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In reply to the discussion: it's really fucking simple [View all]pnwmom
(108,977 posts)who came to hear him speak, leaving the audience angry with three black disrupters.
Once he gave them time to make their point and have their minutes of silence -- which he did -- he should've accepted the police offer to have them removed.
That audience didn't come to see Rep. Smith, or the City council member, or the folk singer. They came to see Bernie, and they left angry with the people from Black Lives Matter, because they had to stand out in the hot sun for all that time and STILL didn't get to hear Bernie. Is that really what Bernie wanted?
OTOH, I thought it was great that he opened his LA rally with Black Lives Matter. He's showing some flexibility now that gives me hope he could go the distance as a national candidate.
Our field, small as it is, is infinitely superior to the other party's.