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In reply to the discussion: How not to treat your allies [View all]BumRushDaShow
(170,059 posts)because remember, Bernie has been an unknown to most of the black population and Hillary had been coyly politicking for some time before her announcement and obviously had run before in 2008 (so she is a known).
I posted links in this thread where BLM not only went after her, but O'Malley and even Obama, when he was in Selma back in March.
The PROBLEM is that many Bernie supporters ignored or tuned out what BLM was doing to everyone else until they set their sites on Bernie.
Hillary -
http://news.yahoo.com/hillary-clinton-needs-speak-now-why-black-lives-182139453.html
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/dec/17/hillary-clinton-torture-is-wrong-and-yes-black-lives-matter (where this link's event was back last December and the criticism ratcheted up)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/why-hillary-clinton-and-her-rivals-are-struggling-to-grasp-black-lives-matter/2015/07/22/8b5870e8-2f34-11e5-8f36-18d1d501920d_story.html
O'Malley -
http://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2015/07/31/427851451/democratic-candidates-stumble-over-black-lives-matter-movement
Obama -
http://thinkprogress.org/election/2015/03/07/3631178/black-lives-matter-protesters-interrupt-obama-selma/