont"? Seriously?

[Lorien]

39. The Hillfolk have nothing. Seriously; attacking a guy like Bernie

after his lifetime of activism in an effort to prop up a warmongering fracking Wall street toady who takes money from Saudi Arabia and refers to black youth as "Super Predators" while profiteering from for profit prisons? ARE YOU F*CKING KIDDING ME???? What's next? Demonizing Jane Goodall? MLK? Gandhi?? People backing one of the most corrupt politicians running dare to suggest that Bernie isn't "pure" enough??


FFS, camp weathervane has lost it completely!

[ladjf]

13. What is it that you don't get about living in "lily white Vermont"?

Have you ever been there?

Does the racial imbalance bother you?

[TM99]

28. Let's bus in the color folked

so that forced diversity corrects this egregious error.

While we are at it, let's fix these other states some of which are even less diverse than Vermont.

https://www.mainstreet.com/slideshow/least-diverse-states-america

And you know what, I don't see Illinois or Arkansas on this list. Why is that not an issue for Clinton?

https://www.mainstreet.com/slideshow/most-diverse-states-america/page/2

[TM99]

25. As my daddy used to say, what

the fuck does that have to do with the price of tea in China?

He was the only fucking white rep to support Jesse Jackson in 1988 from 'lily white' Vermont so obviously not a damned thing.

[Uncle Joe]

27. That would be the same "lily white Vermont" that voted for Jessie Jackson in 1988 after Bernie

endorsed him for President.

Jackson captured 6.9 million votes and won 11 contests: seven primaries (Alabama, the District of Columbia, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Puerto Rico and Virginia) and four caucuses (Delaware, Michigan, South Carolina and Vermont).[6] Jackson also scored March victories in Alaska's caucuses and Texas's local conventions, despite losing the Texas primary.[7][8] Some news accounts credit him with 13 wins.[9] Briefly, after he won 55% of the vote in the Michigan Democratic caucus, he was considered the frontrunner for the nomination, as he surpassed all the other candidates in total number of pledged delegates.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_Jackson_presidential_campaign,_1988

[Lorien]

35. No, you really don't.

Bernie has clearly spent his lifetime fighting for the 99%. ALL of us. Vermont is a beautiful State beloved by East coast nature lovers. Nature; you know, that thing that Hillary wants to frack into oblivion?

You really don't get it at all.

[Zorra]

43. I get it. Bernie is smart, and perceptive. Vermont is gorgeous, is

arguably the most liberal state in the US, and the people there are generally very nice, kind, friendly people. The air and water are clean, the crime rate is low, and they make maple syrup.

So, are you saying that Bernie should not live in a beautiful state because there are too many white people there for your taste?

[jwirr]

45. Ever heard of the back to the earth movement?

[NCTraveler]

21. K&R

That is action. Solid Sanders.

[renate]

24. you've probably seen this video, but just in case:

[WillyT]

44. HUGE K & R !!! - Thank You !!!