Why was Bernie Sander's audience at Morehouse College, an HBCU, predominantly White?

[MADem]

187. No--that was not the premise at all, and you might want to do

some of that reading you're snarkily telling me to do in a protected group.

This is the thread title, and there's no "not predominantly black" in there:

Why was Bernie Sander's audience at Morehouse College, an HBCU, predominantly White?



If you know Morehouse--and you don't, I can tell--you would be hard put to find a white face within the confines of that campus and the surrounding environs on a given day if you were given a prize for so doing. I've seen the videos, and the MOREHOUSE MEN (it's a men's school, you see) were in the very distinct minority at that event. They basically loaned their school out for a photo op. That half-filled venue (and it was poorly attended, given the size of the school, and the capacity of the coliseum -- which was half filled) looked like someone knocked over the salt - n- peppa shakers. Had that audience been representative of the campus, you'd have not seen women there, never mind all those white women (were they from Spellman--LOL?) and you would not have seen ANY white people, save Bernie and his wife and most of his staff.

Even the BLACK students in that crowd were bused in--unless you're going to insist that Savannah" is "next door," too (a four hour bus ride "next door&quot ....smh!!!

http://www.tigersroar.com/news/article_9b053a06-d67f-11e5-8825-5713d0b2ba1d.html

Savannah State University (SSU) students traveled to Morehouse College in Atlanta Tuesday night for the ‘Feel the Bern Tour’. In hopes of gaining more minority votes Senator Bernie Sanders launched the tour to travel to 8 historically black colleges and universities.
After about a four hour bus ride the tour bus arrived on Morehouse campus, both anxious and exhausted students prepared to see Sen. Bernie Sanders.
There were a number of vivacious speakers and supporters of Sen. Sanders who graced the stage and shared their personal experiences and praises of the senator. Some of the speakers included actress Jasmine Guy and rapper Killer Mike.

Big finish:

No more than thirty percent of the attendees at Bernie’s Morehouse rally were black. Moreover, about half of them were female. But Morehouse College is 98.3% black and 99.8% male. So no more than fifteen percent of the attendees at the Morehouse rally could have been Morehouse students. In other words, around four thousand white kids appeared out of thin air at an all-black school, in a mostly black neighborhood, in a majority black city. Did they fall out of the sky?

Who are these four thousand white kids? Where did they come from? It’s fair to ask if they were bused in from elsewhere, and if they’re the same white kids who keep appearing at Bernie’s supposedly black-centric rallies across the south. These are the questions that every news outlet in the country should be asking today. In fact the media asked those same questions when Trump was holding curiously large and mostly white rallies in southern black towns. But Bernie continues to get a free pass, because his campaign is still too ratings-friendly for the media to want to poke the obvious holes in it just yet.

http://www.dailynewsbin.com/opinion/bernie-sanders-holds-mostly-white-rally-at-all-black-college/23858/