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In reply to the discussion: ABC This Week: Sen. Bernie Sanders Thinks He'll Win White House [View all]merrily
(45,251 posts)For one thing, I'm willing to bet you have no clue what any of his campaign speeches before this month consisted of.
For another thing, he was one of the first federal officials, if not the first, to speak out after Ferguson.
He not only spoke out immediately after Charleston--from his heart, not some campaign speech disguised as a comment on Charleston, but he immediately emailed his own donors a link to the website of the Charleston Emanuel Church and asked them to donate. That's money that might have gone to him.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/12809672
http://sync.democraticunderground.com/10026743489
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1017210108
http://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/recent-business/nyt-learning-from-the-ferguson-tragedy
And he did not just speak about Ferguson. He and Conyers sponsored a bill to give youth jobs, instead of militarizing the police.
http://crooksandliars.com/2015/06/bernie-sanders-charleston-shootings
http://www.democraticunderground.com/128014859
He's also mentioned it on the campaign trail. I know he did in Colorado because I watched that speech live on CSPAN.
That he's never spoken about racial injustice is not just a half truth, like most of the dishonest crap spewed about him. This one is a foul lie, just as the fact that he never spoke about immigration was a foul lie. Please stop repeating it.
Moreover, his actions for a half century have spoken louder than mere convenient words on a campaign trail.