Charlie Rangel: ‘I Don’t Know Any Black Person Who Knows Bernie Sanders’

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13. There are two items here that I probably should have pointed out so will now.

1. Rangel is being less than honest (and he has endorsed Hillary Clinton).

"And who is Bernie Sanders? Does anybody in the community know him, so that we can find out who he is?’ These are things that we are talking about,” said Rangel, who has endorsed Hillary Clinton.

When pressed about his statement about Sanders, Rangel responded that he is not the one who is asking these questions for Clinton’s primary opponent.

“Not me, but I don’t know any black person who knows Bernie Sanders,” he said."

I don't get why some Hillary Clinton supporters feel the need to diminish Bernie Sanders.

2. Bernie Sanders is a founding member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus (along with Ron Dellums and Maxine Waters) and a member of the Rainbow Coalition and Council on Racial Equality (CORE); Hillary Clinton was not a member of any of these organizations.

Bernie Sanders was a leading member of Jesse Jackson's Rainbow Coalition as well as being a founding member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus along with Ron Dellums and Maxine Waters.

Going back to the 1960s, Sanders was a member of Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) and we know he participated in demonstrations as well.