Why Bernie Sanders Got Twice as Much Applause as Hillary Clinton When He Spoke to La Raza

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ELECTION 2016
Why Bernie Sanders Got Twice as Much Applause as Hillary Clinton When He Spoke to La Raza



ELECTION 2016
Why Bernie Sanders Got Twice as Much Applause as Hillary Clinton When He Spoke to La Raza
Sanders connects at the Latino civil rights group's big convention.
By Steven Rosenfeld / AlterNet July 14, 2015



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On Monday, three Democratic presidential candidates—Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton and Martin O’Malley—gave half-hour speeches at the National Council of La Raza’s annual convention in Kansas City.

While Clinton spoke with familiarity to an audience she’s long known, it was Sanders whose speech was the most riveting, drawing twice as many applause interruptions as Clinton's.

Sanders' speech to the nation's largest Latino civil rights organization was notable because he confronted the "stain of racism," his father’s immigrant experience and his impoverished upbringing, and he went into greater detail than Clinton about what federal government could and should do to create more dignity and economic security for individuals and families.

Many pundits have written that Sanders has a problem addressing audiences of color, because he comes from nearly all-white Vermont. But Sanders’ La Raza speech shows that he can deeply connect with Latino audiences. What follows is a transcript of excerpts from his remarks that prompted 45 applauses and a concluding standing ovation.

Excerpts from Sanders' La Raza Speech


http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/why-bernie-sanders-got-twice-much-applause-hillary-clinton-when-he-spoke-la-raza

[JDPriestly]

1. K&R.

[eridani]

2. Sanders and enslaved Imolakee farmworkers

http://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/must-read/sixth-immokalee-slavery-case-suspect-arrested-the-news-press

According to the documents, physical abuse of the victims goes back to 2005 and occurred in Collier and DeSoto counties and as far away as North Carolina and South Carolina.

"Sadly, this is the worst of what happens when you have across-the-board degradation of labor and conditions that allow slavery to take root and flourish," said Laura Germino of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, which has helped prosecute six slavery cases that freed more than 1,000 workers in the past decade.

U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., is in Immokalee to meet with farmworkers who want Burger King to pay a penny a pound more for tomatoes.

"The idea that in the year 2008 in the United States of America people are being indicted for slavery is almost beyond comprehension. Yet this indictment sheds a light on the kind of conditions tomato workers in Florida are forced to live in," Sanders said.

"For a major company like Burger King not to pay that additional penny and raise workers' wages and improve their conditions is unconscionable."

[BrotherIvan]

3. Who could have known???

[Enthusiast]

4. Kicked and recommended!

[NealK]

5. She is so incredibly lame... JFC!

But unfortunately I believe that she'll be the Democratic candidate, so depressing. I badly hope that I'm wrong.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

6. They kept falling asleep.

[MannyGoldstein]

7. Someone needs to tell them

that Bernie doesn't address their concerns.

[Ichingcarpenter]

8. You need to express yourself

more passive aggressively and then just write

OK n/t

[MannyGoldstein]

9. OK n/t

[merrily]

10. He lives in Vermont, but he was raised in a poor part of Brooklyn.

Bernie is a Jew born in the 1940's to a poor father who was an immigrant and had lost family in the Holocaust, I have no doubt Bernie gets it. Moreover, everything he's said and done, including his votes, show he gets it.

[arcane1]

12. Spreading lies isn't going to get you anywhere

The "civilian national security force" is a right-wing lie.

Why are you spreading right-wing lies?