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Bernie Sanders’ “Racial Justice Platform” Wins Praise From Black Lives Matter
By: Rmuse - PoliticusUSA
Thursday, August, 13th, 2015, 10:24 am

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It is difficult for a person, or a movement for that matter, to have their voice heard when no-one cares about, or acknowledges, that what the person or movement has to say is relevant. That was likely what incited “activists” identifying with the “Black Lives Matter” movement, official representatives or not, to interrupt Senator Bernie Sanders at Netroots and a rally in Seattle Washington over the past couple of weeks. For the record, the BLM activists also interrupted Democratic presidential candidate Martin O’Malley at Netroots, but it failed to garner the same outrageous reaction from progressives as when Senator Sanders was disrupted.

Obviously, the BLM-associated activists, like African Americans and people of color across the nation, are getting desperate to have their concerns addressed, or even taken seriously, or they would not have felt the need to disrupt a candidate reciting their “fire-em up” speeches. The good news for the BLM movement is that despite the “disgusting reaction” to activists interrupting the populist candidate Sanders, the “disruptions” achieved their desired results, albeit days later, and paid dividends because he came up with a new “racial justice platform” that won him praise from several prominent voices in, that’s right, the BLM movement.

As racial justice platforms go, even though it appears to have taken some pressure from desperate activists, it is beyond dispute that Senator Sanders hit a grand slam; it is no wonder he won praise. Besides a seriously comprehensive platform to address racial injustice, Senator Sanders hired a “young racial justice activist” as his national press secretary; another move that won him praise.

The platform is a multi-faceted approach to combat racial injustice that brilliantly focuses on the many, many forms of violence against people of color in America; physical violence from law enforcement and extremist vigilantes, political violence as a result of voter suppression, the legal violence of the absurd “War on Drugs” and mass incarceration, and Senator Sanders’ special target the “economic violence of crushing poverty.” About the only thing missing was the violence against minority children due to underfunding public schools, but platforms are created to be expanded on.

Senator Sanders did not just make a list to appease people of color or the BLM movement, he presented several proposals to address and combat each form of violence...

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