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comradebillyboy

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8. So what has he done since 1963?

Reply to yerop (Original post)

Sun Aug 18, 2019, 09:39 AM

Aug 2019

Oh yeah he endorsed Jesse Jackson in 1988...

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden

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Shaun King speaks out on Bernie Sanders [View all] yerop Aug 2019 OP

Four or five years later he was living in Vermont which, at the time, was about 96% white. George II Aug 2019 #1

So by your comment, it sounds like if we live a white neighborhood, we don't vsrazdem Aug 2019 #3

Been scratching my head about that comment also nt yerop Aug 2019 #4

That's your conclusion, not mine. The point is that it's virtually impossible to fight... George II Aug 2019 #5

Lol @ "virtually impossible" Hassin Bin Sober Aug 2019 #11

So how does one fight for racial justice from Burlington Vermont in the '60s and 70s? George II Aug 2019 #12

LOL. You aren't really serious are you? vsrazdem Aug 2019 #14

it's bizarre yerop Aug 2019 #19

It's not bizarre. It's pathetic. Hassin Bin Sober Aug 2019 #24

It's not pathetic, it's reality. Note that no one here, not a single one, can say specifically.... George II Aug 2019 #29

So how did he do it from Burlington in the 1960s and 1970s? Anything? George II Aug 2019 #23

There was this more recently... lapucelle Aug 2019 #33

This is simple, list the legislation WRITTEN BY and enacted into law by Bernie as to Eliot Rosewater Aug 2019 #42

Generally speaking, if any politician with a large following in a small state doesn't even show up lapucelle Aug 2019 #43

Glad you said it. Eliot Rosewater Aug 2019 #44

Well, there have been writers who bolstered social justice movements from afar through their essays. lapucelle Aug 2019 #46

They can't miss an opportunity FoxNewsSucks Aug 2019 #10

Yeah I really don't get it. nt UniteFightBack Aug 2019 #16

... Uncle Joe Aug 2019 #26

This message was self-deleted by its author lapucelle Aug 2019 #45

So what? nt UniteFightBack Aug 2019 #6

See posts #1 and #12. George II Aug 2019 #13

I still have the same answer. nt UniteFightBack Aug 2019 #17

Kicked and recommended. Uncle Joe Aug 2019 #2

Bernie Sanders is a good man. nt UniteFightBack Aug 2019 #7

So what has he done since 1963? comradebillyboy Aug 2019 #8

In a Breakfast Club interview: betsuni Aug 2019 #30

Events that occurred 53 years ago comprise the entrety of BS's racial justice lapucelle Aug 2019 #9

I'm surprised at some of these replies. Then again maybe I'm not. I guess any chance to be cynical UniteFightBack Aug 2019 #15

Oh jeez, 1963 again... SidDithers Aug 2019 #18

March on Washington, MLK... Yes THAT 1963. nt yerop Aug 2019 #20

And since then?... SidDithers Aug 2019 #21

+1. dalton99a Aug 2019 #22

Both of whom are proud of their votes for Jill Stein. George II Aug 2019 #27

You forgot this month's BS hire: DrDooleyMD! lapucelle Aug 2019 #32

Well that's disgusting. Agschmid Aug 2019 #47

I wonder why BS didn't campaign at length in Vermont for Christine Hallquist lapucelle Aug 2019 #31

Why? Four numbers: 102, 214, 130 vs. 16. George II Aug 2019 #35

... lapucelle Aug 2019 #37

... lapucelle Aug 2019 #39

Lol, Shaun King. WhiskeyGrinder Aug 2019 #25

Many whites took part in sit-ins. That doesn't mean as near 80yr old they should be prez bobbieinok Aug 2019 #28

My nerdy college in NYC was about 99% white, yet in the late '60s there were sit ins.... George II Aug 2019 #36

Shaun King Vegas Roller Aug 2019 #34

Ah yes...at Jacobin, socialist media mogul Bhaskar Sunkara's little enterprise lapucelle Aug 2019 #38

what is with these people always lecturing others on not being pure enough JI7 Aug 2019 #40

I can't stand the guy.. and I wouldn't be shocked on the Russian angle nini Aug 2019 #41

check out what black twitter JI7 Aug 2019 #48

Oh yea.. that's where I learned the most about him nini Aug 2019 #49

Acts of support for human rights should be respected BlueWI Aug 2019 #50