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The Sanders Campaing is Launching "Feel The Bern" Tour of Black Colleges:
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Bernie Sanders’ campaign for president is set to embark on a tour of some of the nation’s historically black colleges and universities, members of his campaign told BuzzFeed News.
Plans for the tour being dubbed “Feel the Bern” according to national campaign spokeswoman Symone Sanders, are still in the works. The candidate will not be present at every stop.
“We are going to be touching HBCUs in a way that’s never happened ever in a presidential campaign,” Marcus Ferrell, Sanders’s black outreach director told BuzzFeed News. “It’s going to be very potent and very positive. We are going to places and talking to folks that haven’t been approached before.”
Ferrell said that several entertainers have thrown their support behind the Vermont senator in recent weeks — Big Boi from Outkast, Bun B, and the actress Tatyana Ali. The campaign is going to use those voices “to talk to folks who know who they are, in addition to people Nina Turner and Dr. Cornel West. These are known thinkers.”
Each stop on the tour of HBCUs will feature a marquee name, but the campaign wouldn’t provide more detail. Campaign officials are however focusing much of their attention on politically engaging Benedict College and South Carolina State. Symone Sanders said the student body presidents on those campuses are supporting Bernie Sanders and have begun mobilizing young voters inside those communities.
Plans for the tour being dubbed “Feel the Bern” according to national campaign spokeswoman Symone Sanders, are still in the works. The candidate will not be present at every stop.
“We are going to be touching HBCUs in a way that’s never happened ever in a presidential campaign,” Marcus Ferrell, Sanders’s black outreach director told BuzzFeed News. “It’s going to be very potent and very positive. We are going to places and talking to folks that haven’t been approached before.”
Ferrell said that several entertainers have thrown their support behind the Vermont senator in recent weeks — Big Boi from Outkast, Bun B, and the actress Tatyana Ali. The campaign is going to use those voices “to talk to folks who know who they are, in addition to people Nina Turner and Dr. Cornel West. These are known thinkers.”
Each stop on the tour of HBCUs will feature a marquee name, but the campaign wouldn’t provide more detail. Campaign officials are however focusing much of their attention on politically engaging Benedict College and South Carolina State. Symone Sanders said the student body presidents on those campuses are supporting Bernie Sanders and have begun mobilizing young voters inside those communities.
link: http://www.buzzfeed.com/darrensands/the-sanders-campaign-launching-feel-the-bern-tour-of-black-c#.mm0MYa12Zq
So glad to hear that he is doing this!! Arguable he should have been doing this a month or two ago, but at least he's doing it now. Also, the article mentions he will be doing meetings in local barbershops and churches too. This is a great way to outreach for him and his surrogates!
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Go Bernie!
