Would Harvey Milk Endorse Bernie Sanders? The Harvey Milk LGBT Democratic Club Just Did. [View all]
“I will tell you something that Harvey Milk understood: If you’re looking to find real compassion and kindness, go to those who know what it means to struggle, to experience the depth of alienation — and you will find all that they created to humanize themselves and others.”
“The kindness that often comes from those who struggle and support one another rather than pushing one another down — that is truly a beautiful thing.”
That is the primary similarity between Sanders and Harvey Milk.
I am angry. I am proud. I am passionately happy sometimes. That’s what it means to be human. I think we get lost when we believe we’re not supposed to be angry by what kills us. What starves us. What allows Flint to exist the way that it does? What allows all of those other cities that are worse off to stay that way? I want to make sure that we spread our voices and our message as far as possible, because I know that’s what Harvey Milk would want us to do.
#MarchForBernie Oakland where Harry Britt spoke with more than 1,000 marchers, highlighting the history of Harvey Milk, Bernie Sanders, and progressive social movements
Like many people who “feel the bern,” I grew up in a working class family in the Midwest. I was an activist there, went to grad school in Boston, and moved out to San Francisco to learn more about my history. I don’t speak for the Harvey Milk LGBT Democratic Club in a formal capacity, but I do speak for myself — as a member of that club who promoted this endorsement, I am immensely proud of it. I am proud to be a member of such a human organization and I wish others could experience this group in the ways I’ve been privileged enough to experience it.
Why should this endorsement matter to you? I’m not here to answer that question, but I am here to ask it and hope that you can find your answer. Most people respectfully and reasonably don’t know the answer to that question. Most of us (including myself) were robbed of REAL American history, and the queer/black/women’s/Native American social movements that brought us where we are (and aren’t) today.
Like Bernie Sanders, Harvey Milk grew up in New York as a Jewish man. Both of them grew older with an intimate understanding of the horrific impact of Adolf Hitler, war, and hatred.
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