Not Good Enough, Bernie

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127. From an Italian artist's 1865 ceiling painting in the Congress, enslaved African Americans,

to Bernie Sanders associated with racist, riot cops and described as excluding PoC, this is an incoherent, hugely offensive and ineffective piece of work.

Bernie has spoken for decades about the need of rights for all and economic and educational opportunity. He was a SNIC member in college, marched for Civil Rights and was at the Selma memorial event. He's also spoken out forcefully about racism, police brutality and lack of jobs in Baltimore and other places recently, for decades actually. Bernie has plans to strengthen and rebuild this country for the people, not tear it down further to continue enriching the global billionaire investor class.

Bernie Sanders father was a Jewish refuge from Poland where their family died in the Holocaust. He often reminds us of the need to address, no fight poverty and inequality with everything we have, as he knows from growing up very poor in an apt. in NY with a mother who died too young. To associate him with Protestant and Deist, primarily Anglo founders and slave owners like George Washington is a real stretch.

With John Conyers (D-MI) Bernie is currently co-sponsoring the House legislation, "Employ Young Americans Now Act" along with Charlie Rangel (NY), Marcy Kaptur (OH), John Lewis (GA), Eleanor Holmes Norton (DC), Elijah Cummings (MD), Terri Sewell (AL) and Frederica Wilson (FL).

http://conyers.house.gov/index.cfm/2014/9/rep-conyers-senator-sanders-introduce-the-employ-young-americans-now-act

It's brought up here how African slaves built early Washington; black people continued to work in the city after the Civil War emancipation and beyond, as black descendants still in the Washington area and others know well, like the Irish who were early workers also. This heritage is not totally unacknowledged and would be more widely known if people knew any history or had a brain.

Speaking of Washington, the Clintons spent a lot of time in DC, Bill as President for 8 years. How's that working out? His policies like the destruction of Welfare as we know it, forcing millions of black women and children into poverty; the aggressive investment in private for profit prison corporations and increased, harsh crime laws which have incarcerated millions of black and brown men and ruined them, their families and their communities.

Bill worked with Fed Alan Greenspan, Republican con Sen. Phil Gramm, Treasury Sec. Bob Rubin of Citibank and others to sign the disastrous legislation deregulating the banks, the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act of 1999 that repealed Glass-Steagall, FDR's landmark banking reform law of 1933.

The financial loosening of regulation to favor further big bank consolidation and stock speculation via reckless financial products like derivatives led to the subprime mortgage crash and the Financial Crisis of 2008, the worst economic disaster this country has experienced in 75 years.

The Crisis and aftermath enabled theft in the trillions, wealth from homeowners, people who lost jobs, their savings and retirement funds, permanently, many of whom are black and PoC who were particularly preyed upon by the housing/mortgage industry.

And then there's Clinton's 1994's NAFTA "free trade" deal that has resulted in losses of millions of jobs from communities of all backgrounds in the US, forever.~ And Hillary spoke at Howard, wonderful.

What a pseudo attack and faux, outrageous, waste-