How not to treat your allies

[JDPriestly]

262. It's one thing to demonstrate, get your point across and try to get change.

It is quite another to disrupt to the point a speaker cannot give a speech. When the latte occurs, it is an attack not just on an idea or a philosophy or even a person, but on the idea of speaking, of political speech itself. That ends democracy. Respecting the rights of others to speak without too much interruption is basic to democracy.

Bernie is a senator. He has supported racial equality and fair treatment all his life. But as long as we have a Republican majority or even close to a Republican majority, there will be no progress on racial equality or even on ending police brutality. Obama is far more responsible for setting the agenda than is Bernie Sanders. Bernie works with the Progressive Caucus, the group pushing the most for legislation to protect Black people. Can't fault him there.

As i have frequently reminded people, Bernie was among the first and possibly the first politician to condemn the use of excessive force by the police in Ferguson.