Democratic Primaries
Related: About this forumShaun King speaks out on Bernie Sanders
Why Bernie Sanderss History of Racial Justice Activism Matters
BY SHAUN KING
https://jacobinmag.com/2018/06/bernie-sanders-civil-rights-movement-activism
...Bernie loved Dr King. And long before we used the phrase, Bernie had the notion that he needed to use his own white privilege to fight back against racism and bigotry and oppression and inequality. And that desire to hold this country to a higher standard began to well up in Bernie as a young student at the University of Chicago. He became the chairman of the university chapter of the Congress for Racial Equality (CORE) and merged the group with SNCC the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. Bernie literally helped lead the first known sit-in in at the University of Chicago, where thirty-three students camped outside of the Presidents office protesting segregating housing on campus.
Sanders getting arrested at protest for desegregation in 1963
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
George II
(67,782 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
vsrazdem
(2,176 posts)fight for racial injustice. What does where you live have to do with your belief system. That is just silly.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
yerop
(89 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
George II
(67,782 posts)...for racial justice in an area that's 95% white and hundreds of miles from any large urban area with significant non-white populations.
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Hassin Bin Sober
(26,273 posts)Where, pray tell, did you get that made up factoid?
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George II
(67,782 posts)Pray tell.
At the time there were less than 5,000 blacks in the entire state of Vermont. Even today, decades later, there are less than 8,000 in Vermont.
What did he do back then? Write a blog, send email blasts, post tweets?
"Lol".
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
vsrazdem
(2,176 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
Though Sanders risked his neck working for desegregation and racial justice, apparently that doesn't matter because later he moved to Vermont!
Sanders marched with MLK -- but then he moved to Vermont, so he's suspect.
That's the bizarre logic, as far as I can tell.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
Hassin Bin Sober
(26,273 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
George II
(67,782 posts)...what he's done for "racial justice" beyond his college days in the early 1960s.
Even BS himself, at "She The People", couldn't come up with much since he was at the March on Washington.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
George II
(67,782 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
lapucelle
(18,040 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Eliot Rosewater
(31,097 posts)this issue.
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lapucelle
(18,040 posts)to strongly campaign for and with a Democratic candidate running against a Republican incumbent who is shipping his home state's incarcerated (disproportionately POC) to a for-profit prison thousands of miles from family and support systems, it is unlikely that the politician will do the really hard work of drafting and shepherding meaningful legislation through all the steps it takes to get it enacted.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Eliot Rosewater
(31,097 posts)Almost as if it doesnt matter what the facts are, reminds me of someone else.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
lapucelle
(18,040 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
FoxNewsSucks
(10,378 posts)to bash Sanders.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
UniteFightBack
(8,231 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Uncle Joe
(58,112 posts)For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease; he is burdened with his own sorrow, and groans on seeing another's happiness. Aeschylus
Read more at https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/aeschylus_404203?src=t_hatred
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
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UniteFightBack
(8,231 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
George II
(67,782 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
UniteFightBack
(8,231 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Uncle Joe
(58,112 posts)Thanks for the thread yerop.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
UniteFightBack
(8,231 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
comradebillyboy
(10,119 posts)Oh yeah he endorsed Jesse Jackson in 1988...
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betsuni
(25,138 posts)"When we talk about your record with black people, what examples can you point at to show black people 'This is what I have done, specifically, for issues that deal with y'all?'
"In 1988, I was one of the few white public officials who supported Jesse Jackson for president of the United States, and he ended up winning Vermont." When asked about legislation, Sanders says "Well, legislation that benefits African-Americans, yeah, but not specifically, you know, we passed legislation that benefits working people, sure."
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lapucelle
(18,040 posts)activism history according to Shaun's article.
When will Shaun be writing about the rest of BS's history of racial justice activism?
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UniteFightBack
(8,231 posts)must be taken.
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SidDithers
(44,228 posts)Sid
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yerop
(89 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
SidDithers
(44,228 posts)You know that Moscow Mitch was at that March too, right?
Sid
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dalton99a
(81,073 posts)Well, he hired Nina Turner and Briahna Joy Gray
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George II
(67,782 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
lapucelle
(18,040 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Agschmid
(28,749 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
lapucelle
(18,040 posts)the way he did for out of state challengers in Democratic primaries and out of state gubernatorial candidates in 2018.
An incumbent Republican governor who vetoed an increase in the minimum wage, the creation of a paid family leave program, and who contracted with a for-profit prison to house some of Vermont's incarcerated in a Mississippi hell hole also won on Tuesday. (While POC only make up 1% of VT's state population, they make up 11% of the prison population.)
Among the Democrats who lost their November 2018 races was the Democratic candidate in the Vermont gubernatorial race, Christine Hallquist, the nation's first transgender candidate for governor. She ran on a platform that included a $15 an hour minimum wage, the creation of a paid family medical leave program, working with like-minded states to implement universal healthcare cooperatives, and protecting collective bargaining and workers rights.
Hallquist, raked in early endorsements from EWarren, JBiden, HDean, and Joe Kennedy followed by BSanders, CBooker, and President Obama, had been especially outspoken on Vermont's housing of out of state prisoners in a for-profit prison in Mississippi.
I was aware that Vermont has a disproportional rate of incarcerated people of color, but I wasn't fully aware of the extent of the need for criminal justice and prison reform in the Green Mountain State. Like all Americans, the people of Vermont deserve better.
It's bewildering that BS was unavailable to campaign at length to remedy the very real problems in his home state by helping to elect Vermont Democrat Christine Hallquist. Why were the governor's races in Georgia, Florida, and Michigan prioritized over the well-being of his own constituents in Vermont?
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
George II
(67,782 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
WhiskeyGrinder
(22,149 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
bobbieinok
(12,858 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
George II
(67,782 posts)....outside the department chairs' and dean's offices.
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Vegas Roller
(704 posts)The suspected Russian operative.
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lapucelle
(18,040 posts)The purchase of the paper seemed like an ideal takeover for Sunkara linking his viral socialist publication in America with the struggling legacy British paper.
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Workers say that Sunkara promised that if workers took a settlement of only 70% of the back wages that they were owed that he would give them future work after taking over the publication. However, Sunkara in a statement to Payday confirmed that he would not bring the staffers back.
http://paydayreport.com/jacobin-publisher-accused-of-reneging-on-wage-deal-in-takeover-of-british-magazine-the-tribune/
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
JI7
(89,182 posts)never practicing what they claim to support.
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nini
(16,670 posts)He accuses people of crimes they did not commit, threatening to sue those who battle him on twitter etc etc..
That guy is a major jerk.
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JI7
(89,182 posts)and other forums with mainly black posters say about him.
https://twitter.com/hashtag/shaunking?lang=en
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
nini
(16,670 posts)He's a grade A huckster.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
BlueWI
(1,736 posts)at least by Democrats, no matter when they occurred.
You can respect acts of conscience and still not support the candidacy for the nomination. That's a simple and reachable standard. And then the discussion can focus on the actual issues in front of us.
White supremacy is a real and present threat. There is no candidate in this race that has an unblemished record when it comes to addressing racial inequality consistently, proactively, and inclusively. But there are proposals on the table from every candidate. Why are these discussions so shallow when we're supposed to be the anti-racist party?
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided