Sanders was the only White guy who showed up
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"When the Congressional Black Caucus asked me to present my discovery of the illegal purge of Black voters in Florida, only one white guy showed: Bernie Sanders. Hillary: MIA. I'm tired of hearing that Sanders doesn't reach out to Black folk. He's been on the front lines since Selma. I don't endorse candidates — but I also don't tolerate bullshit over facts." - Greg Palast
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not all have it.
You know something, jeff47? I admire you and am glad you're here. 
not conservative in many respects---I'm very proud that I was a Goldwater Girl---and then
my political beliefs changed over time."
At the time of this interview in 1996, she is proud of her conservatism, proud to be a conservative and not a reactionary, and very proud to have been a Goldwater Girl.
Regardless of which party they attend
And all this kerfluffle is very telling...if ya know what I mean...
Or more likely in a COUPLE of hours.
Or ... 
You know it's a brave new world when you have to rely on politicians for the truth. 
"stolen valor." Thing is, BERNIE SANDERS is the first person to say he was never there--so why are his supporters trying to make him look bad by attempting, falsely, to place him there?
People got their heads knocked at Selma. Blood was shed. People were beaten to within an inch of their lives, and jailed. People died.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selma_to_Montgomery_marches
The second march took place March 9. Troopers, police, and marchers confronted each other at the county end of the bridge, but when the troopers stepped aside to let them pass, King led the marchers back to the church.[9] He was obeying a federal injunction while seeking protection from federal court for the march. That night, a white group beat and murdered civil rights activist James Reeb, a Unitarian Universalist minister from Boston, who had come to Selma to march with the second group.[10] Many other clergy and sympathizers from across the country also gathered for the second march.
The violence of the "Bloody Sunday" and of Reeb's death led to a national outcry and some acts of civil disobedience, targeting both the Alabama state and federal governments. The protesters demanded protection for the Selma marchers and a new federal voting rights law to enable African Americans to register and vote without harassment. President Lyndon Johnson, whose administration had been working on a voting rights law, held a historic, nationally televised joint session of Congress on March 15 to ask for the bill's introduction and passage.
With Governor Wallace refusing to protect the marchers, President Johnson committed to do so. The third march started March 21. Protected by 2,000 soldiers of the U.S. Army, 1,900 members of the Alabama National Guard under Federal command, and many FBI agents and Federal Marshals, the marchers averaged 10 miles (16 km) a day along U.S. Route 80, known in Alabama as the "Jefferson Davis Highway". The marchers arrived in Montgomery on March 24 and at the Alabama State Capitol on March 25.[11] With thousands having joined the campaign, 25,000 people entered the capital city that day in support of voting rights.
The route is memorialized as the "Selma To Montgomery Voting Rights Trail," and is designated as a U.S. National Historic Trail.
These people were "at" Selma:
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http://blackamericaweb.com/2015/03/06/little-known-black-history-fact-bloody-sunday/
http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/06/politics/selma-50-years-john-lewis-bridge-anniversary/
DU got dragged through the mud at SNOPES once already--you would think that posters would care a bit for the reputation of the site and not repeat falsehoods over and over again.
http://www.snopes.com/sanders-mlk-selma-march/
Hey--you wanna talk about "Bernie's legislation?" Start a thread about it. Don't come to me and try to tell me that the truth is "disrespectful." Shame on you.
""Support" is nice, but that's not the same as being on the "front lines." What did he do for black people since he's been in the Senate that qualifies as "being on the front lines?""
First I'd like to know what your definition of "front lines" in relation to work in the Senate. Are there any non blacks that fit your description?
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before he chucked it and moved to Vermont, where the civil rbefore he chucked it and moved to Vermont, where the civil rights movement was just muffled background noise from places far away in time and space)"
You really should read the book Civil Rights in the Whitest State: Vermont's Perceptions of Civil Rights, 1945-1968
As I think you might be surprised.
Before our media began turning right (1980's) we had good investigative reporting(like 60 minutes and their expose's). Can you imagine anyone in our MSM being allowed to say these truths? Of course not. Thank you Ferd Berfel. This should be an eye opener for many.
I actually appreciate your doing this research; it puts you a bit ahead of other Hill supporters.
However, the big showy event that Hillary graced with her presence was on July 14th.
The meeting that Palast attended was on July 15th.
Two different days.
Furthermore, we do not, at present, have a date for the CBC meeting on the purge of Black voters in Florida in which Bernie was the only white person present.
I'm not saying, and would not say, that Hillary needs an excuse for not being attendance at that meeting. What I am saying that the "excuse" put forward in this thread -- Hill's attendance at a July 14 event -- does not work because the two events were not on the same day.
members of both Houses. Hillary Clinton and Tom Daschle were the Senate "hosts" for the event.
As part and parcel of the MANY events that were happening during the day, ON THE HILL, to include Palast's talk (it wasn't an "emergency meeting" -- where did you even get that nonsense? It was recorded by CSPAN, you can look it up in their archives) , Clinton was scheduled and did speak at a BLACK LEADERSHIP SUMMIT that was attended by some of the guests as well as the members of Congress.
I guess you've never gone to a conference where more than one thing was going on at a time, and you occasionally had to CHOOSE which event you'd attend?
When you're the featured speaker - as HRC was - it's not an option.
The one "presenting falsehoods" is not the person you are criticizing. Cough.
Bernie Sanders has usually voted right, and that's great, but that's his job. And that's not fighting. If he wants to claim the mantle of being a fighter, he should have done more than vote other people's legislation up or down. He has not developed a record or a reputation for being a fighter for African Americans. African Americans aren't stupid. We know who is fighting for us and know this without having to have this "explained" to us by a bunch of white folks whom we don't know and who have never shown any interest in us or in our communities until they tried to bully us into vote for the guy THEY want to be elected.
The fact that African Americans rejected Sanders in such overwhelming numbers last night should tell you something. Among other things, it should tell you that black folks aren't buying the "Bernie's been fighting for civil rights his entire life" and since we're in a much better position to know than you are, you might want to listen to us and stop repeating that meme. It's not working for your guy.
Because, compared to Bernie, she has done squat. You accuse him for not being at the forefront of all the Civil Rights protests, but you KNOW she has never been to ANY. So don't you be talking against him for it.
He marched, he got arrested, and he railed against congress repeatedly throughout his career in support of Civil Rights for ALL people.
Her anti-PoC behaviors are out there for all to see: her support of Welfare Reform, her support of the 1994 Crime Bill ("super predators"
, her racist attacks on Barack Obama in 2008 ("hardworking white people", suggestions of Obama's Muslim status, using photos in Obama in African dress in her campaign), her highhanded dismissiveness of BLM protesters on more than one occasion. This is cold-hearted, arrogant behavior, and you know it.
No one who seriously cares about People of Color could support Hillary over Bernie. No way.
Their records are out there for all to see.
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