Rapper "Killer Mike" (with 142k twitter followers) likes Bernie Sanders

[Divernan]

2. So much for HRC supporters' "Bernie just appeals to seniors" meme!

As a senior myself, I confess I had never heard of "Killer Mike", but if he's getting interviewed on Bill Maher and has 142 K twitter followers, he has significant impact, and sounds like someone who will influence our disenchanted younger generation to register and vote.
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OK, I just googled his bio and I am now impressed as hell:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killer_Mike

Activism

Killer Mike has given lectures about race relations in the United States at several American universities, including New York University[34] and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[35][36]

Killer Mike is an outspoken social activist focusing on subjects including social equality, police brutality, and systemic racism.[23] His views are reflected in his music, as well as in interviews with the media. As a publicly viewed figure, Mike feels it is his responsibility to represent African-Americans: "I feel I have to be politically active and I have to be a credit to my race."[24] He has been vocal on the subject of police misconduct, his father being a former police officer. His anti-brutality sentiment can be found on the song "Reagan" from his album R.A.P. Music,[25] and the song "Early" on Run the Jewels 2.[26][27]

In response to the 2014 shooting of Michael Brown controversy in Ferguson, Missouri, Killer Mike said "I'm appalled that regular Americans are apathetic. I'm appalled that people choose to use the word 'thug' as a code word for 'n-----.' I'm appalled at everyday citizens... When will we, as an American constituency, tell our politicians enough's enough? Enough mayors supporting murderous police departments. Enough police chiefs having to give excuses for murderous police officers."[28] In an op-ed published in Billboard magazine, Killer Mike stated that "there is no reason that Mike Brown and also Eric Garner are dead today -- except bad policing, excessive force and the hunt-and-capture-prey mentality many thrill-seeking cops have adapted."[29]

Killer Mike and El-P performed at The Ready Room in St. Louis on November 24, 2014, the same night that the Grand Jury verdict was announced stating that Darren Wilson would not be charged with a crime in the shooting of Michael Brown. Killer Mike opened the set, which began about two hours after the announcement was made, with a heartfelt speech.[30] Fan-shot footage of the speech later went viral.[31]

Commenting on the 2015 Baltimore riots related to the death of Freddie Gray, Killer Mike noted that he understood the frustrations leading to violent demonstrations, but encouraged protestors to use their energy to organize for lasting change. In a Billboard op-ed, Killer Mike stated, "For the people of Baltimore -- I don’t criticize rioting because I understand it. But after the fires die down: organize, strategize and mobilize. Like Ferguson, you have an opportunity to start anew. I don’t have a solution because whoever’s there will have to come up with it. But we need community relations: riots are the language of the unheard."[32] He made similar points in an interview with the Harvard Political Review: "Baltimore is an opportunity for us to do something different. As society, there’s a real opportunity to organize there, and if we do not take full advantage of the opportunity to organize, then the riots truly meant nothing."[33]