Bernie Arrested in Chicago, Protesting Segregation & Police Brutality Aganst African Americans:

[amborin]

Last edited Wed Feb 10, 2016, 09:29 PM - Edit history (1)

Being Arrested For Desegregation: As a student at the University of Chicago, Sanders was active in both the Congress on Racial Equality (CORE) and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC).

In 1962, he was arrested for protesting segregation in public schools in Chicago; the police came to call him an outside agitator, as he went around putting up flyers around the city detailing police brutality.

[ViseGrip]

1. I trust African Americans can do their homework. If not, we know there are consequenses.

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

2. What matters more is what he's doing in 2016.

Meeting with CampaignZero representatives to improve upon his platform and come up with concrete steps to address the needs they've highlighted. And he'll need to keep working with them once he's in the White House.

[HooptieWagon]

3. I agree.

Recognizing he needed to do more to earn AAs votes, he added AA staff and consultants and put more detail into his racial justice platform. And now he is attending an upcoming town hall forum on race in Minniappolis that Clinton is ducking out of despite being in town. Sanders is working hard to earn AAs trust and votes. If they still want to back Clinton and her poor record, then <shrug> it's their votes.

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

5. Trust doesn't just have to be earned, it has to be repaid.

There are a lot of folks who assume that he will simply abandon black voters again after a win, and that simply cannot happen. We have to keep pushing him, once in office, to repay what trust he earns, and to start demilitarizing, to end the incentive system that feeds young black bodies to the private prison complex, to find a way to break the blue line of silence that uses the system to protect murderers in uniform.

[farleftlib]

6. Did he abandon AA voters in the past?

I believe his policies benefit AAs more than Hillary's do but what I believe - as a white person - doesn't mean diddly. This is honestly the first I've heard about him shunning POC after winning an election.

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

10. I think they've been secondary to his focus.

And I don't think that makes him any worse than pretty much every other single white politician out there. But it doesn't leave a lot of AA folks all that enthused either. He still can win more voters by showing they're going to have issues that are more important in their lives specifically addressed. And isn't that what we all want from him? That he'll address the issues important to us, the voters, as opposed to those important to corporations and boardrooms? To some of us, the top priority is climate change, to others economic inequality, to others racial inequalities, often with the 'justice' system. We ALL hope that he'll address our top priorities, and we all hope that even if he focuses on one thing, he'll still address the others as well.

[farleftlib]

12. Ok, Thanks.

I see what you mean.

[HooptieWagon]

14. No, he hasn't abandoned them.

Of course, as a Representative and Senator from a mostly white state, he represented his constituents. However, he has also represented minorities. He strongly opposed bills like NAFTA that cost jobs. He added amendments to bills that created community health clinics in poor communities. And he campaigned hard for Jesse Jacksons presidential campaign, winning him a few states (like mostly white Vermont). That's just a few, there's many more.
Not to say AAs shouldn't be skeptical, they've been badly burned and ignored by corporatist Democrats who ignored their issues once elected. But I'm sure Bernie will come through.

[HooptieWagon]

7. True that.

The past 2 Democratic Presidents have done a poor job respecting their base. For some reason, white liberals are blamed despite not being in control of the party, and still supporting BC and BO. I'm sure Sanders will do far better...he'll remember his supporters.

[farleftlib]

13. Yes, I believe that too.

He seems passionate about institutionalized racism and I believe he'll follow through. It's just who he is and his prior actions seem to bear this out.

[cosmicone]

4. Where are the mugshots?

There aren't any? That's what I thought.

[Matt_in_STL]

8. Obviously

Because we all know he went back in time and planted the articles in the papers with his name. He used the same time machine President Obama used when he put his birth notice in the Honolulu papers.

[hobbit709]

9. I got arrested in Chicago in 1968. I got my head beat in but no pictures.

[HooptieWagon]

15. For those wondering what hobbit is referring to:

Must watch video.

http://www.history.com/topics/1960s/videos/violence-batters-1968-democratic-convention

[hobbit709]

17. The whole world was watching.

And we're still fighting the same kind of bastards.

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

11. So what? That still hasn't convinced the vast majority of the black electorate to support him.

HE has to convince black voters, not his arrogant supporters.

[TCJ70]

16. I've seen you and Bravenak...

...post repeatedly about how Bernie doesn't appeal to the black electorate. In your eyes, what would it take?

[amborin]

18. apparently one of Bernie's ads in SC will feature this episode and also interview some of his associ

associates at that time