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Related: About this forumWhat's Today? Thursday? OK, Here's Today's Bernie Lie
In trying to establish the civil rights bona fides of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), many of his supporters have taken to posting a black-and-white photo of the presidential candidate from 1962. Students can been sitting on the floor and standing in the back as the then-dark-haired activist addresses them.
The compelling picture can be found in the senators biographical video on his campaign website. At the University of Chicago, Sanders says as the photo fades in and out, I got involved in the civil rights movement. We ended up engaging in a sit-in demonstration. Its on the campaigns Tumblr feed. As the Civil Rights Movement grew, Bernie led a sit-in to desegregate off-campus housing at the University of Chicago, reads the timeline under 1962. And Sanders used it in a stirring 2013 video to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington. I remember the day very well and I remember the moment, the period well, he says as the photo passes by, because up at the University of Chicago, where I was then going to school, we were working with young people in the South.
But thats not Bernie Sanders in the photo. It is Bruce Rappaport.
Classmates of the two men started raising concerns about the discrepancy last year. According to Time, four University of Chicago alumni told the magazine in November that they believed the man to be Rappaport, also a student activist, who died in 2006. At the time of the story, the photo was still captioned as Bernie Sanders in the University of Chicagos photo archive. But the pictures caption has since been changed.
[link:https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2016/02/11/stop-sending-around-this-photo-of-bernie-sanders/|
The compelling picture can be found in the senators biographical video on his campaign website. At the University of Chicago, Sanders says as the photo fades in and out, I got involved in the civil rights movement. We ended up engaging in a sit-in demonstration. Its on the campaigns Tumblr feed. As the Civil Rights Movement grew, Bernie led a sit-in to desegregate off-campus housing at the University of Chicago, reads the timeline under 1962. And Sanders used it in a stirring 2013 video to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington. I remember the day very well and I remember the moment, the period well, he says as the photo passes by, because up at the University of Chicago, where I was then going to school, we were working with young people in the South.
But thats not Bernie Sanders in the photo. It is Bruce Rappaport.
Classmates of the two men started raising concerns about the discrepancy last year. According to Time, four University of Chicago alumni told the magazine in November that they believed the man to be Rappaport, also a student activist, who died in 2006. At the time of the story, the photo was still captioned as Bernie Sanders in the University of Chicagos photo archive. But the pictures caption has since been changed.
[link:https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2016/02/11/stop-sending-around-this-photo-of-bernie-sanders/|
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What's Today? Thursday? OK, Here's Today's Bernie Lie (Original Post)
72DejaVu
Feb 2016
OP
Holy shit! Ok that's the second photo of his awesome civil rightsiness that is completely false.
Squinch
Feb 2016
#10
There is a kibbutz picture of 60's Bernie & clearly it is different than this one.
Historic NY
Feb 2016
#13
elehhhhna
(32,076 posts)1. Lmao horseshit.
I'll put that pic up against Hrh and Chels dodging enemy fire err... flowers, any day.
72DejaVu
(1,545 posts)2. The picture isn't him
but he claims it is to try to inflate his "record" on civil rights activism.
Is that OK with you?
elehhhhna
(32,076 posts)4. And ain't no bullets flying in hrhs pic.
Wth do I care about a mislabeled 45 year old photo? You're too funny!
72DejaVu
(1,545 posts)5. The age of the picture is not the issue
The lie is current.
pandr32
(11,578 posts)12. You've got that right!
livetohike
(22,138 posts)3. Many of us can't remember where we were or what we did in the 60's
William769
(55,144 posts)6. Apparently neither can Bernie!
livetohike
(22,138 posts)7. Yeah, I sympathize with him. Sometimes you convince
yourself you had to have been there. Maybe he can ask a friend 😎.
yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)8. And if you do...
you weren't there!
In the case of this photo, Bernie wasn't there!
livetohike
(22,138 posts)9. Exactly! Glad you mentioned that!
Squinch
(50,946 posts)10. Holy shit! Ok that's the second photo of his awesome civil rightsiness that is completely false.
The deeper you dig into this guy, the more his whole persona falls apart.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)11. Yeah how about that?
No wonder republicans are helping Bernie get the nomination.
He would be an easy mark.
Historic NY
(37,449 posts)13. There is a kibbutz picture of 60's Bernie & clearly it is different than this one.