The two Seattle protesters are official members of BLM and now run the official Seattle chapter; the 16-year-old was a volunteer that was blacklisted by the leadership, and replaced.
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What happened is that, following the NetRoots protest, Sanders attempted to meet with BLM, but they were “not ready” and declined; they then allowed a second protest in Seattle at a non-political Medicaid rally for the sick and elderly.
The first protest at NetRoots was acceptable and understandable, but the second in Seattle was at a Medicaid rally where the sick and elderly were literally holding signs saying ‘Senior Lives Matter’ and ‘Black Senior Lives Matter.’
BLM certainly expanded the discussion about Sanders, but most Americans aren’t even aware of the movement and still aren’t.
Unfortunately, McKesson has done a lot of work in school privatization, which is the furthest thing any teacher should want.
This is, the way our electoral system is designed Sanders kind of needs to focus on the early primary states, which are overwhelmingly white.
He’s made some headway into the minority vote, but it’s just not necessary unless he can prove he can win either New Hampshire and/or Iowa first.
It’d been up since at least late July, immediately following the speech he made at the SCLC.
The NetRoots protest was fine, since that venue is designed for protest.
People need to realize that BLM, while a valid and worthy movement and cause, has very little electoral clout. They won’t sway enough votes to make a difference.
A smear campaign designed to make a biracial white/black man look white is pretty racist, and dumb to believe.
Nope. Completely official candidate in an official poll.
Clinton voted ‘yes’ on pretty much every military engagement that Sanders voted ‘no’ on.
Racial and gender discrimination have actually been huge parts of his platform; he tweets about them a lot, includes them in his speeches, and has several pages on his website.
BLM is a decentralized organization. Anyone can fight under its banner.
The Seattle protestors were definitely wrong, but the BLM movement won’t admit that since they want to remain unified. Black liberation has, historically, been destroyed from the inside by fighting factions.
BLM, like any group, has moderates,…
I understand that a lot should be expected of the president, but Sanders will not be elected if everyone keeps telling him that he isn’t doing enough or doesn’t “care” enough.
I believe you are laughably wrong on this, and actually fairly irritating how you bury your non-rebuttals in walls of texts that amount to nothing else.
What makes you think he did not know all of this already, and instead simply could not do as much as you are demanding?
I find it amazing so much of his legislation even bothered to mention women at all, considering it’s such a fight to get anything of value funded by the GOP-controlled Congress. Was it not Jeb Bush…
What more than voting on legislation and introducing legislation do you expect a senator to do? How much focus does he need to give to a specific issue to be considered a champion of said issue’s resolution?
How is Sanders silent on women’s issues when he’s campaigned on expanding Planned Parenthood and reproductive rights as recently as this political campaign?