"Turns out that the African-American community and Latino community were hit especially hard," Sanders said. "As I understand it, the African-American community lost half of their wealth as a result of the Wall Street collapse."

That claim stood out to us. Is it true that black wealth was slashed so dramatically as a result of the financial crisis?

Sanders understood correctly. His campaign referred us to a 2013 report from the National Association of Real Estate Brokers.

"According to the report, African-Americans have lost over half of their wealth since the beginning of the recession through falling homeownership rates and loss of jobs," it reads.

The report refers to Pew Research Center data from 2011 that shows the median net worth of black households decreased by 53 percent from $12,124 in 2005 to $5,677 in 2009. Technically, this loss fits the timeline of the housing crisis in 2006.

Support for Bernie is surging. The youthful wave of grassroots anger at the billionaire class that boosted Bernie in Iowa and New Hampshire has sent the Democratic Party establishment into a panic. Clinton is using her corporate funding, the corporate media, and her establishment ties to launch an all-out mudslinging campaign to derail Sanders. But if we organize and fight back, these dishonest attacks on Sanders will backfire on the establishment!

That’s why #Movement4Bernie is backing the call for an all-out mobilization for February 27th, when Sanders supporters across the country are organizing a second round of Marches for Bernie. The first round of #March4Bernie was a huge success, with thousands marching in dozens of cities. This second wave will be even bigger, and is timed to build momentum leading into the 11-state “Super Tuesday” primaries on March 1st.

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Challenge Clinton and Stop the Republican Right
Many people are excited about the prospect of having our first woman president. But, Hillary Clinton is an entrenched establishment politician who is tied to Wall Street. She voted for the Iraq war and has received millions in donations from big corporations. We can't let the campaign we've built get funneled behind “business as usual” politics.

The billionaires are afraid of us: the corporate-controlled media distorts our message; they reduced the amount of debates, and over 150 prominent Democrats endorsed Clinton while only a handful endorsed Bernie. The Democratic Party leadership is sabotaging Bernie's campaign, not overseeing a fair and democratic election, and we need to fight back. When Clinton and the Democratic Party establishment attack Bernie, we need to be organized to respond with an active campaign across the country and lay the basis for a lasting movement.

Inequality and Racism are Running Rampant
Bernie's campaign has opened up an urgently needed debate about an alternative to capitalism -- democratic socialism.

Just 20 billionaires in the U.S. now have more wealth than the combined wealth of the poorest 50% of Americans. Children should not be living in poverty in the richest country on earth, and millions of people who work every day should not struggle to put a roof over their heads.

This economic insecurity and anger is creating fertile ground for far-right politicians like Trump to whip up racism and anti-immigrant sentiment, dividing working people and distracting us from our common enemy, Wall Street and the big-business politicians who keep us poor. This fuels the racist mass incarceration system, devaluing Black lives and people of color generally. It fuels the attacks on women and their reproductive rights. But it also fuels our determination to build toward a real political alternative for working people.

The Black Panther Party on a national level worked diligently to form coalitions that transcended race under a rubric of class struggle against the US capitalist system. What makes the Illinois chapter of the Panthers so profound is that they were able to reach and exceed the goals set forth by the Party’s founder in a city with much racial strife. There were at least six major racial explosions in the city of Chicago in the 1960s alone. Due to the genius of Bob Lee and Fred Hampton, they were able to build an alliance with the Young Patriots, poor southern white migrants located on the north side in Uptown and many of its members used the confederate flag as its symbol. Bob Lee was able to demonstrate the commonalities of their struggles and the ILBPP had community service programs to solve all the issues that the poor white migrants faced such as: the Free Breakfast Program, the Free Health Clinic, and several others. The Panthers trained the Young Patriots and other poor southern white migrants how to set up and maintain community service programs that benefited their community and thus a coalition between the groups was established setting the stage for the creation of the original Rainbow Coalition.