Sanders faces protests as he courts black voters

[Warren Stupidity]

ATLANTA — Shouting over protesters, Bernie Sanders promised black Americans that if elected he would be their partner in the White House and follow in the footsteps of his predecessor, the country’s first black president.

The Democratic presidential front-runner vowed to run ‘‘a love and kindness platform’’ as he courted African-American voters in Atlanta. Yet he struggled at times to convey his plan to address racial equality after protesters from the Black Lives Matter movement interrupted his remarks. Fewer than 10 people sang and chanted for several minutes in front of the podium as Sanders tried to stick to outlining his proposals.


‘‘I’m sorry they didn’t listen, because some of what they demanded I am offering and intend to fight for as president,’’ he told a crowd of hundreds gathered at Clark Atlanta University after the protesters left the gymnasium.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/politics/2015/10/30/clinton-faces-protests-she-courts-black-voters/8tbQNeDwxXq9yknneT3cfM/story.html

oops, my bad. Something happened to my keyboard. I'll correct the spelling of "Clinton" later.

[randys1]

1. Lectures are starting early today. Must be Halloween

[Warren Stupidity]

2. Be honest. Had this actually been Sanders the faux outrage here would have been

titanic.

[luvspeas]

3. It's not about that, it's about this...

[LiberalArkie]

4. Results

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An utterly dishonest thread created with substituting names only for inflammatory and disruptive purpose. DU should be better than that.

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Explanation: It is a viable point. It would have been different. BTW back in the day of MLK it was peaceful protest, usually a sit-down. There were other groups like Black Panthers who were loud and tried to take over.
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[Warren Stupidity]

8. Ah I see one of my good friends attempted to hornswoggle a jury

and failed.

[JaneyVee]

5. Ah, more excuses from Bernie's flailing campaign.

Whatever helps you sleep at night.

[WIProgressive88]

6. I wish we could all just support the causes that #BlackLivesMatter is fighting for and push ALL

of our candidates to do better on issues of racial justice. It trivializes these issues that are literally matters of life and death for our African American friends when we seem more concerned with using them to attack an opposing candidate than with actually addressing them. Supporters of both Bernie and Hillary are guilty of this.

[luvspeas]

7. yes!

[emulatorloo]

9. Well said