What is more important: Bernie Sanders or black lives?
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I have seen many threads here over the last couple of days asking us to marginalize, vilify and smear anything having to do with the BLM movement because they picked on poor Bernie...twice.
After BLM disrupted Netroots Nation, Bernie should have been better prepared. Before agreeing to speak at the smaller event celebrating Social Security and Medicare, he should have asked about security. Bernie should have learned from his very recent experience, especially when speaking in a city like Seattle, which is no stranger to protest. His failure to do so, and his very poor response to the BLM activists shows me that Bernie is not ready for the national stage. If he thinks this is as bad as it can get, he needs to take a look at what the Clintons have experienced for the last twenty years. He is nothing more than a fringe candidate. He is not Presidential material.
Of course, there has to be thread after thread here, shooting the messenger, smearing the protesters and the entire movement. They did not treat Bernie with kid gloves, they did not act like he is a demigod. The Bernie supporters here act entirely too much like Fox News or Rush Limbaugh, who hurry in to smear critics and victims alike. They try to dig up dirt on Michael Brown, Sandra Bland, or anyone dead or alive who mounts effective criticism.
I come here to discuss, to get the news, and to learn. I come here to support my candidate, Hillary Clinton. At least that is what I used to do. I have offered some criticisms of Bernie, but I have not vilified him the way Bernie supporters have vilified Hillary. Now, I see threads that have nothing to do with Clinton, where snark is thrown in at any opportunity. It reminds me of going to Amazon to find a book review, or to a movie website, and finding reader comments tearing down liberals, instead of providing information about books and movies. Not long ago, I found nasty comments about liberals on a cooking site. I was looking for new ways to prepare pork tenderloin, people!
I had hoped that this would have died down after a couple of days. Today, of all days, the Bernie supporters should have given it a rest. Today was the anniversary of Michael Brown's shooting in Ferguson. Could you have shown a little respect, just a little?
Some of the most squirelly and paranoid comments are blaming both Sander's disruptions on Hillary Clinton. Somehow, she and her campaign have a plot to disrupt his appearances. Why would they bother, when Clinton is so far ahead in the polls? And they seem to forget that the BLM disrupters are angry, angry people. Why would they allow white Hillary Clinton, or any of her supporters, to tell them what to think, how to act, what do do? They are fighting for their lives! They can think and act for themselves. It is doubly disrespectful to say that they need Hillary to guide them.
I repeat: what is more important, Bernie Sanders or black lives? That is how much you people seem to have simplified things.
Again, it is not Bernie Sanders. It is his supporters, whose behavior grows more incredible by the day. Grow the hell up, Sanders supporters. Get your priorities in order.
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At the Mike Brown memorial anniversary.
https://twitter.com/harrybelafonte/status/630608626307063808
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@harrybelafonte
They let him die. #ferguson
https://twitter.com/SOULSISTACOURT/status/630608963063676928
Vine of cops standing over the dying man. 
on that thread after i posted a link to it. I wouldn't put it past somebody who posts garbage like this thread and who RECS garbage like that hidden thread. 
Bashing Bernie and his supporters.
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